Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mohsin Hamid

Like many kids, I used to pretend all sorts of things. I would climb into a tree and imagine that I was on an island, that the grass below we was an ocean, that the leaves were the fins of sharks. Perhaps unlike many people, I never really stopped. I still have a childlike predisposition to fantasise and share my fantasies.

We are pleased with our results in a challenging 2005, even though the 4% improvement in diluted earnings per share from operations was below our goal to increase those earnings 10% to 15% per year over time.

We started out at a level below my expectations. But now it is there. Some players have come into the league who have made it better. It's a high-Class A league, maybe even better than that.

We spent four days filming in a helicopter. I had never seen London from that viewpoint - you get a sense of how big it is and how easy it is to get lost. There was one day when we couldn't find Brick Lane: we spent 25 minutes looking and then realised it was directly below us.

When you take out the 15 cents and the 20 cents, you can get a number which actually was below consensus. And that's obviously in stark contrast to what we saw from Lehman Brothers yesterday.

John Banville

When you're writing there's a deep, deep level of concentration way below your normal self. This strange voice, these strange sentences come out of you.

Nell Newman

When coffee prices fall below production costs, farmers are often forced off their land, and they lose their homes, everything. With fair trade, farmers get a fair price for their harvest with a guaranteed minimum, so they can invest in their crops.

We've always said this about Alaska: nasty-ass weather, warm people. I never experienced 32 below before. ... My Irish blood has been thinned out by years of living in California.

When we were living there, we always knew there was the danger of something catastrophic happening down there because New Orleans is below sea level.

We're still below .500 in the MAAC so no one's head is too big.

We're seeing adjustments that are below the radar like the coal(-fired power) plant Nevada Power wants to build in Ely.

We're seeing a continuation of the trends that were generally in place through much of the first quarter. We continue to see a number of uncertainties below the surface, but investors have mostly focused on the positives.

Unless prosecutors win the cooperation-through whatever means of the people below Buffett and Greenberg, it is unlikely that their reach will extend to them.

United Tech would look at GE's offer as a ceiling and they would be below that.

David Frost

With UK growth remaining weak and below trend, and with inflationary pressures easing, we urge the (Bank of England's) monetary policy committee to consider an early interest rate cut.

We're more than 4 inches below normal in rainfall this year. There's not a good chance of rain until at least Thursday or Friday.

We're expecting a higher-than-average fire season, especially below 8,000 feet.

We're in the third architectural revision of the physical infrastructure below and the container management and billing and security and job isolation on top. It's really hard. It's a lot harder than we thought.

We're just so far below normal on our demand projections that there's just no shortage of natural gas and, in fact, there's a surplus of natural gas. Surprise, surprise.

We're below the floor before we've even started fishing.

We're really excited to play in the postseason, but we understand that, while we are sitting on top, every other team below us wants to knock us off.

With them sitting well below sea level, this is a potential set up for a catastrophic event that has never been seen before.

At first it was in the bone below her knee. Then it spread to the muscles and blood vessels around her knee.

Richard Baker

As we stated... like-for-like sales in the first half are below the rate planned for the full year and the market is expected to remain similarly tough through the rest of the year.

As you get below 20 employees, IP technology is difficult.

A break of 6.20/dollar this week looks inevitable as euro/dollar buying on dips targets 1.2630 then 1.2690. Technical support below 6.20 is at 6.15.

It's a savage profit warning for the UK with the number for 2007 likely to shift materially below current expectations. You are probably looking at cuts of between 30 and 50 percent to UK profitability for 2007.

It's a savage profit warning for the UK, with numbers for 2006/07 likely to shift materially below current expectations.

A lot of people with technology and business degrees are unemployed or working in garment factories, way below what they're educated for.

They not only missed revenue and guided below consensus, but they are giving us higher expenses, higher tax rates, so the numbers are going to come down.

This doesn't do anything to change the expectation for payrolls tomorrow, even though it is eye-catching that claims fell below 300,000.

This cleans up our structures below and helps us be integrated.

This fund had another disappointing showing in 2005. Its 4% gain ranked below 70% of its peers in Morningstar's large-cap growth category.