Famous Quotes & Sayings

At the height of the bubble people used to go to expensive and luxurious restaurants, to drink a lot of tremendously expensive champagne.

Marcus Aurelius

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

We should have economic growth of more than 3 percent this quarter. I think the Fed is concerned about a possible housing bubble and about us getting close to full employment. I think this is one of the rare occasions were the market has it wrong.

We don't see a bubble because the strength didn't come from speculative demand. It came from low 30-year mortgage rates, good demographics and other good fundamental factors that boosted demand. Even if demand declines, we won't see home sales falling off a cliff.

We've never seen this size of a housing bubble before, so in a sense we're in kind of a strange place right now.

We say it's a bubble, but a housing bubble does not pop like a stock market bubble, ... A stock market bubble, when it pops, lots of market activity, prices dropping rapidly. Housing prices don't drop that way because there's a huge fixed cost. You don't day-trade your home.

Everything is in a bubble. Everybody that missed the stock market bubble is intent on identifying, or even labeling, the next one.

There's not a bubble in this market today.

We had the scare of our life a year ago, being on the bubble in February. We don't want to relive that experience.

The problem existed long before (the Internet bubble burst in March 2000).

Lena Olin

It's important not to lay in a bubble bath drinking champagne. It's important to take part in what life's all about.

Nobody can pinpoint when this process will come to an end. But it is very clear that it can't go on forever. Do you let this bubble grow, or do you do something about it?

Certainly he was on the bubble as we started, but played himself on the team. That's what our goal was when we were selecting this team. Let guys play themselves on or off the team.

Bubble' is a very emotive word and it does get thrown around a lot. I don't think there is any evidence of a bubble yet.

More often than not, theatre critics bubble with enthusiasm about plays that are, when all is said and done, really pretty average.

Marc Faber

If the Chinese bubble bursts one day, which inevitably will happen - maybe not tomorrow, maybe in three months, maybe in three years - when it happens, it will have devastating consequences for the global economy.

I grew up in a Mauritian bubble in France... I had the feeling of not belonging, but still living with French culture.

Since the bubble burst following the dot com explosion, a lot more money is going to startups.

Mark E. Smith

Since NAFTA there's been a good deal of U.S. investment in Mexico. Initially, a lot of it was manufacturing investments but the service investments that are focused on facilitating things for the manufacturing sector is kind of the second wave. As they open a new office, new business is created (and) a lot of the work tends to still bubble up back to the U.S. parent.

He's thinking about legacy building at this point and the one thing he doesn't want to do is leave at the top of an immense bubble and have it burst soon after he leaves. He kind of touched on it yesterday in relation to the housing market.

House prices are accelerating, and maybe you can say that's a bubble or not and there will be some correction down the road.

It is a very, very high price. It feels very like a bubble purchase, like the deals done in the late 1990s.

Jason was on the bubble and really needed a win to make the Olympic team. He totally came through when it counted the most.

Steve Jocz

People just exist in their own little bubble all the time. If people wake up and realize that there are other things going on in the world, that's a good thing.

Luke Ford

Standardized tests don't measure everything in a child's life in school. We should take a look at the total education and not just what they can put on a bubble sheet.

Some of the buildings look really old, it's so different, ... But it's good just to be outside the little bubble we live in. This is a lot more rewarding than the beach.

I was pretty sure Kraft would go up but we were not expecting a huge pop like the tech names during the Internet bubble heyday.

We do have some trees on the bubble that will go over, but I see more good coming out of this than bad.

Yesterday was very frightening. It felt like maybe the bubble was bursting on the Internet stocks. I'm not sure that that's truly the case, but clearly investors are scared right now and they're panicking a little bit.

We really like the steady pace versus the bubble (mentality) we have seen in the past. Instead of irrational exuberance, we are seeing healthy, rational optimism.

Christina Hendricks

When you're doing voice work, you're in a bubble where you just think about the story and the words. They record you on video while you're doing the voice work, so they capture how your face is moving and the gestures you make.

Mark Zandi

If Greenspan had been stronger in his views, then the bubble would not have been as large and the subsequent correction not as severe.

John Battelle

I don't think this is the sound of a bubble deflating. I don't think we're in a bubble. But maybe this is a reminder that outsized expectations are, well, outsized.