Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean Claude

I would say that consumers are not pushing enough,

Scott Anderson

Job growth is the main engine for consumer spending.

Wayne Ayers

I think the general message here is that despite the fears about a low savings rate, the consumer continues to hang in there, and that's essentially the only thing that's going to keep the economy on track.

Gerard Kleisterlee

There is a lack of value creation, particularly around consumer electronics,

Carl Gipson

It gets tough when you try to tailor-make a plan for every single person, but at the same time we are paying for things we never use. Right now, it is kind of a one-size-fits-all approach, and from a consumer standpoint, someone who purchases health insurance, that doesn't go a long way in curtailing health-care costs.

David Rosenberg

I think that the U.S. consumer is hot to trot. I think you're looking at a first quarter that's going to easily top 10 percent (in retail sales increase) on an annualized basis.

David Rosenberg

I think that the U.S. consumer is hot to trot, ... I think you're looking at a first quarter that's going to easily top 10 percent (in retail sales increase) on an annualized basis.

Tim Burns

Under Michigan law, unless something was intentionally misrepresented or defective, there's no mandatory right for a consumer to make a return. But if a store posts a return policy, they must follow the terms of the policy.

Katsuhiko Kodama

Had the outcome been better, it would have increased speculation of higher consumer prices immediately ahead, so it seems that investors are taking a weaker reading as a positive.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

Despite spending trillions of dollars and spilling the blood of thousands of Americans, we remain in servitude to Arab oil.

Bill Gray

I think that our offensive line has really started to gel, ... We have three new faces up there on the front line and they haven't played a lot of football. Despite their experience, I think that every time we step on the football field, they get better.

Roseanne Roseanne

I think we're looking at a pretty strong housing market despite the fact that starts didn't rise, ... far from runaway.

Russ Yarworth

He's a very tough worker. Mentally, he's tough, despite what he might tell you. He's got a good feel for the water.

Rupert Lowe

I did not offer to stand down because of Clive Woodward's involvement and there is no suggestion of that happening despite this report. I don't know where this has come from.

Saddam Hussein

help with the legal justification for the use of force ... despite U.S. resistance.

Mike Dubbelde

Our relationship with the parents so far has been great. Despite being a new sport, the fundraising and support has really been there.

Richard Martin

In this regard, Japan stands out as the dominant threat to regional stability, despite its low share of exports as a percentage of GDP.

Willie Green

I know I've been in motor sport for 46 years and some might think it is time I grew up, but I am still here, despite smashing up my legs.

Lee Humphrey

He was big for us tonight. He's been around for five years; he knows how to prepare for games. He knows the right mindset to have, and he stays focused. Tonight he gave us great energy off the bench.

Siobhan Davies

What we do now is to be valued - but we need to do more, so that it's more exciting to other people, and therefore that excitement shines back on us and we're able to have the energy to do more, to widen our creativity.

Ross Gittell

Historically, spikes in energy prices are followed by a recession. The possibility (of a recession) is there; the probability is less than 50 percent, but it's there.

Chelsea Levine

There is energy and it's exciting performing on stage with other people.

Willie Wilson

I thought our guys really did a good job down the stretch. I thought we really played with a lot more energy and a lot more focus and played at a higher level that we need to play with to win in this kind of environment.

Brian Brohm

I think we were up pretty handily and some guys got a little complacent. We didn't have as much energy and didn't execute like we needed to, and that contributed to Kentucky getting back into the game.

Chuck D.

I think we are going to see the push for renewable energy gain a steadily higher profile.

Amber Bacon

I think us losing to JSU was a big wake-up call. ... I honestly don't think that will happen again. I don't think we will lose energy anymore, because that was a big loss and it hurt us really, really bad.

Dan Kammen

It is not a massive savings, not like putting in 10 percent energy and getting out 100 percent. We find it is somewhat better than gasoline, but it's not a home run.

Dave Curry

There is nobody here at all. Ian Thorpe pulling out obviously has a lot higher significance.

Bradley Hunter

When home prices are so much higher than median incomes, it makes for an unhealthy economy.

Josh Bernoff

I thought they would start higher and work their way down. The problem is, you can't go up.

Sarah MacQuiddy

I think we'll have to push the higher ed piece.

Tong Lixin

In South Korea, short-track speed skating is the popular sport, just like the table tennis in China. The level of its young skaters is much higher than the youth in China, where the sport is only practiced in two provinces with about 300 registered skaters.

John Rother

Clearly, the COLA is not going to be enough to offset these higher costs, particularly in heating,

Mitsushige Akino

Higher oil prices and a strengthening yen accelerated selling.

Gregory Klump

In general, the higher end of the market is holding up much better than the lower end.

Ben Shapiro

In Britain, where the social safety net is more like a social swaddling cloth, crime rates other than murder are significantly higher than in the United States.

John Kessel

Kafka is not interested in documenting the manners and mores of any particular place; he is not interested in probing the psyche of individual characters.

Len Lichtenfeld

I suspect that there will be a significant interest in getting better tests into the mainstream.

Lisa Presley

Having kids was the smartest thing I've ever done. They're little sponges who come into the world with a clean, shiny slate and such pureness. I'm interested in having more kids.

Ron Hilliard

He should have a big year. He's been rated by Dennis McCarty as one of the top linemen in the state. Michigan State, Penn State and Rutgers are very interested in Dan.

Adam Cole

I think the market has got too pessimistic on interest rates,

Charles Davis

I think the perception is out there that FOI is a special interest of the press.

Eddie Campbell

I thought about this, I thought these people are ringing me about horror. I don't think I like horror, I don't think I'm interested in horror.

Sufjan Stevens

I think you should be suspicious when there's a lot of interest in what you're doing,

Sean McGowan

The people who are obviously most interested in it obviously went out and did it already. He doesn't even talk about it.

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.

Greg Hymowitz

With rates going higher, I'm staying away from the old-economy stocks.

Lawrence Yun

Obviously, many renters have become homeowners as rates have fallen.

Leon Black

Different industries have different risks and growth rates and volatility.

Bill Gross

It's sort of like a teeter-totter; when interest rates go down, prices go up.

Neal A. Maxwell

The "new" in us is bound to notice the "old" that remains.

Kelly Clarkson

Everything changes, but beauty remains.

George Davis

They're kind of saying that it's going to be OK, but that remains to be seen,

Theodore Dreiser

The true meaning of money yet remains to be popularly explained and comprehended.

Azzedine Alaia

'Vogue' remains while its fashion editors come and go.

Yeardley Smith

Is your remarkably sexist drivel intentional, or just some horrible mistake?

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.

Paul Krugman

Rising inequality isn’t about who has the knowledge; it’s about who has the power.

David Talbot

EFR has incredible leverage to the rising uranium price and its projects have massive potential.

Chinua Achebe

People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.

Ed Balls

The national deficit is not rising.

Carter G. Woodson

The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising in the sphere of production to supply their proportion of the manufacturers and merchants or of going down to the graves of paupers.

Benjamin Banneker

I have no influence with the rising generation. All my arguments have failed to induce them to set bounds to their wants.

Robert Herrick

Fair daffodils, we weep to see You haste away so soon: As yet the early-rising sun Has not attained his noon.

Steven Strogatz

The frequencies of the notes in a scale—do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti, do—sound to us like they’re rising in equal steps. But objectively their vibrational frequencies are rising by equal multiples. We perceive pitch logarithmically.