Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steven Smith

People have been coming to hunt for artifacts since August 17, 1780.

We'll probably ship systems in late August or September.

We had all these famous writers in Sweden and from all over the world home at dinner. I wanted to be a writer, and I wanted to be a highbrow writer as my father. He never, ever read anything like crime novels. He wrote biographies of Dante, James Joyce, August Strindberg and Joseph Conrad.

We're very pleased with the way the class has pulled together. It's a situation where we feel we filled the needs that we have. I think it's a good class. I can't wait for the 'coaches Christmas' in August when it all unfolds for you.

We're up 10 percent from the recent bottom, and that's a big bump in a month. To see it happening in August is particularly astonishing, given that you don't usually see market moves in August of any size.

With the growing season coming to an end, most observers believe that the South American crop will be record large, with more uncertainty about the Argentine crop than the Brazilian crop. U.S. soybean oil stocks at the end of the most recent reporting month--January 2006--were estimated at 2.477 billion pounds, nearly 60 percent larger than stocks of a year ago. Stocks were at the highest level since August 2002.

David Robinson

We had more rain in the past three days than combined in most parts of the state in August and September.

Curtis Brown

We had high expectations. August exceeded even our own high expectations.

Leonard Boswell

The 9/11 Commission recently released their report, citing important changes which need to be made to improve our nation's homeland security. I voiced my disappointment with the House leadership when this report was left until after the August recess for action.

Kyle Petty

The problem isn't necessarily the driver signing a contract in August of 2005 to race for another team in 2007,

We are in the summer doldrums. Once we get into September, markets will probably rally because the fundamentals are strong but August tends to be a time of light trading.

We're all out there in August beating the bushes, and the voters are still at the beach.

We have to save the water we have for the time being. The Charles, for all intents and purposes, is 100 percent wastewater in August and September because we've pumped our aquifers so low.

We hope to break ground in late June and our goal is to have the school set to open in August 2007.

I think Mr. (Federal Reserve Chairman Alan) Greenspan is partially responsible for the latest decline in the market, because in his last testimony, he said something that was quite important, and I think he gave a wake-up call to the market. He said that they were - they had not made a decision yet about the August interest rates.

We think Mr. Greenspan is willing to give the data a chance; it will take bad data to force an August rate hike,

Today's sharp selloff shows that there were more bears on vacation in August than we thought, and they've come back nasty.

Andrew Wilson

We are still looking for the missing piece. We know significantly more now than we did in August 2003,

The levels in July were too high for the reality of what is truly going on in manufacturing. The move back in August is to a more realistic level.

John Hodgman

Do not listen to the killjoys who tell you never to eat oysters in months that do not contain the letter R: May, June, July, August, Octoba. You know.

Despite the modest unit increase, August was not a blockbuster month for handhelds,

Despite what may be believed to the contrary, the shootings that occurred in August 2003 are unsolved.

An Edmonton electrician purchased 18 winning PROLINE tickets on August 12, 1991, and won $895,333.48. One of his tickets won $113,621 and that is likely the biggest win on a single ticket.

People are still taking vacations, traveling more this August than last August.

People are waiting for the Fed. I think the Fed will leave rates alone, probably say that the risks are tilted toward inflation and people are also saying they'll come back in August and hike again.

Normally we'd expect to see a decline of about 400,000 barrels a day from August to September just for seasonal reasons, as people stop taking vacations.

The nascent recovery in domestic demand is neither strong enough to warrant an immediate reversal of the August cut, nor weak enough to prompt back-to-back rate cuts.

Audley Harrison

After I knock out Robert Wiggins on August 18, let's do this for the heavyweight division and more importantly, the fans. I'm certainly willing to put it all on the line.

Another 25 basis point palliative ease in August seems a good bet. But the big easing story is over.

Enough schools may have started earlier this year, and, as a result, the increase in employment came in August and not in September.

Sales in August were essentially on plan at Target and the Department Stores, and below expectations at Mervyn's,

Zalmay Khalilzad

At this point the determination is to meet the August 15 deadline.

They said there was a time last August when there were women outside working in the garden and that's where they saw Warren. They're sure it was Warren. They are quite adamant.