Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fred Wilson

When there were not very many Internet companies, the supply of Internet companies to the market was small and the appetite for them was large. Therefore, if you were in the business of creating Internet companies in 1996-98, you had a market that provided massive demand for that.

With all due respect to the Indians, I'm not sure there's an insatiable appetite for Indians programming and nothing else.

There just has not been any appetite for corporate debt and corporate bonds.

There is typically a bounce in such purchases and if this proves subdued this year, many investors will conclude that a stronger Japanese economy and rising bond yields has moderated Japanese investor appetite for foreign assets. This scenario would see the yen a lot firmer.

There's an old saying that the only sure things in life are death and taxes. Well, in its never-ending appetite for more of your hard-earned income, the government has not only embraced that old saying, it's taken it a step further. Under the current tax code, Uncle Sam treats death as another chance to raid your savings, taking money that should go to your family and loved ones.

There's an excess of capital in the venture industry, and the only way to produce superior returns is to do stuff that nobody else has the appetite or capability to do.

Joanna Lumley

There's an appetite for vigour in films. The camera loves a bit of movement. Movement is usually attached to younger people and men, and that's just the way it is. I think that it's a bitter pill to swallow, but it's a fact that there aren't going to be masses and masses of roles for older women because there isn't the audience for it.

There's an appetite for tax reform. Until you see what it is.

A strong baht must, all else being the same, reduce BOT appetite when it comes to interest rate increases.

Society is composed of two great classes: those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners

Alain Resnais

That's easy to answer: I never had any special appetite for filmmaking, but you have to make a living and it is miraculous to earn a living working in film.

The bid-to-cover improved a lot, reflecting a reasonable appetite for the two-year notes.

The biggest incentive for investors to buy stocks right now is optimism for sustained economic growth. The kind of appetite we're seeing from investors right now won't end easily.

The auction also showed that foreign appetite for our securities remain voracious, which in itself is another positive sign.

Consumers have an insatiable appetite for celebrity news. It's pretty amazing.

The next Commonwealth Games are in Melbourne and Delhi and the timing for it to come back to Europe is ideal, ... The benefit from having 2012 is the appetite for the Commonwealth Games to come to a nation that had recently hosted the Olympic Games would be pretty high.

Foreigners love U.S. assets, ... just broad-based appetite for dollar assets.

For example, in Homer's day, sexual satisfaction was equal to the satisfaction of one's appetite for food today. They lived to a point where pleasure was taken to a very high degree ? there was no limit ? wine was the best and food was the best. And that's where we get that idea of classic beauty. Helen had the face that launched 1,000 ships. Her physical beauty had pushed the envelope to the nth degree.

I'm glad that we have a big appetite. They don't easily get satisfied. Hopefully we can defend it.

I left the Olympics still on my appetite to win. I was disappointed with my performance at these last Games but I've remained focused on concluding this season on a positive and strong note.

There was an appetite and sometimes you don't want to miss out on that when there is that appetite, if you're in a rebound kind of year. Universal was left a little flat-footed because they did their big Revenge of the Mummy rollout the year before.

A continued decline in U.S. equity purchases will be a telling sign of foreign appetite for U.S. securities, and the future path of the dollar.

That may raise the obvious question of whether there's an insatiable appetite on the part of the county commission to raise as much money as they can at any point in time. Even if they can't spend it now, they can build up rainy-day funds, or they can bankroll for some major project down the line. I don't think there's going to be tremendous public support for that.

The U.S. market's rise triggered the rally. Our stocks have been raring to rise for a while. Nobody has appetite to sell right now, but nobody wants to build up big positions either.

The U.S. economy is doing quite well. There is an appetite for dollars.

O. J. Simpson

The venture industry is notorious for chasing the flavor of the day. There's currently not a huge appetite for paying big bucks for emerging tech companies.

Seamus Heaney

I don't do as many readings as I used to. There was a time when I was on the road a lot more, at home in Ireland, in Britain, in Canada and the States, a time when I had more stamina and appetite for it.

Anthony Romero

The president needs to rein in -- not bolster -- the attorney general's insatiable appetite for new and unnecessary spying powers,

John Smith

There is still a good chance because I see a growing appetite to do something but I also feel like the Legislature is looking for something in the middle.

There doesn't seem to be any medical reason for it. He just seemed to lose his appetite.

Ultimately, which process you choose will depend on the appetite for risk at a company. We've seen both ends of the spectrum. A lot of initial projects people take on are because it solves problems that couldn't be solved before or are not really achievable with alternative technology.

There is so far an insatiable appetite for holding more inventory. We're still not recognizing it as a glut.

Richard Kind

What's difficult with doing 'The Producers' is your appetite is enormous. You want money; you want boards; you have huge desires. You've got to want more than anything for two and a half hours. Everything is heightened.