Famous Quotes & Sayings

I believe it's gonna be one of those years where you could be 6-2 and be the Big Ten champion. I've said this since August at the Big Ten media luncheon. I think it's gonna be a very balanced, competitive year.

I don't want to be sitting here in August and telling parents that they'll have to pay the fees in September. We should figure this out now.

Our counterparts from NASA will visit us late August or early September, and we will then discuss what services Russia can provide to deliver cargoes and crews, and on what terms.

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,

Luke Harding

By August 2008, we had left Voikovskaya and moved into a wooden dacha in the artists' colony of Sokol in north-west Moscow. The house was a haven amid the madness of the city: lily of the valley grew near our front gate, Virginia creeper decked the green picket fence.

Billy Porter

I grew up when one of America's greatest black playwrights, August Wilson, was writing about life in Pittsburgh, but I never saw myself in any of his straight-male plays. And then I see 'Angels,' which was so honest and painful, and it had this black drag queen in it, Belize, with a big heart. I finally had a character to relate to.

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.

We are looking at that. There is certainly no simple way when you look at the time line. This regulation expires in August 2007. We are going to have to do something because we will have to come to the commission in January. The regulation doesn't come into effect until September.

Wolfgang Paul

I was born on August 10, 1913, in Lorenzkirch, a small village in Saxony, as the fourth child of Theodor and Elisabeth Paul, nee Ruppel. All in all, we were six children. Both parents were descendants from Lutheran ministers in several generations.

Gore Vidal

In August 1961, I visited President Kennedy at Hyannis Port. The Berlin Wall was going up, and he was about to begin a huge military buildup - reluctantly, or so he said, as he puffed on a cigar liberated by a friend from Castro's Cuba.

Richard Norton Smith

I was 14 years old in August of 1968 and had earned the money and had managed to get tickets as a guest of the Massachusetts delegation to the Republican convention in Miami and where I was on the floor in the Rockefeller demonstrations.

We had all these famous writers in Sweden and from all over the world home at dinner. I wanted to be a writer, and I wanted to be a highbrow writer as my father. He never, ever read anything like crime novels. He wrote biographies of Dante, James Joyce, August Strindberg and Joseph Conrad.

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.

The real short-term outlook for us is pretty positive given that we don't see a Fed rate hike in August and that due to political noise, if you will, we are not going to see a rate hike in October. But on the earnings front it is a different issue. Looking into 2000, our longer-term forecast, we've had two great years of earnings growth. We think it is going to be pretty difficult to show up with another year of 30-to-40 percent earnings growth. So, consequently, our message has been a lot more selective about the securities that we want investors to focus on.

David Ortiz

My timing’s a little off. But I’m about to get hotter than Jamaica in the middle of August.

We need to see a few months of data before we start getting too bearish. With many investors squared up for the August holidays we probably will not see the flows pick up until September, but you can still find enough value in the market to justify a reasonable weighting in equities.

We had a dull July and August is duller still,

Dean Stockwell

We had actually given in August an undertaking to bring a final proposal in time for the ministerial council to consider it in October,

We had a big shakeout in recent days. There was something of a bear trap at the end of August when gold dipped briefly below $430/oz before finding support from physical buying.

Benigno Aquino III

When my father returned home on the twenty-first of August 1983, he had a speech prepared. Filipinos never got to hear it, because he was murdered right on the tarmac.

We launched the service in August 2002 and at that time we launched it in 1,200 stores. Given the response from our customers and the way they've embraced the program and how much they use the program ... it's been very successful.

The PPI number on Friday gave us a little bit of a hint that there most likely will be a hike on August 24th, but that'll be it,

James Baker

When is it going to happen? Probably during the seasonal peak, which is August to mid-October.

Stephen King

We think this week they keep rates unchanged but I think there is a reasonable chance of rates coming down in July and August and on the back of a continuously weakening European economy.