Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Carpenter

I think it definitely helps me. We're a commodity in today's game.

Steve Donahue

He was a known commodity to a lot of the Indiana schools out there. They shied away because of his size.

Billy Flahive

Gold is a hot commodity now, so more people, especially large hedge funds, are paying attention.

Tom Boustead

It is all fund liquidation, probably commodity-index related. This was a commodity flush-out.

Robert Lutz

I think the American industry has stopped considering (small cars) as commodity vehicles,

Burton

The purpose of the fund is to invest in habit-forming small ticket items which people think they can't live without, ... That turns out to (include) liquor and tobacco. But that's not it. I hate to tell you. The No. 1 habit-forming commodity is toilet paper.

Byron Koste

It isn't like you are replacing something (industrial and office properties) that is a precious commodity at this point. Vacancy rates are still pretty high.

Samuel Gompers

The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce.

Glenn Tilton

other U.S. competitors who provide a commodity product with the barest minimum of service.

Alan Gayle

In general, the twin deficits (trade and federal) will be an ongoing source of volatility in the dollar and interest rates.

Bill Sterling

The guys with the big deficits want to stimulate policy. And the guys with the big surpluses remain very tight. There's only one thing that can give in that situation, and that's currency.

Alan Greenspan

is on an unsustainable path, in which large deficits result in rising interest rates and ever-growing interest payments that augment deficits in future years.

John Spratt

It would put us on a path to endless deficits and a Mount Everest of mountainous debt,

John Higgins

They also failed to save enough money during the good times in the late '90s, when there was plenty of money accumulating in the coffers. Instead of actually sensibly trying to reduce their deficits at that time they simply spent the money,

Scott Anderson

You can't be running record deficits forever without some impact on yields.

Jacob Lew

We have to reduce the burden placed on our economy by years of deficits and debt.

Peter Morici

The outlook remains poor. Production cutbacks at Ford and GM, mediocre personal income growth and record trade deficits all bode poorly for economic growth and jobs creation.

Peter Morici

The outlook remains poor, ... Production cutbacks at Ford and GM, mediocre personal income growth and record trade deficits all bode poorly for economic growth and jobs creation.

James Sullivan

Kids will reach whatever expectation you set for them.

Jim McDonnell

Kids come and they have no expectation that there's anything like that when they're feeding the ducks, ... You can imagine what could occur.

Billy Donovan

I think it probably means something to their players because they understand what they're representing. A lot of times, it's the past players that they know are watching them that gives them a level of expectation of the way they're supposed to perform. I think that's a good thing for a program.

Troy Dolan

I think it may be tougher this year because there are more nerves from the expectation of winning it. I have more motivation to train harder. I never take anything for granted. I like Vitaly. He's a good kid. I'm glad to see him make it here. He'll be a good opponent to have in the finals.

Glenn Caron

I think it's a slam dunk. But knock wood, you know. Everyone seems very happy, so I have every expectation that we'll be here next year.

Thomas Burke

It is a fact of life that the higher you go in public service and the higher your pay is the lower the expectation of privacy.

Rick Comley

I think the nature of Big Ten schools (is) they're not happy just to have programs. You put smiles on people's faces by winning. And the expectation is you do it the right way.

Cass Johnson

I think the expectation is that they will not make much progress today and the US (team) will go home this afternoon.

Ehud Barak

There is no failure, even though the level of expectation is very low.

Warren Buffett

Forecasts usually tell us more of the forecaster than of the forecast

Philip Shaw

In reality, Gordon Brown's forecasts will have to be slashed to around 1.75 percent,

Maury Roos

The forecasts are pretty good ? if we get normal weather henceforth.

Walt McDonald

Considering most forecasts projected mortgage interest rates to gradually rise, this could keep the housing market from taking as much of a breather as we have anticipated,

Brian Jones

Its hard enough forecasting when things are reasonably stable. You have to take all of our forecasts with a grain of salt.

Don Brown

The market is terrific, ... The long range forecasts are still very positive. The Indian is a powerful name, probably the most powerful name in the motorcycle world, other than Harley-Davidson. The question is, after you sell the first 1,000 or 500, will there be an ongoing market?

Joseph Unsworth

They needed to diversify because ... all the long-term forecasts for DRAM are not bright.

Tetsuya Miura

Forecasts were too high because the government spent less than expected.

Arthur C. Clarke

The future is not to be forecast, but created.

Robert Murray

Joy is increased by spreading it to others

Gale Norton

We have vastly increased the amount of funding that is available for conservation partnerships.

Richard DeKaser

I think the market is responding now to a perception of the increased possibility of recession, which I do not see.

Gerhard Schroeder

I think we can say that in the past seven years, we have increased respect in the world for our country, our Germany, and I am sure that we will safeguard that together,

Elizabeth Loftus

Undergraduate fees have increased to $8000 for each year of an undergraduate law course,

Michael Perry

I have not increased rents, period. Maybe I have done them an injustice because I haven't.

Ibrahim Rugova

increased U.S. presence in Kosovo and for more protection on the part of the United States for the people of Kosovo.

Don Logan

The increased scale will provide us with a larger platform to market, sell and rollout new services.

Carol Pryor

And small increments increased the likelihood of problems.

Alex Brown

I think the markets will probably be up,

Alan Levenson

I think they have sent a message that I'm surprised that they wanted to send to the market. I think the markets are seeing the neutral directive and they are saying, 'Well, they're done,' which I think is wrong.

Mary Schapiro

I don't feel any pressure at all to go along with anybody. I feel pressure to do the right thing for U.S. markets and U.S. investors.

David Pursell

The markets will treat it like it's Tyrannosaurus rex, but bigger.

Linda Jay

The markets really are little overdone to the upside.

Felix Boni

The markets here and in the U.S. have been moving in the same direction. Today they're up, and moves in Mexico are stronger.

Robert Metcalfe

The markets for the products are huge. If you can get it right, it's really a market that's infinite.

Andrea Williams

The markets are with him and I think the numbers will be pretty good.

Tim Evans

The markets are bracing for Thursday's DOE reports, with traders cringing since the recent (supply) trends have been bearish.

Russell Ahr

There is an ongoing investigation. This isn't over.

Joschka Fischer

There is an ongoing debate about the reform of the U.N. system.

Saul Alinsky

A free and open society is an ongoing conflict, interrupted periodically by compromises.

Don Lynn

It's not a one-shot deal. It's an ongoing situation.

Dee Miller

It's been just an ongoing process for years.

Leon Morris

The same power that brought Christ back from the dead is operative within those who are Christ’s. The Resurrection is an ongoing thing.

Paul Morley

Music is careful attention paid to ongoing experience.

Marc Maron

Jokes do finish themselves. I really do see them as ongoing conversations about personal themes that I ruminate on.

John Slenker

This has been an ongoing trend for decades. This isn't new. It's been getting more and more intense.

Christopher Murray

Just like in real farming, you want to sell when prices are high.

Tom Crosby

I think we'd better get used to it. I think we're going to see prices roller-coaster like this for a long time.

David Patterson

I think all the prices are crazy. They are just very expensive.

Mike Fitzpatrick

It is not surprising that prices are retreating.

Robert G. Allen

Your network is your net worth. How do you value your network? Well, if you don't value it, cultivate it, nurture it, it becomes worthless. If you do value it, it becomes priceless.

Bob Quinn

By making my own fuel, I can have a stable price and use my own resources in the process. I'm working to do that on my own right now, but on a smaller scale.

Andrew Logan

If prices keep going up quickly, you?re going to see a real shock to the economy.

Richard Taylor

If prices got out of whack and stay out of equilibrium for a long time, then we'd want to know why and we'd go and find out why.

Amy Ryan

I'm out there with a $32 price target on Barnes & Noble,

Simon Fuller

If it were up to me, I'd rather create things that last long-term, but my thrill comes from reflecting what's going on now.

Mike Tollin

He's at a place where he's more honest, reflective and self-effacing.

Bernie Williams

Today is a day to reflect upon our season. The day will come when I will have to make a decision, but that isn't today.

William Whewell

We cannot observe external things without some degree of Thought; nor can we reflect upon our Thoughts, without being influenced in the course of our reflection by the Things which we have observed.

William Shatner

Marriage is a reflection of your life in general: how you treat people, how you argue, how secure you are in your own thoughts. How vehemently do you argue your point of view? With what disdain do you view the other's point of view?

William James

The greatest empiricists among us are only empiricists on reflection: when left to their instincts, they dogmatize like infallible popes.

Rob Bell

Like a mirror, God appears to be more and more a reflection of whoever it is that happens to be talking about God at the moment.

Tracy Kidder

What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people live their lives

Umberto Eco

A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection - not an invitation for hypnosis.

Ken Whisenhunt

I think the big part of it is the quarterback and that tight end's relationship,

Mikael Samuelsson

I just wear tight skates, that's all. It's getting better, for sure. It's better every day.

Brian Young

I'm real tight with all of them...at least I think I am.

Monica Crowley

Once the tentacles of redistributionism wrap themselves tightly around every part of the economy - and around our psyches - they can never be unwound.

Daunte Culpepper

Not try to make mistakes. Just try to be calm, and play winning football. Not just me. Not just the linemen. Not just the backs. Not just the tight ends. Not just the receivers. Everybody.

Brian Bannister

It's really just tight right now. I don't think it's that bad.

Scott Niedermayer

It'll be interesting to see how it is (today). It's tight already.

Robert Conrad

Oh, that character was light years away from me. I'm not debonair. I'm not suave. I did wear tight pants, though, because I found out that it worked.

John Austin

It's a long way to Albuquerque or El Paso. It's not as tight a core.