Famous Quotes & Sayings

The overall picture in August as indicated by growth in production, new orders, and backlog of orders is one of continued growth in manufacturing activity,

The path of the unemployment rate is the key to the timing of the Fed's initial tightening move. In our view, the Fed won't tighten until August at the soonest.

Leonard Boswell

The 9/11 Commission recently released their report, citing important changes which need to be made to improve our nation's homeland security. I voiced my disappointment with the House leadership when this report was left until after the August recess for action.

We'll probably ship systems in late August or September.

We're very pleased with the way the class has pulled together. It's a situation where we feel we filled the needs that we have. I think it's a good class. I can't wait for the 'coaches Christmas' in August when it all unfolds for you.

We're up 10 percent from the recent bottom, and that's a big bump in a month. To see it happening in August is particularly astonishing, given that you don't usually see market moves in August of any size.

With the growing season coming to an end, most observers believe that the South American crop will be record large, with more uncertainty about the Argentine crop than the Brazilian crop. U.S. soybean oil stocks at the end of the most recent reporting month--January 2006--were estimated at 2.477 billion pounds, nearly 60 percent larger than stocks of a year ago. Stocks were at the highest level since August 2002.

Yevgeny Primakov

It is essential to do everything to prevent the August 17 statement ... from leading to dangerous socioeconomic consequences,

Kyle Petty

The problem isn't necessarily the driver signing a contract in August of 2005 to race for another team in 2007,

We are in the summer doldrums. Once we get into September, markets will probably rally because the fundamentals are strong but August tends to be a time of light trading.

I think Mr. (Federal Reserve Chairman Alan) Greenspan is partially responsible for the latest decline in the market, because in his last testimony, he said something that was quite important, and I think he gave a wake-up call to the market. He said that they were - they had not made a decision yet about the August interest rates.

We're all out there in August beating the bushes, and the voters are still at the beach.

We have to save the water we have for the time being. The Charles, for all intents and purposes, is 100 percent wastewater in August and September because we've pumped our aquifers so low.

We hope to break ground in late June and our goal is to have the school set to open in August 2007.

You do feel this incredible spirit in this woman. It's a wonderful little window on an individual story that you would never have seen on television in August or September.

Al Groh

We don't have Pawtucket, ... There's a lot of catching up to do with Ahmad's game, things he hasn't done since August 5 to polish and improve his game.

It was in August or September of 1995 that I met Diana, Princess of Wales. Diana and I met through Oonagh Toffolo, whose husband was recovering from heart surgery at the Royal Brompton. At the time, I was working for Professor Yacoub, the heart surgeon, and Mr. Toffolo was one of his patients, so I was involved in his medical treatment and care.

We are pleased that local consumption has increased from 5% to 25% since August 2004.

But August stands apart. He has his special way of seeing things. I remember he and I were at one of those fancy benefits the Rep has. The gay men's chorus was singing, and I was very proud to have brought them into a Rep event. And August says, 'You know, I don't see any black people up there.' That was his focus: the lives of black people.

If I remember correctly, it was a day in late August and it was about 85 - 85 and sunny.

Futures are pointing up a little bit. I think we will see a typical August Friday: Low volume and no economic data. I think we will see some winding and grinding for most of the day.

Fundamentally, the economy has not slowed as investors had hoped or the Fed requires. It puts a tightening in August back on the table.

Today focus will be on the US inventory data, with gasoline stocks expected to have fallen by 1.9 million barrels in the week to August 5 as refineries struggle to avoid breakdowns and meet demand,

What you really have to do is average the two months together. And when you do that, you come up with an average growth of around 15,000 jobs per month, which is slower than normal. I didn't expect it to be this low in August and September.

What we have failed to realize is the terrorists showed us on 9/11 that we are vulnerable. And Katrina showed us here in late August and September that we are still a very vulnerable society--and the most vulnerable part of the population ends up without the lifeboat.

Chuck LaMar

Having said that, we saw him play the latter part of August and thought he had had enough. He had already gone from Double-A to Triple-A and we thought it was time for him to go home and get ready to play winter ball if he wanted to, or if not, get ready for spring training.

I talked about salary with a company last week, and they were paying between $30 and $35 an hour. In August I was making $45 an hour.

Peter Greene

I think it's going to continue to be a sideways market in August and into September. Seasonally, there's the tendency for selling, but as of now, there aren't any big events on tap that could take us a lot higher or a lot lower.

Marcus Aurelius

It certainly is uncomfortable for everybody. It's somewhat of an anomaly. We're still in August but temperatures like this are uncommon.

Barry Ritholtz

We've been up for so long since May, two or three weeks of weakness is not a big deal. I wouldn't be surprised if we saw the doldrums of August lead to a nervous September, and that's how we create good buying opportunities.

Charles Dutton

What I learned as an actor was the only way you could really do August Wilson's work, you had to leave an ounce of your essence on that stage, ... Otherwise it was impossible.

He just said that if you looked down several months out into the future and you reach a point in August or September or October where we might want to deploy ground troops, what is the type of planning timeframe that would be necessary in order to position NATO to do that,

Steve Spurrier

He is real sensitive to some of his colleagues in college, when a lot of people are saying he's going to get this job or that job. He doesn't want to be out there in August talking about that.