Famous Quotes & Sayings

The Fed has more or less backed away from this pre-emptive approach that they talked so much about in recent months. In fact, the Senate could say that Alan Greenspan & Co. caved in to the political criticism on Capitol Hill that we saw emanate over the last few weeks,

Heinrich Rohrer

In 1974/75, I spent a sabbatical year with Professor Vince Jaccarino and Dr. Alan King at the University of California in Santa Barbara to get a taste of nuclear magnetic resonance. We solved a specific problem on the bicritical point of MnF2, their home-base material. We traded experience, NMR, and critical phenomena.

Bobby Robson

In my feeling, it's very similar to the feeling in the city when the club decided to bring Alan Shearer back here.

I'm looking forward to meeting Alan Trammell and Kirk Gibson.

The best way to describe this report is 'holy cow,' ... This is a great report. We have Alan Greenspan a little bit worried about inflation and certainly the financial markets will realize that those worries certainly continue to prove to be unfounded.

Once Alan got in foul trouble we were in trouble.

A consultant, Alan Proulx, has helped us to identify conference rooms and other areas that can be used.

Graham Moore

I'm not gay, but I don't think you have to be gay to have a gay hero. Growing up, Alan Turing was certainly mine. I'm also not the greatest mathematician of my generation. We have lots of biographical differences, but nonetheless, I always identified with him so much.

I never close my practices and I shut it down on Friday. I was really excited about the way that they came out and responded. Alan Daniels was the difference tonight. He made some shots that we contested, but he made the shots. I told the guys in the locker room that I do not know what is going to happen from here on out, but we have to treat our next game as a tournament good.

That's a big slowing. It's evidence that the Federal Reserve and Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan are being effective in their efforts to cool the economy.

It's crazy. I think Alan Greenspan is completely out of touch. He's going after the wrong guy.

If you are Alan Greenspan, it's hard to make a rule that would do any better. On the other hand, we have had 12 chairmen at the Federal Reserve since 1913, and some of them have made massive blunders.

If you are Alan Greenspan, it's hard to make a rule that would do any better.

If you put someone else in to play Federer what would that do to the individual if you had Alan playing or if you had Dave playing. The permutations are endless and, as of yet, I have not made up my mind.

Penn Jillette

In the '60s, you know, you had this -- you'd have, you know, James Brown on the same show with Alan King, and that was -- that made perfect sense, and it still makes perfect sense,

In Toronto, I've met other director like me, in the wings of the studio industry and with a lively desire to maintain our independence, people like Paul Cox of Australia and Alan Rudolph, who works in the eye of the storm in Los Angeles.

In terms of the fundamentals of what Alan Greenspan said, there is nothing new there. The fundamentals are great.

Michael Morpurgo

If I'm serious, yes, I'd like to have done what Shakespeare did... to act and write. You learn so much from acting. One of our great writers, Alan Bennett, does both supremely well. When I write a story, I tend to speak it aloud as I'm writing it.

Graeme Souness

I can understand people who liken it to the signing of Alan Shearer as Michael is the current England No. 9. I'd say it's the biggest transfer I've been involved in as a manager of any football club.

I do think the majority of Alan Greenspan's work is done.

I asked Alan if he knew of any mentoring programs, and he told me to put my resume together and he'd get it in the hands of other people.

J. Taylor

He's got another year left at Forest so a lot of it is down to Alan speaking with them to see what's happening there.

P. J. O'Rourke

Charles McCarry is the best modern writer on the subject of intrigue - by the breadth of Alan Furst, by the fathom of Eric Ambler, by any measure.

His big failing is that he hasn't provided the Fed with a replicable method of re-creating Alan Greenspan. He hasn't left behind an institutional framework that will guide his successor.

Steve Scott

By the time he's done with his career, Alan will be the greatest American distance runner ever.

But he (Fed chairman Alan Greenspan) also said they're still worried and they're not through tightening.

If RBNZ Governor Alan Bollard needed more information to stop hiking interest rates, the house-building consents data today fit the bill.

I had always assumed that Alan was done with TV. I thought he was going to do movies, so we didn't even try. Then he read this book and said, 'I want to do this.' It was really a beautiful surprise.

It's for sure one of the competitive competitions in the world. I haven't played in England yet, that's why I'm very happy to play this year. I hope alongside Alan Shearer, or the other two strikers.

It's too early to call a turn in the trend, so Alan Greenspan can't relax completely, but it's certainly the kind of report that will help him sleep better. There's still no sign of wage inflation and we seem to be heading for a soft landing: a smooth slowdown into sustainable non-inflationary growth.

It's now a seven-week contest. I left it up to the contestants whether they wanted to continue with it. I spoke with Alan first, and he said it would be best to go on with it. Then I spoke with Brent, and he agreed.

It's the rationale of not putting all of your eggs in one basket, for not betting that (Fed Chairman) Alan Greenspan can save the economy.

It's almost like Chambers is getting to be Alan Greenspan. The little things he says get interpreted in all different ways.