Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark DiCamillo

People have pretty much adjusted to the risk factor of earthquakes and go about their daily lives.

Mike Flaherty

Stagg is a well coached team. We went to a trap and they adjusted and then we went to man-to-man and they adjusted again. I had hoped we could get a cushion because you knew they would come back. Williams did it when Rush wasn't shooting well lately, but they were on him and didn't give him many good looks. But when he started to score, it opened up things for the others.

Ethan Harris

Rising rates could have a tremendous impact on slowing consumer spending. Consumer spending has been about 6 percent, when adjusted for inflation. Rising rates could bring it down to 2 or 3 percent.

Russell Sheldon

Retail hiring between October and December was by far the smallest in years. We wonder if those 'not hired' for Christmas will 'not be let go,' as traditionally would happen, in January. If so, that will look like a gain in the seasonally adjusted numbers.

Jim Schwartz

Players have already adjusted to the rules changes from 2004. They've developed alternate techniques that can be effective but less likely to draw an illegal-contact flag.

Linda Smith

We never subbed, but they adjusted on the field to a position they felt they were better at.

Meg Casper

I went to Texas schools and came to Louisiana and I adjusted just fine. There was not culture shock.

Stephen Stanley

January auto sales were clearly much better than expected. We are on a pace to see a month-to-month increase in the seasonally adjusted sales pace, perhaps to around 17.7 million units or so.

Chris Collins

That was definitely the biggest exchange of the game. That was a six-point play and it finally gave us some breathing room. Give N.C. State a lot of credit as they came in here with a great game plan and adjusted to everything we tried.

Andrew Martin

Our mission is to provide every last opportunity for a person to turn his or her life around. We don't give up easily. These men exemplify the true spirit of Christmas - looking inside yourself and finding hope.

Tim Smith

(Spring break) is getting to be another Christmas.

John Heavener

Some of the upscale retailers and those who sold electronics were way up - some 30 percent. Some of the traditional department stores and low-end department stores may not have even made 5 percent. The week before Christmas may have made the difference for us (in Georgia).

Caroline Sunshine

Our family's special holiday tradition is going over to my grandparent's house on Christmas morning. My grandma cooks a big breakfast, and I love hearing her tell old funny stories.

Britt Beemer

Overall, the moderate-priced stores such as J.C. Penney, Sears and Wal-Mart had good traffic levels. We think luxury sales were probably flat this past weekend because more people said they decided to go away on vacation before Christmas this year than last year. So this could have impacted spending on other high-end items.

Richard Hastings

Retailers know that many people will wait until after Christmas for the big purchases. So they don't want to go too far into the holidays with excess inventory that they eventually will heavily discount.

Richard Hastings

Retailers have very big orders from vendors ready for delivery right before and right after Christmas. They want to look really, really good. That's when they come out with the richest displays of winter merchandise, and it culminates with Valentine's Day.

Ed Perkins

Resorts generally are starting to feature Christmas, New Year's packages that include some kind of holiday entertainment.

Kurt Barnard

Remember, there are still over 2 million unemployed workers and over 5 million are on part-time jobs. Christmas will be moderately better simply because last year was so bad. But unless this jobs picture improves, it's hard to say that the retail industry has finally turned the corner.

Bob Ulrich

Our sales for the month of December were at the upper end of our expectations, driven in part by a higher mix of promotional sales,

Philip Turner

Our goal is that we will have 18 graduates in December 2006 and they will stay in the community.

David Greenlaw

Overall retail sales growth in December should be robust.

Marshall Cohen

Retailers have recognized that December has 31 days.

Douglas Porter

Manufacturing posted a solid rebound in December from weakness the prior month, but it is far from out of the woods.

Charlotte Jones

I think there has been a pick-up in the last three months of the year, even though December is not yet done and dusted.

Jim Press

I think December is going to be a great month, ... There is a lot of inventory coming, new products. We will have a December to remember and forget October.

John Ryding

I think it's much more likely that Greenspan gives us a quarter-point cut, and then comes back at the November or December meeting with another quarter-point cut.

Richard Foreman

I think that should set up a very positive picture for the December quarter, subject to execution.

Jeff Flake

Pat Tillman exemplified the sacrifice, selflessness, and service of the U.S. military. Nowadays, genuine role models in professional sports are few and far between, but Tillman proved that there are still heroes in sports.

Luke Zeller

Patience plays a huge part. As far as in high school, every person here was a star in their high school.

David Crabbe

Our offense is decent. But we're still getting our legs underneath. We're still a little wobbly right now. We'll go as far as our setter can take us.

E. B. White

Our mailing list is over 600, and we know that it's far from complete.

Craig Oren

Our original goal was to finish in the top five and we weren't far off. Overall, it was a successful year. The state was a lot more competitive. The top teams were more evenly matched and it took a lot more points to stay in the top ten than it did last year.

Debbie Kolosh

Our old canteen was a big red school bus. It was kind of limited as far as what they could do in it.

Larry Collins

Sure, I thought we had two good looks. But we missed far more than just two shots. You can't go back and look at just those shots.

Stan Sanchez

Splitting series is not going to do anything as far as percentage points. It's all about percentage points. You don't gain anything by splitting a series. You have to win at least three of four to gain ground.

Paul Lawrie

Someone had to have a go, but Raphael had to make a few mistakes for me to have any chance, so good luck to him, ... He was so far ahead, second place seems like winning.

John Saboor

Our offer is one that we thought would actually gain strength over time. We feel very good about our chances.

Steve Rogers

Some of the manufacturing layoffs were offset by gains in retail.

Nestor Aguila

Some investors opted to pocket gains after the two-week trading halt.

Scott Kirby

Our systems are very highly tailored to what we do. You don't get any productivity gains from outsourcing.

Christina Pearson

Our goal here is to help people prepare, not to panic. Through preparation people can gain peace of mind knowing they've done what they can do.

Sukhbir Khanijoh

Overall market sentiment was boosted by the sharp gains in the regional bourses, especially rises in the Japanese market.

Toni Sacconaghi

Overall, it seems unlikely that Dell's share gains would be enough to offset the potential loss of Intel marketing monies.

Ian Shepherdson

Overall, this is a very robust report. There was a big upward revision to November orders excluding transportation, to a gain of 0.6% from down 0.6%.

Jeremy P. Johnson

Right now that's in serious danger. We're not trying to gain anything more, we're just trying to protect our jobs.

Kevin Madden

I don't have an opinion of what they're doing. The practice of encouraging trade associations or private-sector firms with regard to their hiring practices is not something this office directs or is interested in directing.

Casey Daigle

We've talked about hiring a personal trainer, and she wants to play about three weeks to a month after she has the baby.

Jeff Evans

One of the things that spoke to me in hiring these ladies is that their No. 1 priority is to have fun. They want to use the program as a stepping stone to get to the next level of competitive softball. Lori has been there, so she knows what it takes to get there.

Brad D. Smith

The ultimate proof of confidence for a small-business owner is, are they hiring employees?

Buddy Allen

I think we'd save a lot of money by hiring our own engineer. In fact, I know we would.

Mary Landrieu

We don't need to be laying off people. We need to be hiring people.

Tom McMillan

We were hiring people as it went along. We were in the process of ramping up our staff. Some new people got a real indoctrination. We had to tell them it's not always like this.

Tom McMillan

We were hiring people as it went along, ... We were in the process of ramping up our staff. Some new people got a real indoctrination. We had to tell them it's not always like this.

Andrew Tyndall

Why would (CBS) spend all that money hiring her away if they weren't hiring her because she's a superstar.

Abdullah Gul

I can't see any problem that will prevent the start of talks on October 3,

Natwar Singh

If it was a stalemate then I would not be going to Pakistan on October 3, would I?

Peter Scott

He was sold out for the October trip by June.

Adrian McKinty

The winters in Denver are brutal; it snows from the end of October to April.

Arthur Hailey

Long afterward, many would remember those two days in the first week of October with vividness and anguish.

Vance Joy

I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.

Ian Shepherdson

The rebound in expectations since October is still big enough to signal strong first-quarter consumption, but not a sustained boom.

Mark Hendrickson

We need to do what we can to spoil people's October plans.

Richard Hadlee

We've come up with these combinations and they're quality sides - but by the time October comes, are they all going to be fit?,

Scott Nelson

Retailers haven't told us they wanted to be down there.

Fred Delk

When this is finished, it will be a beautiful, pedestrian-friendly retail environment. It will have been worth it.

Nancy Bray

When you work in retail long enough, you get a vibe off people. We all got that vibe off of him.

Aaron Levie

Jeff Bezos is opening a retail store and owns a newspaper. Turns out everything we thought about the Internet is wrong.

Richard Redniss

We're not going to have, post-9-11, at this location, retail uses.

S. Walker

We're not going to do that. I think the retailers would go nuts.

Warren Jenson

We have seen some softness in retail in October,

Eric Larson

This really spearheads them into the conventional retail side of the business, in a big way.

Claudio Piron

There is a bloodbath in retailing in terms of competition.

Leroy Hood

If you just focus on the smallest details, you never get the big picture right.

Rod Page

He's probably the smallest individual, other than the consumer.

Gordon B. Hinckley

The smallest gesture can mean to much to those who may need a little lift in their lives.

William Shakespeare

The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on.

Bill Bryson

It was an especially wonderful time to be a noisy moron.

Al Wolski

I was just wondering if we were ever going to get the ball.

David Elias

I think it's wonderful what we're going through,

Catherine Jones

I was wondering that myself. I don't know.

Douglas Rice

I was wondering if we were going to sink. It was very, very wobbly and very, very dark.

Robert Redford

Julie, it's wonderful to see you. This is Lena.

Karen Armstrong

It can be confusing. But it's a wonderful organization.

Tom Ferguson

I think (the Fringe) is wonderful because . . . this is not 'Annie Get Your Gun,'

Josh Groban

I got to play a real D-bag lawyer, and comb my hair really awfully and kiss Emma Stone, so it was a really wonderful day on set.