Famous Quotes & Sayings

August looks like it is going to be a good month for us, ... As we look into the fall season, hog prices have held up quite a bit stronger than others have predicted.

August is when I read, ... I pick books that take me away and I really enjoy it.

August is the heaviest driving month of the year. A lot of it has to do with the number of people taking family vacations.

James Kennedy

August is rerun season, so we've seen this episode before...and it has the same ending: nothing is imminent.

August is one of our hottest months. This is not really a heat wave. It's just typical for summer.

Ron Sims

August gave a little talk before the show about how he dropped out of school, regretted it and spent hours in the library educating himself, ... He talked about developing your intellect, being open to the world and life through books. It was one of the most brilliant speeches I've ever heard on that subject, and it really moved those kids.

August didn't drive. He moved on the surface on his own two feet. He was much more grounded in the community than most of us tend to be. We're all sort of fast-moving; the pace is not conducive to building relationships in the way that I think he did in this town.

August did a a lot of good work on the play, and it's changed a great deal from Yale. He knew what he wanted to do, and he was up to doing the work.

As of August 1982, fifteen years later, the number of signatory states stands at twenty-five, of which twenty-two are already parties to the treaty.

To a large degree, Britain's weaker economic outlook has already been priced in since the August rate cut.

We go into next week with continued uncertainty and wall-to-wall worries. The month of August was full of negative surprises, and September seems to be headed in that direction.

We give The Truth for Youth to teenagers in revival services, evangelistic crusades, television, radio and on the internet, ... The biggest distribution outlet is each August on American Family Radio.

I've walked the streets, but I didn't see them. I love the people coming in March, but I want them to come in August and December.

I've been playing since early August and it was a slow process getting back in. It wasn't until mid to late September when I started to feel like myself again. I feel light-years better than I did last year coming into this season physically.

Rocco Landesman

What's happening here now is we've put up something that will never close. The name of August Wilson is written in stone forever.

We will never let the BOJ repeat the mistake the bank made in August 2000.

Charles Dutton

When I read 'The Piano Lesson,' I realized it encompassed the entire African-American experience, ... August Wilson's legacy is as important as Martin Luther King's legacy, as important as Malcolm X's legacy and as important as Nat Turner.

We are very comfortable we can meet the deadline of opening for the August 2006 school year,

We saw the data, and to be frank, our performance in August did not meet our operational goals, ... Throughout the summer, we faced significant challenges because of severe weather. In particular, the hurricane impacted our operations significantly.

The investor demand wasn't there. In terms of pricing, this is the worst week since August 2000.

The Fed will welcome this report as it suggests that slower economic growth will be extended into the third quarter. The probability of an August rate increase continues to diminish and is now below 50 percent.

The Fed will probably cut rates in both August and October by 25 basis points (a quarter-percentage point) each. We really don't know what they will do beyond that.

Cindy Sheehan

I'm going to be sad to leave on August 31st. And you know what? I won't be escaping. I'll be going, and we're going, to take Camp Casey to Congress.

In August 1987 you had 61 percent bulls and 19 percent bears, and then the crash a couple of months later. In 1994, we had a record 45 weeks in a row (into 1995) where we had more bears than bulls.

Maurice Allais

In August 1914, my father was called to war and then taken prisoner. He died in captivity in Germany on March 27, 1915. My youth - indeed, my entire life - was deeply marked by this, directly and indirectly.

It's our seventh No. 1 opening for the year. 'Desperado,' which we were very happy with, grossed $25.4 million for the entire run (after its $7.9 million opening in August 1995).

It's our seventh No. 1 opening for the year, ... 'Desperado,' which we were very happy with, grossed $25.4 million for the entire run (after its $7.9 million opening in August 1995).

Despite expected revenue declines, our results in July and August exceeded expectations, evidence of our much improved operations, ... However, the dramatic economic downturn since the events of Sept. 11 resulted in an unprecedented loss in September, driven by disproportionate revenue decreases during the last two weeks of the month.

Conditions in August continued to be very tough for retailers and many fear the outlook is going to get worse before it improves.

Even with the weakness in the headline number, the rest of the story looks good. June, July, August have all shown strength in retail sales outside of autos.

That's really going to tell the tale of whether the (U.S. Federal Reserve) will raise interest rates or not. It will probably determine whether August is a good month (for stocks) or not.

Mike Moran

The August reading on existing home sales was inflated to a degree by pent up demand from the prior month. But it also showed that the housing market should be well maintained at current interest rates.

The August jobs report gave Wall Street just what it wanted.