Famous Quotes & Sayings

Julio Ziegelmann

We're on the eve of the millennium, right between Christmas and New Year's when things should be dead, but liquidity just keeps holding out.

Will Ferrell

The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear!

Saint Augustine

He was created of a mother whom He created. He was carried by hands that He formed. He cried in the manger in wordless infancy. He, the Word, without whom all human eloquence is mute.

W. C. Fields

Christmas at my house is always at least six or seven times more pleasant than anywhere else. We start drinking early. And while everyone else is seeing only one Santa Claus, we'll be seeing six or seven.

William Arthur Ward

Christmas is more than a time of music, merriment and mirth; it is a season of meditation, mangers and miracles. Christmas is more than a time of carols, cards and candy; it is a season of dedication and decision.

William Arthur Ward

Christmas can be the end of emptiness and waywardness; The beginning of happiness and purposefulness.

Wilferd Peterson

Christmas is not in tinsel and lights and outward show. The secret lies in an inner glow. It's lighting a fire inside the heart. Good will and joy a vital part. It's higher thought and a greater plan. It's glorious dream in the soul of man.

Washington Irving

The dance, like most dances after supper, was a merry one; some of the older folks joined in it, and the squire himself figured down several couple with a partner, with whom he affirmed he had danced at every Christmas for nearly half a century.

William Tecumseh Sherman

I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.

Richard Jaffe

We're optimistic for the retail sector this fall. We think that the consumer will come back into stores. July is primarily a clearance month, and we think we have accomplished what had to be done in July, liquidating all the spring merchandise. So, the stores are well positioned,

Sam Allardyce

We've finally got clearance through for Nakata so he can come into the fray if we think it's necessary or when we think it is necessary.

James Johnson

He hasn't got clearance from us to do anything. He can't just arbitrarily decide that he wants to do that.

Jim Bowden

The doctors gave us the go-ahead to sign the player. They understood that it was a four-year deal with significant money. We wanted clearance and to make sure there wasn't a health risk. I would not have done the deal if the doctors didn't clear it.

David Chester

It's been a great day's selling. I may have liked the clearance rate to be a little higher, but over 80% (clearance) is still a wonderful result and a few more of today's passed in (bought back) horses will be sold over the next few days I'm sure.

Steve Fisher

It's still uncertain as we speak. He has been able to do some things that looked fairly impressive. And yet he has still not been given clearance (for games).

John Lawrence

They were very lucky, in that demand was as strong as it was... As we go forward, it's going to be important that we earn those markets back. Not only get the legal clearance to continue imports, but win back the Japanese consumers.

Mark McInnes

That's as you would expect between two great competitors. We had Elle Macpherson counting down and ringing the clearance bell, and they had people scrambling into their store.

John Morris

There is a sense of urgency on the part of retailers, ... The caveat is that a lot of holiday (merchandise) hasn't debuted yet so much of this is fall clearance sales.

Chelsea Clinton

I was always deeply aware that I was living in history.

John Barton

Jake has done a nice job, but all three of our receivers have, but people worry about Jake on the deep ball.

Alan Light

He just digs himself deeper into a hole no matter when he does it.

William Sutton

(There are) so many variables -- the weather, the wave height, how fast the anchoring process goes (and) how quickly we can get rigged and get the Deep Drone in the water.

Van Cliburn

has truly recognized and received my deep love and lifetime devotion.

Carmelo Anthony

Having three, four power forwards out there on our team, being so deep at that position, at this point, it really doesn't matter.

Mark Schmidt

He's a scoring point guard. He can really shoot the ball. He has deep range with his shot. He can play an up-tempo style.

Ernie Accorsi

I think it's a very solid and deep draft. I really think the top of it is very interesting.

Gerard Kemkers

I think it's as deep as you've ever seen. To win, it has to be a perfect race from start to finish.

Gary Crane

Christina stepped up for us. She has been playing well throughout the holidays and has improved for us.

O. Henry

A holiday in a new dress—can earth offer anything more enchanting?

Mindy Kaling

I'm Indian-American and I think that when I think of myself as being culturally Indian, it had so much to do with when I lived with my parents and was a kid because they would take me to the Diwali festivals. They would take me to the temple, and they would teach me about all the different holidays.

Julia Cameron

As a writer, I find holidays often disturbing, not liberating, in their disruption of tempo, their open-ended time.

Paul Engle

I have published in 'The New Yorker,' 'Holiday,' 'Life,' 'Mademoiselle,' 'American Heritage,' 'Horizon,' 'The Ladies Home Journal,' 'The Kenyon Review,' 'The Sewanee Review,' 'Poetry,' 'Botteghe Oscure,' the 'Atlantic Monthly,' 'Harper's.'

Mike Carey

It's not a holiday until you overdo it!

Paul Ford

Being creative and playing with your content during the holidays is a great idea. But straying too far from your fundamental brand (from address, logo, etc.) can be a dangerous game. Your recipients need to be able to recognize you during this busy time of year.

David Berkowitz

So even if we have a very strong season for Internet sales, it doesn't necessarily signal a strong holiday season .

Pope Francis

Workers should have Sundays off because Sunday is for the family. Calling for Sundays to be a holiday.

Marty Heires

We've been told we would get some shipments in December, they would not be dependable, and that in January we would get all we need.

Vita Sackville-West

I do not like January very much. It is too stationary. Not enough happens. I like the evidences of life, and in January there are too few of them.

Charles Bass

Refineries and distributors could have predicted January would be cold, ... There is much more to this than just the cartels.

Angus Campbell

The first week of January is historically a positive week for equities.

Anthony Crescenzi

You're going to get these rallies in dribs and drabs, between now and January

Vijay Dandapani

There are two periods when New York is soft: January and July.

Andi Mallarangeng

When the session resumes on January 25th, we only have three days...that is too short a time to resolve all the issues.

Steve Stirling

Certainly, if you look at it, the month of January is critical.

Jeff Reed

If this was January or February, I would already have 3 to 400 people out here. It's winding down.

Bob Israel

It could be six months before many dealers reopen doors,

Martin Freeman

I think the hardest part about anything you do for 18 months is just keeping yourself together for 18 months.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.

Yann Martel

I did not count the days or the weeks or the months. Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I survived because I forgot even the very notion of time.

Eric Katzman

In the 2-1/2 months that have elapsed there has not been any divestiture news.

John Godina

It has taken six months for me to get past my injuries.

John Burnham

I think October is probably the shakiest month of the year in the stock markets,

Michael Chertoff

I'll tell you something I said a month ago before this (Katrina) happened,

Colin Cooper

I played with a fracture in my foot for seven months without knowing it.