Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bonnie Hammer

We kind of own - and started - the trend of doing a special event in December. It's great escapism, and people are home and getting tired of the Christmas movies. It's perfect.

Dwight L. Moody

Jesus came from heaven down to earth. He left all grandeur behind Him, He passed by palaces and thrones-to be born in a manger! He was born lowly, that He might raise men up to God. The poor have a friend in Jesus. If no one else loves them, He loves them. He came to give them liberty, to proclaim to them the gospel of God's grace.

Ray Stannard Baker

I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year.

Tom Lehrer

On Christmas day you can't get sore, your fellow man you must adore. There's time to cheat him all the more the other three hundred and sixty-four

Robbie Fowler

If you pray enough for things, I am proof that they can happen. I feel like a kid on Christmas day now, every day. It's something I have wanted for a long time and I am as happy as anyone to be here. It is great to be back at my first love.

N. T. Wright

Christmas is God lighting a candle; and you don't light a candle in a room that's already full of sunlight. You light a candle in a room that's so murky that the candle, when lit, reveals just how bad things really are.

Toby Lenk

Growth has been tremendous. We expect to do about 20 times what we did last Christmas this Christmas.

Malaika Arora Khan

For me, the spirit of Christmas means being happy and giving freely. It's a tradition for all the kids in the family to help mom decorate the tree. Christmas is all about family, eating, drinking and making merry.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

One of my first favorite books was 'The 12 Days of Christmas,' and I would just go up to people and say, 'I can sing 'The 12 Days of Christmas,' and I would make them sit through me reciting it, and I'd go all the way, each time. I've always hooked into lyrics.

Asahi Shimbun

As a result, the food safety of consumers was treated carelessly, raising questions once more about government responsibility.

Carrie Johnson

the wealthy, time-strapped consumers are looking pretty good right now.

Loren Loverde

The timing of the release will have some impact on when consumers buy, but not so much on whether or not they buy.

Scott Mitic

From a legislative perspective it's an interesting time now because the question is whether the federal law will give consumers more power to protect their data or less power to protect their data.

Heather Dougherty

Consumers have spent the weekend with their family and they've been in the stores. They now have a holiday list going. And today is the first day that people are back at work in front of their computers,

Vera Gibbons

Consumers have a lot on their mind ? rising interest rates, a cooling housing market. They're riddled with debt and the holiday season thus far is shaping out to be just okay, not exceptional, not terrible but okay.

John Cole

Consumers don't like high prices, ... That's what they notice at the pump and out of their pocketbook.

Marshall Cohen

Consumers are looking to be able to feel good again. Many lost their valuable luxury products that have an emotional connection. You can't replace your grandmother's earrings but you can find something comparable.

Gina Martin

Consumers are experiencing very strong income gains and that's helping them deal with these gas prices a little better. It's providing quite a cushion.

Dwyane Wade

You all (the media) might have made him mad. I think you all lit a fire under him. He's been playing well the last couple of games. He continued to do it today.

Matthew Parry

Gold continues to rally on continued U.S. dollar weakness, a trend I expect to continue over the next week.

Jason Schenker

Strong continued gross domestic product growth and solid employment gains should fuel further home sales and may mitigate some of the slowing engendered by higher interest rates.

Hiroshi Okuda

I want reforms to be continued without pause.

Thomas Frank

American conservatism depends on its continued dominance and even for its very existence on people never making connections about the world, connections that until recent were treated as obvious or self-evident everywhere on the planet.

Ken Goldstein

The performance of the leading index is suggestive of continued momentum or growth in the spring.

Nicolas Retsinas

We are taking one step forward and two steps back as gentrification in some neighborhoods and continued deterioration in others leads to the removal of vitally needed lower-cost rental housing.

Dennis Powell

We are pleased that the SEC is encouraging continued dialogue around potential ways of using a market instrument to value stock options.

Manfred von Richthofen

We convinced him quickly that the possibility of war was absolutely nil and continued our festivity. On the next day we were ordered to take the field.

Jeff Nobers

Once we get the permits, it's about 120 days to get the store built, stocked and open.

Sherri Coale

After 30 days of practice and three wins now, it was not something I expected. I was very surprised there was a lack of poise from particularly my point guards.

Lora Ho

The sequential decline is mainly due to three fewer working days in February.

Eric Zorn

I've been retired for about four days now.

Ray Visneski

You might get two days off without any snow or ice.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.

Mark Richard

We have approximately 1,800 field personnel working 16-hour days to restore power to all of our customers. Our priority is to restore service not only in a timely manner, but in the safest way possible.

Ricky Craven

The fact is that some days are not your days and some days you get lucky. Over the long haul, that probably evens out.

Albert Pujols

I'm in the gym three to four days a week, depending on how I'm feeling. With chest, legs and back being the most important parts of any athlete's body, I try to train these on separate days with at least a day off in between.

John Hughs

Oil is on everyone's mind. We're expecting a fall in inventories, but instead we get a rise,

Shlomo Yosef

The situation is still serious, but it's stable. All the parameters ... are as expected following this type of surgery. Part of the treatment of the prime minister, in order to preserve low pressure in the skull, is sedation and respiration for at least the next 24 hours.

Laura Bush

is horribly disappointing and the sort of thing I normally expect from left-wingers.

O. Winston Link

I never expected that. I didn't aim for that. All I wanted was to get some nice pictures of trains at night.

Norv Turner

You can't do that and expect to win.

Mike Babcock

We've got veteran, veteran guys. They know what they're supposed to be doing and they just do it. They expect to win. The other thing I like about this team that I like ... when we don't have success, you know we're having success the next night.

Bruce Reichman

We'll have to be as mentally and physically ready as we have been yet this year for this game. But by this time of year, you expect that (from your team).

Khunying Wattanasiritham

We also expect to keep the loan-to-deposit ratio to less than 95 percent.

Joshua Shapiro

Everyone was so focused on the word 'measured' that they didn't expect them to update the rest of the language to be more aggressive, so that took people by surprise a little bit,

James Flecker

A ship, an isle, a sickle moon - / With few but with how splendid stars / The mirrors of the sea are strewn / Between their silver bars.

Marco Polo

At school, a few people know that I'm over here. I don't know about everybody, professors, curling people and a few kids in class.

Rick Woodard

The thing I'd like for us to work on is getting better quality shots. I'd rather us get fewer shots that go in than to take more shots that don't. I'd rather have quality than quantity.

Jan Popa

A few personal photos are OK, but it's pretty hard for people to walk by a wedding picture without looking at it.

Karen Evans

A few of the service providers did not do what they said they were going to do.

Meghan Coward

Sometimes Molly will fly out to L.A. for a few days, raid the gallery scene there, and come back with a list of names and try to lure them down here.

G. H. Hardy

I've tried to get out a few times, but I always seem to come back.

Peter Gallagher

I've noticed a few singing references in the scripts so far, so it's possible,

Michael Redd

Iverson's phenomenal, ... He's one of the few guys in the NBA who's unstoppable.

Bela Lugosi

Death, the final, triumphant lover.

Cameron White

To get to the final would mean everything.

Neil Tovey

There is still a lot of room for improvement. If he works on his final touch he would be able to score many goals because he can position himself very well.

Dorothy Day

The final word is love.

Mikhail Youzhny

I am really happy because I finally won a tournament after two years, ... I had been playing well but, for some reason, I couldn't win a tournament.

Kiaran McLaughlin

She finished second so many times, and I'm glad she finally got a graded stakes win. She's a very good filly.

Jeff Probst

I finally met someone who could teach me about love.

Scott Fawell

George had the final say on all low-digit plates.

Amitabh Bachchan

But I'd rather they take final shape before we talk of them.

Fred Reid

I've got a checklist with 3,200 items on it. At any time, 150 of them are burning.

Joni Pitkanen

Now I know how he wants me to play. This is a big year for me. I want to step up to the next level.

Barbara Kingsolver

The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment.

Susan B. Anthony

I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.

Anja Thiessen

We skipped classes, so we have to get back next week.

Clive James

A lot of my poems are about how ill I am and how I probably won't live beyond next week. I publish a poem and everyone says 'cluck cluck, how wonderful, how brave', but then embarrassingly I'm still here! You see the problem?

Alexander Calder

The next step in sculpture is motion.

Aldous Huxley

The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.

Aldous Huxley

Cleanliness is next to fordliness.

Aldous Huxley

The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.

Toshihiko Sakai

We see the trend of Treasury purchases continuing.

Rachel Johnson

After that I received 74 unsolicited text messages,

Jon Hanson

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

Matt Mullenweg

I spend a lot of time on forums, and they drive me crazy.

Brian Tracy

You cannot save time, but you can spend time differently.

Keanu Reeves

On his new motorbike: I wanted to spend some time with it and get to know it.

Brad Smith

If we need to spend more money, we will spend more money.

Jakob Nielsen

Users spend most of their time on other websites.

Carmen Busquets

I was always into fashion, and used to go on spending sprees when I was a university student in Miami. My father would be furious, but I would always say, 'It was an emergency! I had a party to go to!'

Carmen Busquets

I was always into fashion, and used to go on spending sprees when I was a university student in Miami. My father would be furious, but I would always say, 'It was an emergency! I had a party to go to!'