Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Giles

Jordan probably hasn't scored 19 points in all his games combined this season. He did a good job tonight.

Chris Antonetti

I think it's more of a question of timing. The timing of his development, combined with the development of our team, didn't align.

Tony Crescenzi

Greenspan's confidence in the predictive value of gold (as an inflation indicator) might be high enough that, when combined with other critical predictors . . . could push Greenspan to either hawkish words or action,

Paul Niven

Historically, peaks in the U.S. rate cycle combined with rising equity volatility and a moderation in earnings momentum all signal U.S. equity performance.

Richard Morgan

It is a great tribute to the hard work of the girls combined with dedicated teachers and tutors.

Ron Mayert

With more than 25 years of combined pet food manufacturing knowledge, we've made it our No. 1 goal to produce products that are, first and foremost, the healthiest pet foods on the market.

Paul Fitzhenry

We think between what's in our current pipeline and what we hope is going to be on the market over the next few years, combined with the savings we are going to realize from our efficiency initiation, that we will meet our growth target for the longer term.

Gina Nolan

I thought our defense was the key for us tonight. We talked about that before the game. We knew that was going to be the key for us. The last time we played them, (Kate) Norton and (Melissa) Olsen combined for 25 points.

Daniel Rosensweig

I think what will win out in the end is good quality, credible content, combined with great services ... and commerce opportunities.

Barbara Boxer

I would tell her to do everything she could to spare other families this grief, to get us off this cycle of violence.

Mike McCrary

There are so many good restaurants now that it leaves an economic opportunity. When everything goes upscale, you also need a layer of family dining, lower-scale ... This is an upward cycle, where up until three years ago it was a downward cycle in a big way." ()

Richard Bernstein

History suggests that the most powerful factor influencing the profit cycle is pricing power.

Eric Chen

I think the cycle going forward is going to be more muted, or modest. I think 2005 was a good reflection of that.

Victor Lazarovici

We're in the midst of one of the greatest mining cycles we've seen in decades.

Dr. Schwemer

I think we're all sensitive to those changes. We're much more tightly tied to the cycles of the Earth and the universe than we like to admit.

Jim Paulsen

It gives you the sense that maybe this earnings cycle is going to be like the rest, where it starts out like it's going to be terrible and it ends up looking good, ... That's been the pattern for eight quarters.

John Challenger

We may well have reached the peak of the economic cycle earlier in the year.

Peter Watkins

I'd like to get that cycle time to less than six hours,

Linda Duessel

I would say that for the next several weeks, earnings and the earnings outlook probably will be the most important things weighing on us.

John Chambers

I would summarize the quarter as a solid quarter from a revenue and earnings per share perspective and a strong quarter from an orders perspective.

Andrew Barrett

I think investors should be focused on several key areas, because at the end of the day you really want to be focused on earnings momentum,

John Davidson

There are some worries about will the earnings this year support the 2-1/2 year highs that the indexes have recently reached, particularly in an environment where interest rates will be rising.

Sarat Sethi

I think it's going to be a quiet week heading into the long weekend. Through the summer, people are going to be focusing on the next earnings period, monetary policy, and if we are going to see more strong economic growth, as well as payrolls.

Michael Sheldon

I think the last few weeks have probably been frustrating for investors. Earnings have been very positive, but the focus has been on interest rates. Over the next few sessions, it looks like the fear of higher interest rates will probably outweigh the earnings.

Robert Froehlich

I think the key is going to be earnings now. We're really getting into full swing with earnings, and I think earnings are going to surprise on the high side.

Barry Hyman

I think the picture is optimistic and earnings in general have been better than expected.

Peter Mancuso

I think you're looking out two quarters, maybe even three quarters before you start to see a substantive increase in earnings for some of these companies. That, to me, is in a nutshell what's going on in the markets.

William Sullivan

The only thing that can take yields down is a total retreat in equity prices.

Robert Kraft

His sense of equity and fairness would be very helpful now.

Kevin Tynan

His motivation was to unlock that equity in GMAC. Rumor has it that it's not going well.

Hans Johnson

I thought what we would find was that it was only people who had equity or very high incomes who were getting into the market. But that's simply not true.

Anthony Chan

I think the big jump in Japan gives a nice tail wind to the equity markets this morning.

Peter Deutsch

Investigating what's happened in the equity markets is not a waste of time, but spending 90 percent of our resources on Martha Stewart is not an appropriate allocation of resources.

Richard Bernstein

If you're in the equity market, you want to focus on the largest cap, highest quality companies,

Craig Moffett

Clearly, private equity investors see that that the glass if half-full here.

Richard Bove

In general, this should be a mixed quarter. Clearly, M&A is strong but the IPO market has slowed down, the equity market is weakening and the fixed income market is limping along.

Sandy Gallin

I love collections of things, but always in moderation.

Virginia Woolf

All extremes are dangerous.

W. S. Gilbert

I see no objection to stoutness, in moderation.

Stephen LaDue

You will see a moderation in some markets.

Ellen Glasgow

Moderation has never yet engineered an explosion

Ozzy Osbourne

I can't do anything in moderation.

Oscar Wilde

Be moderate in all things, including moderation.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Moderation in all things, especially moderation.

Fernando Pisani

Just one of those things. We'll just try and ride that momentum.

Andy Schulz

I thought you saw the momentum swing once we got the lead. That was a big factor.

Dana Berliner

There is going to be a mega-debate. The momentum toward legislative reform is very strong.

Steve Marks

I think we have a better than even chance. We've got momentum on our side.

Takenori Kanzaki

I think we have the momentum to get a majority, and I want to keep up this momentum right to the end.

Nick Saban

I think that was really probably the turning point of the game, that we could recapture the momentum and come right back and make a big play and score and keep them three scores behind,

Satoru Iwata

With the DS and Wii, following the titles that were released at launch, the momentum dropped when there was a gap in software releases. We're making plans so that this type of thing won't happen.

Robert M. Pirsig

Now the stream of our common consciousness seems to be obliterating its own banks, losing its central direction and purpose, flooding the lowlands, disconnecting and isolating the highlands and to no particular purpose other than the wasteful fulfillment of its own internal momentum

Yuri Milner

There is a significant momentum behind the social Internet. A wide range of public investors were very enthusiastic about that.

Jeff Tedford

He doesn't go through the peaks and valleys that some people would. He just has an easy-going attitude.

Roberto Benigni

I think that sometimes only comedians can reach the peaks of tragedy.

Jeff VandeLoo

We've been pretty consistent. We've played pretty well all year without having a lot of peaks and valleys, which has been encouraging.

Russ Jones

Our rates only go up once a year, and that's in June.

John Seabrook

In the nineteen-eighties, rates of obesity started to rise sharply in the U.S. and around the world. By the nineteen-nineties, obesity reached epidemic proportions.

Michael Stipe

The future's ours, and you don't even rate a footnote now

Richard Bernstein

At the rate it's going right now, profitability will accelerate, but at a very, very slow pace, ... much slower than what's implied by valuation in the market.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

I've always held that early marriage is a sure indication of second-rate goods that had to be sold in a hurry." - Martin Harris

Jamie Rappaport

An astonishing success rate of more than 99 percent.

Scott Berry

And as rates go higher, that should go higher, too.

Mark Kantrowitz

It's a no-brainer at this point. You want to consolidate before rates rise,

Robert Brusca

It's a surprise -- we thought the unemployment rate would be edging up.

Robert Mitchell

I think it smells good, like rising bread, but some don't like it,

William Beveridge

There is no inherent mechanism in our present system which can with certainty prevent competitive sectional bargaining for wages from setting up a vicious spiral of rising prices under full employment.

Robert Owen

To train and educate the rising generation will at all times be the first object of society, to which every other will be subordinate.

Walter Wriston

Rising prices or wages do not cause inflation; they only report it. They represent an essential form of economic speech, sincemoney isjust another form of information.

John Carioba

It's rising more on New York than anything else.

John Green

It felt like everything was rising up in me, like I was drowning in this weirdly painful joy, but I couldn't say it back. I just looked at him and let him look at me until he nodded, lips pursed and turned away, placing the side of his head against the window.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Freedom only comes through persistent revolt, through persistent agitation, through persistently rising up against the system of evil.

Plutarch

Pompey bade Sylla recollect that more worshipped the rising than the setting sun.

Terence McKenna

This rising global humanism is, in fact, the rising into consciousness of a tribal god similar to the kind of tribal god that functioned in these pre-Hellenic societies.

Rachel Cohn

I've given him more mixed signals than a dyslexic Morse code operator.

Joss Whedon

Can't stop the signal

Bill Bavasi

This does not signal the end for Michael.

David Gill

They're called signal lights. They are kind of provocative because they are always telling you something.

Carlos Ghosn

We are facing extreme volatility.