Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gary Dilts

We're looking for September to be a very big clearance month as we end our employee pricing on Oct. 3.

Steve Lyons

We felt it had run its course. We felt it was good for clearance time.

Carlos Queiroz

The most important thing in all this is the player and whether he is totally recovered and ready to play. The final decision to give him clearance should be made by us and the Argentine medical staff.

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.

Shaharyar Khan

We want clearance to have six-day Tests between 15 November and 15 January every year.

Kerry Martin

We haven't gotten clearance to play him (Johnson) yet, but he feels better. There is little to no swelling in his leg. We are optimistic that we'll have him back in a few weeks.

Paul Walsh

Last year the summer season started in late May when temperatures hit the mid-90s. So we've really got a late start to summer. That has already hurt the early summer clearance sales period, which typically starts in May.

Bob Schnorbus

Simply put, if the '03 had high incentives earlier this year before the clearance started, then the '04 are likely to have it sooner rather than later. The automakers want to give the '04 a trial period to see how they move without incentives. But they won't wait long, maybe only a month.

Eivind Reiten

We need regulatory clearance which we do not expect to be a problem.

Michael Gallelli

We've always tried to give consumers what they want, not what we feel they need,

Bill Gates

We're going to gain a lot of share here. We're going to make a lot of consumers happy.

Leo Hindery

would be one of the greatest displacements of high-quality (cable) programming -- one of the rudest things I can ever, ever imagine for consumers in this country.

Kurt Barnard

We found out, from talking to consumers and store operators all over the country, that low-dollar items went very fast. Forget about high-end items.

Jonas Persson

We find consumers very reluctant to pay for new services at all. Corporations are more willing to pay for new services. And from corporations, come consumers who have gotten used to using the services at work.

Scott Hoyt

Year over year, the data shows, this will be the strongest holiday season since 1999. But because consumers have been spending since September, there's not much pent-up demand. Consumers have already spent up demand.

Ken Woods

We're getting people to be consumers of our information. We're telling them what's going to come next and rewarding them as we go on.

Rick Dudley

At a time when rights fees are escalating and sports sponsorship as a first-tier marketing strategy requires greater accountability, it's imperative for marketers to have a tool that can truly help them harness the power of sponsorship to differentiate their brands, grow sales and engage consumers in meaningful ways.

Kurt Barnard

A terrible problem for retailers is that most stores are evoking yawns from consumers, instead of excitement. Retailers just can't keep making the mistake of taking customers for granted by selling ho-hum kind of merchandise. Consumers are looking for unusual and exciting products and they're not finding them.

Clyde Prestowitz

The possibility exists that they would get upset with us at some pint and sell dollars. And if they sold all those dollars right away, the value of the dollar would plummet, interest rates would spike and the U.S. would go into a recession.

Nick Woodman

You don't have to raise millions of dollars to be successful, you just have to work on something you are passionate about.

Charles M. Schulz

I proved to you that psychiatry is an exact science!" "An exact science?!" "Yes, you owe me exactly one hundred and forty-three dollars!

Charles Goodyear

Life should not be estimated exclusively by the standard of dollars and cents.

Ed Whitfield

I'm not a big fan of a lot of government dollars going into research and development for private enterprises... and you're not going to see the House of Representatives, I'm certain, provide a lot of money for research and development for electric vehicles.

Carl Icahn

Anyone that makes me a quarter of a billion dollars, I like.

Earl Weaver

Economics played a role. Raleighs have gone from six fifty to nine dollars a carton, but there's a three-quarter cent coupon on the back. You can get all kinds of things with them, blenders, everything. I saved up enough one time and got Al Bumbry.

Elizabeth Arden

Nothing that costs only a dollar is not worth having.

Benjamin Franklin

Watch the pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves.

Shahab Jalinoos

There are some fears that the post-war U.S. economy still finds it hard to go back into full gear.

David Rosenberg

When you think of all the fiscal and monetary stimulus we've had, we should have the economy growing at 5 or 6 percent. The fact that we're not is the story.

Helen Sharman

The government will see that human spaceflight is useful - for science and the economy - and inspirational.

Doug Porter

We have seen a string of numbers that suggest the U.S. economy is losing some momentum, which really is a perfect environment because it's not as if growth is grinding to a halt.

Stephen Toplis

There is no question the economy is slowing.

William Teets

We're going to do what we can to turn our economy around.

Joseph Battipaglia

What happens with Iraq is very important in January and February to pretty much set the tone for how the economy will fare for the rest of the year. So when we have that answer, then you can get your market direction. In the meantime, you essentially move sideways.

Michael Howard

would be a huge gamble with people's jobs and mortgages, putting the whole economy at risk.

Sung Sohn

We're still losing jobs, but the rate of loss is expected to slow, ... That, hopefully, will be viewed that the economy is starting to improve.

Charles Caleb Colton

Instead of exhibiting talent in the hope that the world would forgive their eccentricities, they have exhibited only their eccentricities, in the hope that the world would give them credit for talent.

Charles Spurgeon

There is nothing little in God; His mercy is like Himself-it is infinite. You cannot measure it. His mercy is so great that it forgives great sins to great sinners, after great lengths of time, and then gives great favours and great privileges, and raises us up to great enjoyments in the great heaven of the great God.

Charles Spurgeon

Repentance will not make you see Christ; but to see Christ will give you repentance.

Charles Spurgeon

Even if I give the whole of my worth to Him, He will find a way to give back to me much more than I gave.

Charles Spurgeon

If you have to give a carnival to get people to come to church, then you will have to keep giving carnivals to keep them coming back.

Charles Spurgeon

God has a way of giving by the cartloads to those who give away by shovelfuls.

Charles Spurgeon

You must either give up your sins or give up all hope of heaven.

Charles Spurgeon

If when I get to heaven the Lord shall say to me, Spurgeon, I want you to preach for all eternity, I would reply, Lord, give me a Bible, that is all I need.

Charles Spurgeon

My soul has learned yet more fully than ever, this day, that there is no satisfaction to be found in earthly things-God alone can give rest to my spirit.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We have measured ourselves by ourselves until the incentive to seek higher plateaus in the things of the Spirit is all but gone.

David Bryant

Some are trapped in boxes of pea-sized Christianity, full of myths about missions that rob them of incentive to care about the unreached

Carlos Slim

When we face our problems, they disappear. So learn from failure and let success be the silent incentive.

Hans Kunnen

With the market buoyant, there is always the incentive to seek capital.

Chris Oynes

They have every incentive to get things restarted.

Yumi Nishimura

There was a string of positive trading incentives today.

Mila Kofman

There's a lot of incentive to leave the money and not use it for medical expense.

Chad Lowe

Any incentive would have been incentive for me to make the film here.

Patrick Murphy

As long as we are doing the job, the Iraqis are going to say, 'The Americans are here,' ... You need to give them the incentive to do it.

Akshay Kumar

Linen is good because it looks trendy and at the same time it's very comfotable

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We have learned to live with unholiness and have come to look upon it as the natural and expected thing.

Chris Adrian

I am...sad and angry. Why is my spirit so sad and angry? I look back at my life and all I can remember is rage and rage and rage.

Chogyam Trungpa

When you are frightened by something, you have to relate with fear, explore why you are frightened, and develop some sense of conviction. You can actually look at fear. Then fear ceases to be the dominant situation that is going to defeat you. Fear can be conquered. You can be free from fear if you realize that fear is not the ogre. You can step on fear, and therefore, you can attain what is known as fearlessness. But that requires that, when you see fear, you smile.

Chita Rivera

I never like the way I look. I don't. I never look at myself.

Edward James Olmos

At the rate we're going, the 21st century looks pretty clear. It's going to be pretty violent

Edward Hirsch

And sometimes you look at the first poems by someone and you go, "They have freshness and a sense of wonder that is never recaptured again by that poet."

Dayo Okeniyi

Denzel Washington is someone I look up to.

David Riesman

Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Studd

Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.

Charles Stross

In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.

Charles Stanley

I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.

Charles Spurgeon

The Lord's people have always been a waiting people.

Charles Spurgeon

People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.

Todd Jones

The teen retailers and some of the specialty retailers were the clear-cut winners.

Shahrukh Khan

I work like a retailer. I sell my services, take my money and keep it in the bank.

Michael Beyard

The retailers want to be on the street now.

David Cook

It's time for big-box retailers to start to do the right things by their employees.

S. Walker

We're not going to do that. I think the retailers would go nuts.

Peter Reynolds

When we have a special event, our sales triple,

Shawn Roop

At first, all I wanted the Web site to do was $50 in sales a day, then $100 -- now I look for $350 a day.

Joel Rassman

The stock sales have nothing to do with the state of the market. It has everything to do with diversification.

Brian Tracy

Resolve to be among the top 20% of salespeople who make 80% of the sales.

Jon Hanson

Token sales have spiked, ... Token use has spiked.

Robert Klein

Fear is the greatest salesman.

Richard Foreman

We really won't see the story until we get into the spring and see the spring sales activity.

Chris Murray

Why do so many salespeople talk to customers about the product and not the result?

Shaojing Tong

I don't see how it will revive sales dramatically.

Dan Hopkins

It must be a slow day around (Democratic) offices.

Erik Jenkins

It's a way of slowing down your truck without using your brakes. You're not stopping a 1,500-pound car, you're stopping an 80,000-pound vehicle.

Erik Jenkins

It's a way of slowing down your truck without using your brakes.

Terry Wilson

The sense is that there has been some slowing of traffic from it.

Clint Hurdle

Sometimes we are going to slow him down a little bit.

Leah Gingrich

(Saturday) I thought I was going slower than I was.

Gene Kitts

That's why this is such a slow process.

Dan Johnson

We're approaching this slowly and methodically. There's a lot of work to be done.

Bob Johnson

(Brady) really wanted to play a slow tempo. But we got some steals and were able to up the tempo (after the first quarter).

Alan Watts

What would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life?

Robert Bach

Americans have been on a multi-year spending spree.

Jason Chaffetz

Federal spending is atrocious.

Bobby Scott

If we increase spending, we have got to raise taxes or any combination.

Raza Jaffrey

Everyone thinks with 'Smash,' because it looks glossy and big, they think they're spending a fortune, and they think it's taking weeks to shoot.

Tom DeLay

To all these new spending requests, I say, 'Mr. President, show me the money,

Dan Cooper

We'll look at the spending cap. We have to look at the legislation that was passed.

Craig Benson

I don't think anyone's pushing for spending limits in the campaign.

Jack Morgan

If they end up spending 4 or 5 weeks there, it won't surprise me.

Eugene Fram

The stores have become a hangout for teen girls.

Elie Tahari

Financially Im comfortable. But life has a lot more in store for me.

David Pearson

Those stores will be in transition over a four-week period. It takes a lot to get these things done.

Chrisette Michele

I like Bloomingdales, and I like a store called Scoop.

Karen Burk

We don't have a listing of stores impacted that we can provide. It's going to vary store by store.

Neil Hamilton

Usually we don't have any vacant stores, ... I think the town is a thriving community. The stores can survive.

James Henderson

I'll play here. I got two stores to go to.

J. Hoover

It will be tough but we have two other stores that are non-smoking and things are going well there.

Oscar Wilde

Don't be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning.

Charles Dickens

Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.

Charles Dickens

From the days when it was always summer in Eden, to these days when it is mostly winter in fallen latitudes, the world of a man has invariably gone one way Charles Darnay's way the way of the love of a woman

Alan Jay Lerner

The winter is forbidden till December, And exits March the second on the dot. By order summer lingers through September In Camelot.

Chris Cleave

We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.

Chris Bosh

If you're not getting better in the summer, you're wasting your time.

Chloe Sevigny

I had always wanted to be an actress. I went to summer theater camp from kindergarten on up until high school, and always had the leads in all the plays - even though they were at the YMCA - but it was something I always wanted to do.

China Mieville

The summer stretched out the daylight as if on a rack. Each moment was drawn out until its anatomy collapsed. Time broke down. The day progressed in an endless sequence of dead moments.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I would come, many years later, to understand why To Kill A Mockingbird is considered an important novel, but when I first read it at 11, I was simply absorbed by the way it evoked the mysteries of childhood, of treasures discovered in trees, and games played with an exotic summer friend.

Edward Hoagland

Summer is when we believe, all of a sudden, that if we just walked out the back door and kept on going long enough and far enough we would reach the Rocky Mountains.

Dick Martin

It's not like there are wrecks or anything like that. It's just that the traffic is not moving.

Bob Campbell

(Developers) don't see the traffic because it's not there yet. But it will be.

David Williams

Right now we have to do this for our residents and we have to do something to alleviate these traffic concerns.

Ryan Seacrest

What it allows me to do is . . . be the traffic cop.

Terry Pratchett

This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic.

Jim Struzzi

Fortunately, traffic was stopped, so no one was injured.

Jim Capaldi

Traffic was very, very free. It was great.

Stacy Pak

How do you get traffic in there? What's the plan?

Moby

Traffic terrifies me.