December Quotations | Page 5

This is going to compel some Fed officials to talk about raising interest rates. For the financial markets, the employment report for December is very negative. We see stock prices down. We see bond yields up. We are going to see this pressure continue for the next couple of days.

This is at odds with reported wage growth of 5.4% for the year to December 2005.

This is a strange one. He got hurt in October, came back and played some in December and now he's worse in March. We want to get Mike into the competition. His game is speed, so we've got to make sure his wheels are in shape.

This is shaping up as a terrific holiday for Vermont skiers and riders. We've had a series of modest snowstorms over the past couple of weeks and good snowmaking temperatures for most of the early winter. This combines to provide skiers and riders with some of the best December terrain in recent years.

The U.S. presence, both in security and economic terms, is a daily fact of life as people saw on December 26 (when the U.S. mobilized its military to provide aid to tsunami victims). We have many ways in which we interact with the region,

This is a difficult business. It has its ups and downs. There are a number of different directions that management could have taken and it became quite clear during the months of December and January ... that they were looking in a different direction for the main person other than me.

Although we are on the road for much of November, December and part of January, if we can pick up some early road wins it will certainly help to have home-court advantage down the stretch, especially having five league games at home and traveling for just three in February and March. With the strength of every team in our league, there is no letting down and every game has to be treated with a championship effort.

Although the month of December was somewhat better than we had expected, we do not think we are in a recovery leading to positive growth in the future,

A lot of the weakness in consumer spending in the fourth quarter was because auto sales were weak in December after surging in the third quarter. It's important to look beyond auto sales. At least for the first quarter, it's not going to take much for consumer spending to look good.

They don't want a huge spike in December and then a slump in January and February, ... They're trying to avoid that.

They are being as clear as they possibly can be about raising rates in December without knowing what the data will be in the next month,

You can't measure a whole season on one afternoon because we had a great year. Looking at a 3-5 year in December to this, it's unbelievable. It's maybe one of best years we've ever had.

This past winter started off in December looking bad. Everyone was thinking it would be a real bad winter, but then the snowfall faded off.

This looks like a fraternal twin of the December 26 earthquake.

This is what playoff baseball is all about. That's why you get up in December to work.

At first, the doctors were unable to diagnosis her. She also had three heart attacks back in December before she was finally diagnosed later in the month.

As we went into December and energy was in that hyper-inflation stage, we looked at measures to cut down the costs.

As we saw with April to December earnings, there are a lot of cases where earnings are coming in above forecasts ... companies are giving conservative forecasts, so I think full-year earnings will also beat forecasts.

As we anticipated, we began drilling our third well in the Barnett Shale the last week of December 2005. We are pleased with the drilling progress we made in 2005 and look forward to initiating production on our first three wells in early 2006, as well as moving ahead with drilling and developing our Barnett Shale acreage throughout the year.

As was the case for most of the year, growth was well distributed among the major construction segments. Comparing December 2005 to December 2004, public construction grew 10%, private residential construction rose 9.0%, and private nonresidential was up 6.0%. For the year, those categories increased 8.0%, 11%, and 5.0%, respectively.

As retailers had feared, the spending surge seen in December was short-lived and not sustained into the new year.

As you can see, Christmas is spread out -- not just among December but among January as well. Promotions certainly helped to drive those sales and you can see what the consumer is looking for. It all depend on price.

The most encouraging signs in the December report was that inventories declined in an absolute sense and at a faster rate. That implies a need for future restocking and that should be a good sign for January, February and March.

It's just one game. I want to be here for the long haul, playing in December and January. It's a good start. I'm happy, but I'm not content.

It was only in December (2004) that European Union leaders agreed to open membership talks with Turkey on Oct. 3 (2005). Yet as the date looms, doubts over whether the talks will start keep recurring. This is not because of any fault of my government, but rather because of certain countries within the EU,

It wasn't until the middle of December that things started to turn for him. In hindsight, I should have sat him a couple of games. He wanted to play, like all players do. We had that full week during finals where we were able to sit him and I think that helped.

It was clear to me that reality was catching up with satire so fast that somebody might read this essay on how to have the December 31 baby and obey it,

It was a reasonable performance and it would have been good if it were not for mobile phones. We think we might be seeing the first signs of recovery in the PC market. December was a reasonable month.

It's a weather story. After experiencing an incredible Arctic weather pattern in most of December there is now evidence of a warm-up after Christmas.

It is really disappointing in the context of how we played in December when we had four wins out of four and scored 13 tries.

It's almost a boilerplate meeting. At the last meeting there was widespread expectation that they would remove their pledge to maintain accommodative policy for 'a considerable period.' But the December employment figures made it very apparent that the job market continues to lag, and most observers have come to the conclusion that the Fed really does need to stay accommodative.

It is with great regret that I must inform you that I have concluded that the best route for me and my family is to fight Glen Johnson on December 18, 2004,

For close to 90 days, we have worked exceptionally hard with a successful membership drive kicked off in December to introduce our new board and new series and we're excited about all the changes inside and around our theater. Shakespeare set the stage for theater and we're hoping, with this show and our first season, to set the stage for the future of the Village Players and the renovation of its historic theater.

For Arizonans, there's a particular connection because it was the U.S.S. Arizona and so on December 7, we have a lot of commemorations on the day of the attack, and it's a big part of Arizona life,

For a toy company, you really don't know until November and December. You can do all the things you want now, but you better have it right then. One day in December can be worth a week now.

The number of displaced Katrina pets being brought in to our rescue center has dropped from up to 40 a day in late December to as few as five a day now, so we will be able to end trapping efforts within a week. And even though large areas are still devastated, the people of New Orleans are reclaiming their city more and more each day.

It's too early yet to be alarmist but if these kinds of numbers were confirmed in December and January, it would mean that the bright interval we've had this summer was a flash in the pan, ... This is certainly a warning.

It's looks like we're going to end up closing out the year down around 40 percent less than what we did last year for the community donations in December. December is our make-it-or-break-it month.

It just got too hard. It works a lot better if we do this on December 2 instead of January 27.

It's almost downright depressing. We had a terrific December with the storms, and everybody was hyped up, but January has been a big bust.

It looks like we may be on schedule, possibly for an Act 34 hearing sometime around December 12, if everything goes well,

It looks like we'll have the third period in a row where revisions to estimates are positive. And top-line growth rates, which were negative for a while, will be positive for the third period in a row and will be higher than we saw in either December or March.

It's going to be difficult to stimulate the real economy in the U.S. at a faster rate than 2 percent and perhaps even less if we have that fiscal cliff in December or January 2013.

It's horrible man, we've been working out since April 3. Now, it's December 25 and it's a year-long process. For it to come down to week 16 and be out of the playoffs, it's hard.

Donations got off to a really slow start in December and we were really concerned.

Consumer optimism climbed higher in December after soaring in November. This followed huge back-to-back declines in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and the associated surge in energy prices.

That process starts today with the naming of a new coach. I've always told people I'm a real relationships person. When I started on December 1, there was no honeymoon. There was no hall pass. I hit the ground running. I really didn't have the opportunity to cultivate relationships.

The big headline grabber from December was this supposed deletion of data right before the article was submitted. That has conspicuously disappeared from the journal's article today.

Strong December durable goods and the upward revision to November show that perhaps there isn't enough monetary restraint after all.

The bank conducted an internal audit, and it showed discrepancies in the general ledger account. He was confronted and terminated December 6.

The additional time is primarily attributable to a decrease in the rate of enrollment which began in December and continued through January as well as delays in initiating several additional clinical sites for the study.

Strong performance over the final weeks of the holidays helped Kmart's sales for December meet expectations. Categories showing particular strength included home-related items in areas such as appliances, decor, fashions and electronics, as well as do-it-yourself, consumables, stationery, prescription drugs, and seasonal items.

Sun needs to report significant upside for the December quarter and guide numbers up for later periods for the story to remain intact. Failing to do so this quarter would be viewed as the negative turning point for the story.

It's been very positive. In the typical November to December shopping season we would expect 3.5 million shoppers, and a little over two million of that occurs in December.

It must have been a really strong close to the month. December wasn't a big blowout for incentives, so there wasn't a lot of payback in January and consumer confidence really took a jump.

It is the strong hope of the United States that Japan will decide to maintain its troops in Iraq beyond December of this year,

I've got to say it's been a lot of fun to do, and in a way it really has been a protection. Honestly, I think otherwise I'd have stopped reading newspapers, magazines, books and would have had to go and hide on a remote island until December 1999. When, of course, the jumbo jets would have arrived and I'd have had to flee.

I've given it less thought than anybody else because months ago I made plans to go on without him, ... When he comes back, it's going to be like picking up a free agent at midseason. We'll try to get him oriented to the system. Obviously, he'll help provide something we didn't have the day before. Other than that, we might be going until December without him. I don't think about it.

They continue to take those paper profits and turn them into cash ... because they have to show real money on December 31.

The vote today is an important milestone. They will have elections in December for a permanent government. Every time the Iraqi people have been given an opportunity to express themselves politically they have taken it,

They were very excited after the win. They've been on the ice since December 1st. It's been six weeks of hard work without any positive results. Now they're excited to come to the rink and work even harder.

Once the equity market sees the end of the economic cycle isn't too far away, people will be more comfortable buying stocks. The market will probably retrace a lot of its lost ground. I think there will be a December rally that will carry through first and second quarters of next year.

not just a hot potato, it's a radioactive hot potato. We're all looking forward to December 18th, when if it is still a radioactive hot potato, it will be in somebody else's lap.

After the revisions (to December and November), the headline was more or less in line with the consensus.

After this quarter's shortfall on already reduced guidance, we are cautious about the visibility for the December forecast.

SMP will not have a valid bid to build the Green Line after December 15. I can see only significant costs and no benefit in delaying the decision on the monorail's future until February,

The labor market has not accelerated to the extent one might expect, judging from past cycles, and we probably won't see evidence of it again in the December numbers.

The Labor Department noted that first time claims were down to 271,000, some of the lowest numbers since 2000. New housing starts fell 8.9% in December according to the Commerce Department and new building permits also dropped by 4.4%.

The language from the ECB suggests they are not promising to do anything but they are not promising not to do anything either. The market will seize on anything that suggests a greater chance of a December rate hike.

Their (Exxon's) profits were very strong, and December personal income was higher than forecast.

The Fed has been on 'autopilot' with its monetary tightening so that even bouts of weaker data, such as we saw after hurricane Katrina, failed to divert the Fed off course. But now, following the minutes of the December meeting, it is clear that policy will become more data dependent.

The fallout from all of this will likely continue on in December and January with more dot.com closures and job cut announcements,

The Fed disappointed us short term, ... The economy looks better than it did in December and the Fed knows more than we do.

The consumer needs to show up for the holiday season for the personal computer industry to do well in the December quarter,

I'm going back to work in China. Chinese movies are getting very very strong now. I'm going back in December to work on a movie based on a classical novel. I play a woman who loves decadence.

I'm glad we're finally playing back at home. It's going to be a challenge. I wish we were playing them in December or something. Put those San Diego guys out in the cold.

I'm excited to see the new addition, ... The goal is to have the new wing under roof by December so they can work inside it during the winter months.

I joined Walt Disney, went to work, December 2nd 1935, so obviously, I'm not too young!

I'm surprised how low this (the December result) is.

Increased transaction volumes continued to drive non-interest income growth. Price increases contributed moderately as they were kept well below the inflation rate. The growth in transaction volumes emanated from the increased activities of existing customers and growth in the retail customer base from 6.9 million in March 2005 to 7,6 million in December 2005.

In December we saw strength in a broad number of categories, but we saw significant strength in flat panel televisions, MP3 players and accessories, notebook computers, video game hardware, navigation products and imaging products." ()

In December of 2001, after September 11th, my wife, Jane Rosenthal, and Robert DeNiro asked me if I would help them create the Tribeca Film Festival. The idea was to revitalize lower Manhattan. We would show films on piers, in high schools. It was all about the community. We wanted it to be accessible to everybody.

In December 2012, the U.S. 9th district court granted a temporary injunction to the Japanese whalers that ordered the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society U.S.A. to not approach within 500 yards of the whaling vessels.

In December 2004, U.S. interest rates were at 2.25 per cent and people were expecting them to top out at 3.0 per cent -- the Fed hikes this year have been the catalyst for an end to the dollar's bear run.

In December 2004, US interest rates were at 2.25pc and people were expecting them to top out at 3pc - the Fed raises this year have been the catalyst for an end to the dollar's bear run.

In December 2004, the Osage Nation of Oklahoma won its battle in Congress to determine our own laws and citizenship, ... It was the end of a long road to independence for our tribe, but the beginning of what we feel is most precious: our sovereignty. I am often asked if gaming has taken over the national debate on Indians in America. But gaming is an extension of our sovereignty, not the other way around and we cannot allow others to frame our issues for us. As Indian people, sovereignty comes first.

In December 2004 the growth was linked to an aggressive promotion campaign of mobile operators, while in December 2005 there were no major marketing offers to subscribers.

In December 2004, I travelled on the road from Uzbekistan across the Oxus River on which the first Soviet convoys had rolled into Afghanistan 25 years before.

In December 2003, after pulling their heads out of the sand, the Department of Agriculture closed the barn door after the mad cow had already escaped, ... This bill will ensure that the door is never opened again to abusing sick animals, jeopardizing the public health, threatening the American consumer's confidence in the safety of our meat and potentially undermining a valuable sector of our economy.

In December 1989, my mother died very suddenly, and that sparked a re-evaluation of what I was doing, and I realized I was mediocre at everything. I was a mediocre IBM employee, I was a mediocre entrepreneur, I was a mediocre artist. I decided that, although my mom wouldn't be around to see it, I wanted to be great at something.

Income figures ... were surprisingly low for December given the strong gains reported for the fourth quarter on Friday and the likelihood that bonuses would have boosted December gains.

In 1966, I bought my parents a carriage clock for their silver wedding anniversary. It was last wound 30 years later, in December 1996, the month my father died.

In light of the lower results anticipated for the December quarter, we now expect revenue for fiscal 2001 to be in the $6 billion to $6.5 billion range,

In light of September's disappointing sales and higher-than-planned ending channel inventories, we are resetting our revenue estimates for the December quarter to about $1.6 billion and are targeting a slight profit,

I'm up to a one-in-three chance that we will not know for days who won the election. And it could really drag on through December again. It's a cliche but it's a true cliche, that markets don't like uncertainty.

I'm convinced Apple's still a great story but at this price we need more evidence about how strong the December quarter will be. Give the stock a little time and in January we'll know how good Christmas was.

If somebody had said at the beginning of the year, or in December or January or February, that this team would go to the Elite Eight, I would have jumped for joy. But right at this second, I can't tell you that I'm jumping for joy.

If Wal-Mart's December comparable sales do go up 3 percent, that means they did much better in the last two weeks of the month,

If you look at the schedule it's got a period from October 29 to December 10 where we play five out of six on the road. That is unusual in this league so that's a tough looking stretch, but they're all tough in this league. Everybody can play in this league and schedules are all tough.

If you look at the larger companies in the industry, it's a year-round business. It's really a hospitality industry on a year-round basis and we're in the ski business from December to March.