Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gary Pruitt

Our local competitors have fragmented audiences. As a result, we're the last mass medium. We're holding onto that audience better than anybody else, albeit it's slipping slowly each year.

Some of the dollar bulls are back out today, albeit a little cautiously, given that we have another important batch of US data coming up later in the session.

Al Leiter

I think the World Cup is going to be bigger than what a lot of people are anticipating. At this stage in my career, when there is an opportunity, albeit a small one, of being on the team, what a great way to possibly end my career.

I wouldn't read too much into one month of data for any automaker. What I'm looking for more is the trend. And Toyota shows the continuation of a positive trend, albeit at a slower pace.

It is possible that Iceland is the tip of the iceberg, the first domino to fall, albeit a very small one.

Hedge Fund returns were impeded by futures managers who made strong energy commodity bets. However, preliminary results indicate emerging market managers maintained their stance as leading strategy contenders, albeit by a small margin. Approximately 60% of hedge fund managers in the Index delivered positive returns, while just over half beat the S&P 500.

Alexi Lalas

He has produced, albeit at a lower level, but we think he can make the transition and make it very quickly.

One asks how can players rush into selling the dollar -- albeit at these attractive technical levels -- in the face of the Fed's bolstering, anti-inflation rhetoric?

No one is sorrier than John for the embarrassment that these albeit private e-mails caused to his colleagues and to the people who were the subjects of those comments. John would be the first to say this has been a real lesson to him. John is abjectly sorry for all the comments that have come to light, and that's appropriate.

My head was full of tidying tips, and I had complete, albeit misguided, confidence that I could tidy any place.

We're not celebrating just yet because this is only the first step, albeit a very important one. The Executive have 28 days to make their ruling but we would hope they would concur with the views of the local councilors. What this decision does mean however is that we can now go out to tender which in turn allows us to assess the economic viability of the entire project.

Lisa Scottoline

I love writing both fiction and memoir. Both have unique challenges; bottom line, fiction is hard because you have to come up with the credible, twisty plot, and memoir is hard because you have to say something true and profound, albeit in a funny way.

P. J. O'Rourke

The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.

Bill Evans

The RBA retains its tightening bias, albeit softer than in November.

Carl Freer

We think the market is big enough. There is such a consumer demand today, especially in the handheld market, that there is room for another player -- albeit a small one -- but there is room for more choice,

To secure a Patrick board endorsement there may be one final bump to the bid on behalf of Toll. Patrick directors are more likely to recommend the current bid albeit maybe with a small sweetener.

Peter Milligan

Any team that has Shade as their leader is bound to have a pretty directionless quality. But when Cyborg asks Shade to gather the Secret Seven together and help him stop the war between Wonder Woman and Aquaman, Shade agrees - albeit reluctantly.

The good news is that we're moving, albeit slowly, in the right direction and there are signs of further improvement on the horizon,

We expect 2001 to be yet another year of profit expansion, albeit at a slower pace.

We have a vaccine we know can spur an immune response, albeit at very high doses. We're going in the right direction. The sobering news is we have a long way to go. So it's muted good news.

Our guess is that long-term rates will begin to drift up later this year, albeit modestly.

Long-term mortgage rates will more than likely rise over the next few months, albeit modestly compared to shorter-term rates.

John Burnside

The conventional, and painfully artificial, separation of the human realm from the natural other is bound to perish, albeit over a period of time, until we are obliged to learn how to cultivate our gardens under the most demanding conditions.

We can't do it on every missing adult. In this situation, we had an adult, albeit a mentally challenged individual, who, in the past, had been known to go elsewhere.

Christopher Cox

the regime, albeit it takes great pains to show us it is stable, is in fact profoundly unstable.

We feel that we're fulfilling part of his wishes, albeit 199 years later,

With unemployment set to breach 6 percent over the next few months, people's view of the current economy is bound to deteriorate, ... But expectations are what matter for spending, and at this level the numbers suggest consumers spending will rise, albeit not rapidly.

The large cap tech stocks in particular are really looking very, very attractive right now. At the moment, the small investor can start to step in, albeit slowly, because when these things begin, they don't typically turn right around. We could be looking at you know a weak quarter. But some of the large cap quality growth companies look very attractive right now.

It's not a musical. It's a play with music -- albeit a lot of music.

I'm not at all like Gilbert myself. I don't have his indestructible, albeit misplaced, self-confidence and unwavering faith that the next scheme will work out brilliantly no matter how disastrously all its predecessors have.

Diablo Cody

I myself identify as a recovering Blockhead. You'd be surprised how many twenty- and thirty-something hipster chicks have the NKOTB skeleton in their closet, albeit artfully concealed by stacks of Ksubi skinny jeans and ironic Judas Priest T-shirts.

John Caudwell

I'm a wealth creator. I'm not interested in saving in the least. While I do spend a lot, I don't spend money like other billionaires. I'm probably quite unusual, albeit I do have some of the significant trappings. But I always try to make my assets work for a living.

Alan Greenspan

But it is clear that, for the time being at least, the increase in spending on consumer goods and houses has come down several notches, albeit from very high levels.