Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wole Soyinka

The problem with literature, with writing, is that it works sometimes in terms of correction of social ills. Other times, it just does not suffice.

Ian Shepherdson

July sales always looked unsustainably high relative to the level of mortgage applications so a correction was due. This drop in sales does not mark the start of a sustained weakening.

Marshall Acuff

It feels uncomfortable. It is uneasy. We're not used to this situation in the market. But, after all, this is the much-awaited correction that many people have been looking for in recent years.

David Shulman

My sense is the next correction will be serious.

Patricia Chadwick

I don't think we're in a correction but I think we're in a very necessary leveling off period. A correction is probably over 10 percent down from the current levels and I don't think there's any reason for us to see that, but I do think given that the fact that the markets went up 7 or 8 percent in less than two months of the new year that we have to have perhaps have a couple of months time when the market doesn't go anywhere.

Allen Sinai

For the U.S., the correction is essentially over.

Kazunori Jinnai

What we have been seeing today and yesterday is a rather normal correction after the nearly vertical rise in high-tech shares in recent sessions. Investors will be taking refuge in other sectors until high-tech stocks find a floor.

Peter Grandich

Gold's momentum is likely to take it to either side of $600, but then a serious correction is likely to unfold.

David Jones

Jobs cuts tend to lag the process. You've had an inventory correction (that) may be getting near the end, you still have to superimposed investment boom/bust cycle that has been taking place, and there's still a process squeeze.

Warren Buffett

The policies that we're following are likely to lead to a weaker dollar over a long period of years. It's not a forecast for next week, or next month or even next year.

David H. Murdock

If someone paid me a million dollars to drink a glass of milk, I wouldn't do it; maybe that's because I don't need the money.

David Malpass

I don't want to see the dollar strong because the rest of the world is crumbling. I would like to see the dollar strong because the Fed has said it wants it to be strong in the future.

David Malpass

If stocks double but the dollar loses half its value, who beyond Wall Street are the winners and losers?

Chuck Schumer

The vast majority of the people employed by Wall Street are the secretary who goes in to work on the Long Island Rail Road, who makes fifty, sixty, seventy thousand dollars a year.

Regina Brett

If no one shopped on Thanksgiving Day, the stores wouldn't open. End of story. I say we all take the pledge and stay home. Thanksgiving is a day to give thanks for what you have, not to save a few dollars to get more.

Carl Sagan

You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.

Mark Bryant

The 2 mill increase translates into a dollar increase of nearly $1.2 million,

Peter Greene

The 2003 rally was on low interest rates and a weak dollar. Now, that's changed. The dollar bottomed in February, and I think people are realizing what higher rates are going to mean for the stock market.

Phil Gardner

We haven't seen a labor market this strong since prior to January 2001. This is a significant gain.

John Ruiz

New Year's resolutions are quite prevalent in January but usually non-existent after the Super Bowl.

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.

I. Stone

If only all that January rain had been snow.

Paul Alderete

We're still in the process of doing enrollment projections for next year. When the projections are completed, we'll know how many portables should go in and when and where they'll go in by January or February.

Vijay Dandapani

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

David Boies

Was that your view on January 6, 1999?

Cheryl Brom

We start getting them about spring when it warms up. It's rare for us to get them in January and February, but the winter's been warm, and we're getting them a little earlier.

Carol Simon

Our catered events, not just weddings, but anniversaries and different types of parties are very strong in January and February.

Anthony Chan

The overall trend is that we're making progress,

Peter Morgan

The overall trend is still that the recovery is weak. I wouldn't say that this is a turnaround yet.

Greg Aiello

We're very pleased with the overall state of our officiating.

David Cohen

Manufacturing is picking up in the second half. Pharmaceuticals can be enormously volatile, but overall they are on an uptrend.

Pat Summitt

I think overall Candace had a solid game, ... I was pleased with her defense.

Austin Eguavoen

I was satisfied with my team's overall performance.

John Collins

I think in some ways those conversations, as well as our overall conversations of the organization and how to make it better, may have spun some rumors out that essentially were tagged to the GM.

Jan Dijkwel

I think it's an overall educational experience. We are now in a society where everything is communicated on a two-dimensional platform, like the big screen, television and even reading.

Chere' Moore

We swam some very smart races Thursday and overall I'm pleased with the whole team effort.

Neal Asher

I have had periods when I've overused a word, 'candent' being one example, but I'm trying not to do that any more.

Russell Smith

Periods of nostalgia are impossible to predict or explain.

Susan Rice

We have come a very long way in a very short period of time,

F. Stone

We need to play three periods tomorrow like we played the first one tonight.

John Clare

We're all in this together for some period of time,

Mahela Jayawardene

We know it is a period that we have to rebuild.

Jessica Brown Findlay

You don't automatically assume everyone will fall for a period drama.

Jessica Szohr

You do a film for a short time period - you put it all out there and move on.

Holliday Grainger

When I was younger, I was always being told I had a period face, but 'Bel Ami' was my first shot at it.

Indiana Evans

You have to remember I've been working with adults since I was 12 - they were my peers, and it has an effect, for sure.

William McNamara

I knew I would be an actor since I was seven or eight.

Bikram Choudhury

Most researchers sit at a table and read books. My research, since three years old, has been to use my own body.

Alice Walker

Since the time of the witch burnings, the grandmothers and the healers and the midwives have been systematically targeted. And burned at the stake for hundreds of years, decimating whole communities.

Alice Walker

I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it.

Nicolaus Copernicus

The earth also is spherical, since it presses upon its center from every direction.

Reid Scott

I've been a diehard fan of 'The Simpsons' since I was a kid.

Robert Zoellick

Since I came to the World Bank in 2007, I have argued that we must 'modernize multilateralism.'

Pat Nixon

I have made my own decisions ever since my father died.

Donald Trump

We need a president with tremendous intelligence, smarts, cunning, strength and stamina.

Robert Kiyosaki

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

Mauricio Botelho

We have a long-term plan, and we won't let the strength of the real take us away from that.

Mike Phelan

Winchester is always strong at doubles. They don't really have any superstars, but they have strength up and down the lineup.

Francis Bacon

Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he groweth out of use

William Shakespeare

The king's name is a tower of strength.

Nelson Gonzalez

We know our strengths and know our weaknesses and one of our weaknesses has been supply chain.

William Shakespeare

He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.

Thomas Grandi

I would have to say a combination of the two. We've got strength and we've got stamina.

Tommy Mottola

I've always viewed myself as a behind-the-scenes person rather than in front of the camera.

Steve-O

The idea is to improve somebody's day. That's how I've always viewed my job. I'm a distraction therapist. I make people's problems go away for just a little bit.

Robert Reischauer

This has to be viewed with some skepticism,