Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Joy

The persistence of high oil prices can't be lost on the Fed. Consumers have to pay for higher energy even though it's volatile. It is a real cost.

James Carrick

We are seeing a gentle recovery going on in retail sales at this stage, which I expect to get stronger going forward. The pickup in the housing market should have a general wealth effect, making consumers happier to go out and spend.

Marshal Cohen

Until they're able to prove that consumers are going to respond to the changes, the Street is very nervous. It's a very big undertaking to convince the country that a national Macy's is better than regional department stores.

Steve Stanley

While many will be disappointed that we will not necessarily see huge upward revisions to payrolls ... a significant upward revision to wages would also be a positive development, as it suggests that consumers have more firepower than we thought.

Janet Jenkins

We've become a customer service department for some of these companies. So many consumers can't seem to resolve their issues with telephone companies.

Michael Gallelli

We've always tried to give consumers what they want, not what we feel they need,

Bill Gates

We're going to gain a lot of share here. We're going to make a lot of consumers happy.

Kurt Barnard

We found out, from talking to consumers and store operators all over the country, that low-dollar items went very fast. Forget about high-end items.

Jonas Persson

We find consumers very reluctant to pay for new services at all. Corporations are more willing to pay for new services. And from corporations, come consumers who have gotten used to using the services at work.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

True and absolute freedom is only found in the presence of God.

David Selby

I never found it frustrating not speaking.

David McCullough

The more we see the founders as humans the more we can understand them.

Catherine Bell

It's changing a bit, but the thing in LA is everyone is either in the industry, or knows someone who is in the industry. So, they don't let on that they recognize you, that's what I've found out.

Howard Rubenstein

The Post found out about this late yesterday afternoon. They had no inkling whatsoever a scandal was brewing.

Mehmet Okur

We struggled with Jason Kidd and Richard Jefferson but we found a way to help each other and I think we did a good job tonight.

Michael Lynch

We are making a friendly offer to Reynolds, ... We were shocked when we found out that Alcoa had made its offer and we assembled ourselves as quickly as we could to put together this proposal.

David Brooks

Emotion is the foundation of reason.

Baron Davis

I am the donation to the foundation.

James A. Moore

Ultimately, Lloyd Alexander's tales of Prydain were enough to make me come back and visit again and again, and each time, I laughed and I wept. Each time. No exceptions.

David Sedaris

But I don't distinguish between being laughed with, and laughed at. I'll take either.

Manolo Saiz

Someone laughed at me when I said it, but I think that Roberto is a rider for second efforts.

French Proverb

That day is lost on which one has not laughed

Erin McKean

A love letter is to be savored; a love email... is to be forwarded to all your friends, and probably laughed at.

Damien Hirst

There was a point I could have just churned out the spot and spin paintings for ever and laughed all the way to the bank.

Drew Brees

Me and Gates, we laughed in the weight room today because that wasn't our 'A' game,

Andy Kennedy

We just kind of laughed it off and said here's another one.

Evan Goldberg

'The Hangover' was, like, solid. I laughed a bit, you know. Seven out of 10, maybe. But I made it 32 minutes into 'Hangover 2' before I walked out.

Katy Perry

I want to sell out arenas and sell millions of records.

Mike Burkett

So many millions of people don't feel like their vote has any meaning. There is no reason why younger people can't be a unified force.

Susan Ertz

Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

Jim Amos

It is significant in its impact. We do millions of packages a year with UPS.

Peter Ashkenaz

With millions of people in the program, you are going to see all sorts of different scenarios. This (situation) is unfortunate.

Peter Kessler

For millions of people, this was their source of food,

Kevin Bankston

If state secrecy can prevent us from preserving the rights of millions upon millions of people, then there is a profound problem with the law.

Walt Riker

I think all the projections show this is going to be win, win, win for McDonald's, the Smithsonian and the millions of visitors who go there.

Dan Newman

He may spend his tens of millions on slick TV ads, but this isn't eBay. The governor's race does not have a 'buy it now' option.

Charles Spurgeon

The greatest, strongest, mightiest plea for the church of God in the world is the existence of the Spirit of God in its midst, and the works of the Spirit of God are the true evidences of Christianity. They say miracles are withdrawn, but the Holy Spirit is the standing miracle of the church of God to-day.

David Quammen

What do we measure when we measure time? The gloomy answer from Hawking, one of our most implacably cheerful scientists, is that we measure entropy. We measure changes and those changes are all for the worse. We measure increasing disorder. Life is hard, says science, and constancy is the greatest of miracles.

Carl Sagan

A blade of grass is a commonplace on Earth; it would be a miracle on Mars. Our descendants on Mars will know the value of a patch of green. And if a blade of grass is priceless, what is the value of a human being?

Kurt Vonnegut

Trust a crowd to look at the wrong end of a miracle every time.

Kurt Vonnegut

What you can become is the miracle you were born to be through the work that you do.

Bill Johnson

The best way to prepare yourself for your own miracle is to rejoice in somebody else's.

Bill Johnson

Every miracle brings the release of glory.

Edward Gibbon

Does there exist a single instance of a saint asserting that he himself possessed the gift of miracles?

David Hume

No human testimony can have such force as to prove a miracle, and make it a just foundation for any such system of religion

Bob Turner

There are some big inventories out there. The new products that they have talked about aren't out for another quarter or so. So it's probably going to be more of the same for some time.

Ayumi Hamasaki

It is necessary that I am viewed as a product. I am a product.

Karen Burk

We want to make sure we're only putting safe, quality products on our shelves for our customers.

Connie Sellecca

We got to this point by constantly perfecting our products.

Steve Mahoney

Landowners can use these products for beautification or for conservation purposes.

Shane Robison

With managed services, we have a lot of products we can pull through.

Richard Segal

We think cross-selling is important, but we're not obsessing about whether one of those products is sports betting.

Deanna Anderson

Basically, we do it to showcase our products to celebrities.

Fazlul Haque

I am uncertain about shipping our products on time.

Alan Watts

What would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life?

Al Sharpton

I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending.

Jonathan Moreland

Why spend time trying to read this guy's tea leaves?

Esperanza Spalding

I don't watch TV, I don't spend time on the Internet, and I don't party much. I don't text very much, either.

Neville Marriner

But the most important test is to take them on tour and see if you can bear to spend time with them.

Theaster Gates

I want to spend my time between the creation of ideas and the creation of things.

Tyra Banks

Working women, moms, students, they don't have a lot of time to spend on their faces.

Elizabeth Hurley

Spending time outdoors makes you feel great.

Brian Tracy

You cannot save time, but you can spend time differently.