Jim Sullivan Quotations

Yeah, it has been a sacrifice, ... I may be totally naive here. But in my heart of hearts, I really believe this book will see some measure of success.

We always have three goals, and anyone who's played for us knows the first goal we have it to make the states, the second goal we have is to win the league and the third goal we have is to win the states.

Lots of people think it was Jimmy Page who had the first fuzzbox. It wasn't, No! it wasn't me either.

Seventy percent of our Mazda customers spend an enormous amount of time on the Internet prior to coming to the dealership,

I wouldn't take the numbers literally, but they're clearly signaling an improvement.

I am a very lucky man. I am living my life with my hobby as my profession.

Certainly, the degree of strength through August is not sustainable; we'll get a much weaker number in September. But the third quarter as a whole will still show 5 to 6 percent consumer spending growth, even if we get a negative number in September.

I did loads of sessions with Andrew Oldham.

We can make science personal, like a love story or your best friend.

Historically this number tracks the economy, in general, pretty well. And of all the numbers, this report really has almost the least amount of noise.

He's dominant. I think he brings the level of play up for everyone else. He is very intense, and that rubs off on the other guys.

Hypothetically speaking, if the gasoline crunch forces prices up to $4 a gallon in the next three months, that would be a pretty big hit to the economy and to the consumer,

Kevin's times this year are just a shade off of what Jesse Bentley used to run, ... I think he'll have a really good year.

Just recently I worked with Van Morrison and I came to realize that money can't make a decent human being out of you.

It could be great for six months for a worker, and then he loses his job.

I think the Fed wants the unemployment rate to stop going down pretty much immediately, and if it doesn't the Fed will keep tightening.

It gives the listener a good workout, to listen to the music, the same as it does us to play it.

It is hard for 2 creative people to work together for that length of time and not fall out.

Our returning the letter ahead of the requested timetable should certainly be an indication of our level of anxiousness to get this thing going.

Restoring one's identity can be a complicated and time-consuming process, so we wanted to make it as simple as possible should any of our customers fall victim to this crime. We are thrilled to be working with the experts at Identity Theft 911 in providing this much-needed service.

People have seen weakening in goods prices and have been pointing to deflation. This tells us we're not going there.

Some of the pickup reflects mix shifts, with payroll growth in above-average-wage sectors accelerating relative to growth in below-average-wage sectors. That said, some legitimate pickup in wage gains is probably credible given the low unemployment rate and the energy-led rise in inflation expectations recently.

some of the best lawyers in the state.

My whole life is geared to play guitar. I play what I want when I want and I hope the listener gets as much pleasure listening to the music as I get playing it.

Looking at his file, there have been no behavior problems. All he has to do is stop at the halfway house in Newark sometime on Friday to check out, and he's free to go.

I think most people expect the economy to weaken in 1999, but certainly there's no sign of a collapse yet.

I think Kevin, Britni, Caroline and Josh will be competitive while they figure out their pacing, ... For the other kids, this will be an experience for them. It's their first varsity race and I just want them to go out and get comfortable and get a feel for the distance.

I think they're doing fine. Like all of us, they're tired of losing. We've been in every game. We've got a good bunch of kids and a good coaching staff. We're not playing up to the caliber we're capable of playing.

We now expect the first hike to come in June. And rates could well be up at 2.00 percent by the end of the year.

We now expect the first hike to come in June, ... And rates could well be up at 2.00 percent by the end of the year.

Most of the groups couldn't handle the studio, it was a very nerve racking experience if you never worked in studio conditions before.

Well I know I was contracted to Polydor so they couldn't use my name.

We have had every type of emergency you can imagine,

When the price of Coke goes up, you can say, 'That's too bad; I'll buy Pepsi.' But you can't do that with gas. We have to take it on the chin and pay it.

We're thrilled for Jamie to have found a school that is a great fit for her both academically and athletically. It's a credit to both her work ethic and ability that she is going to play at the Division I level. Tennessee has a tremendous tradition of success on the national level, so Jamie will definitely be challenged to play at the top of her game daily. That can only make her an even better collegiate player.

We hung out for three days together then lost all contact.

Bill has pointed me in a good direction as far as what to smoke and the difference in quality.

Everyday was like a holiday allways something new always something different, but it was allways for someone else and never for me.

There's nothing like it in the area that I'm aware of. We're excited about it.

It was weaker than expected, but it wasn't a dramatic surprise. It was already pretty clear that sentiment came off in January.

I used to get nervous so I took up Yoga to help me calm down.

Strictly speaking it's not that the stock market views good news as bad, directly.

You sit there waiting for the RED LIGHT to go on. You could be sitting there for five minutes, waiting, while the producer talks to the engineer. Then the light goes on you know that you mustn't make a mistake for at least 4 minutes.

The weight of evidence is showing housing is starting to cool. Prices have continued to rise faster than income. For a while that pattern has been offset by declining mortgage rates, but that's stopped.

The weekly claims number is as good an indicator as there is; we watch weekly chain-store sales numbers for clues on retail sales; and the confidence numbers have not correlated with spending by any mans, but they have captured the spirit of the economy in the past couple of months,

Almost every category of employment has improved in the last couple of years, ... But compared to what we were seeing during much of those two years ago, it's now effectively a balanced recovery.

Also I played on a lot of demos in the early days of the Stones.

They are part of lots of sessions that makeup a hazy part of my session life.

There were more groups that made records and didn't make it than there were groups that made it. So you can imagine the work that we did.

There isn't anyone at this point who can unilaterally change things.

This marks the second consecutive year BRE has introduced guidance well below the consensus estimate.

They're clearly still leaning toward more tightening if needed, but there's no presumption that they continue to go.

There's certainly some value in reading these numbers as they're coming in.

There's a lot of value coming out this machine.

It's kind of a bizarre board. In my view, they didn't seem to come well-prepared.

It was the early days of Rock 'n' Roll in this country. We were all struggling to learn music, it might be Country, Jazz, Classical, Blues or even Rock 'n' Roll.

It's a wonderful camaraderie-type thing. I enjoy it so much. I have to limit myself.

It's a reflection of strong U.S. demand. Growth in Europe and Japan is certainly going to help, but until domestic demand slows, we're not going to see a big turnaround in the trade deficit.

It shows that underlying inflation is still tame and only slowly edging up. That means the Fed can take its time hiking rates. The only question is whether it keeps moving at every meeting or takes a break now and then.

It's quite a split we have on boths sides, ... But they're all great athletes and we'll have some fun this year and some success.

It's up to people like us, all of us, to address and talk about things like runaway global warming and how we can use things like remote viewing to save our planet.

Consumer spending growth has generally been trending at about 2.5-to-3 percent at an annual rate -- not booming, but not terrible, ... The fact that the job market is still weak is restraining optimism a bit; hopefully, as the recovery gathers pace, we will start to see more job growth.

That real wage gain of 1.5 percent is pretty good by historical standards.

The beginning of the season is very strong. Our first four games are all going to be very challenging.

The best 45 years of my life were the 5 years I spent with Ton Jones.

The addition of the CX-7 to the Mazda lineup is a critical step forward for us in terms of our ability to grow Mazda's business in North America,

It wasn't all spent on practicing, I did do other things! but the classical guitar means a lot to me so I spend many hours building good chops and getting a good program together.

Not a bad start. Mount Pleasant was a good team; they were solid. Things were just clicking well today.

It underscores how much profits have been squeezed and helps explain why business investment is weakening as much as it is in the second quarter.

The voracious demand for space demand continues to make Midtown the place to be.

This is consistent with the continued downtrend in housing demand.

The net of it is there's still a strong trend in employment. But all this is pre-Katrina.

The Fed won't admit to reacting to one number.

I met a congressman who claimed that he could introduce me to two people who saw Amelia Earhart.

I hope to soon be in contact with the man who is searching for Noah's ark.

Inflation is obviously a little bit higher than expected. Food and apparel were up. This is not going to stand in the way of further Fed easing.

I never had a Christmass at home for about 10 years.

In the whole post-war rebound story, the first part has come through -- we've clearly seen a bounce in consumer confidence. The next key step is business activity measures improving, including employment indicators. Hopefully we will see weekly jobless claims coming down soon -- in the next three-to-four weeks.

In our forecast, we see consumer spending slowing a little bit in the fourth quarter to 3.1 percent from 3.8 percent for the same period last year, ... The rationale is that as the housing market slows , there'll be a cooling effect in the home wealth effect and the fluctuating energy prices will also have some drag on spending in the months ahead.

I like to work with artists who are as wide in their musical taste as I am.

I remember a couple of instrumental albums, just don't ask the names.

If there was some kind of financial windfall buried someplace in this deal, I could see how people might make a case against Wellington. But there isn't any. . . . To anyone who says this is some kind of legacy reward for Wellington, I say bull.

Clearly the Fed wants to start prepping people for the possibility that they will be tightening later this year.

I didn't even recall being on the DB sessions until Herbie Flowers reminded me a couple of years ago.

Gaylord has a lot of returning players off a team that was solid last season. They're great competition.

If housing continues to cool, some weakening will occur in the economy.

I don't think the holiday season will be as good as last year. Right now people are facing higher gasoline prices. As winter arrives, the higher cost of natural gas will push up utility bills.

Caroline and Britni are going to be right there in the top five in a lot of league races,

These are not incredibly large numbers, ... Along with the lower tax payments, refunds could add a half-percentage-point of growth to GDP in the first half of the year -- not a dramatic effect, but a bit of a plus.

The CX-7 wasn't even a sketch on a cocktail napkin a little over two years ago. The fact that I'm standing here today watching the first CX-7 roll off the line marks a milestone in Mazda's ability to design and engineer vehicles for specific markets such as North America.

The CX-7 is a very important addition to the Mazda lineup and will play a vital role for us in the North American market. The introduction of the CX-7 further expands the Mazda lineup and enables us to offer vehicles that appeal to an ever-widening range of customers.

The clear message seems to be that while oil is a drag, it's not a downward driver of consumer spending, ... The labor market is generating good income in general and the housing market continues to deliver a positive wealth effect. These factors are helping to offset the impact of higher oil prices.

The depth is something in our favor; experience isn't. But, a lot of these guys did see action and play a full JV schedule last year, so they are no strangers to the game.

A musician can get lost to what he is in the session busines as it was.

The Mazda CX-7 represents everything a Mazda SUV should be: powerful, stylish, beautifully crafted and fun to drive. Being the first of three vehicles designed, engineered and built specifically for North America, the CX-7 is crucially important to the Mazda lineup and to the success of Mazda as a whole.