Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Scioscia

Paul stayed in Chicago for very important reasons, and I respect that. He felt a huge connection with that organization. He blossomed into a star there, and his bond with the city and fans was very strong. He would have been an incredible fit for us, but I respect the reasons he stayed in Chicago.

Steven Wright

Our modelling suggest bond yields should rise in line with the US by at least 1 per cent. The X factor remains any flow-on effect from petrol prices.

People haven't heard that (reassessment) mentioned as a consideration in this bond referendum.

I think that the next move with interest rates is going to be up and, quite frankly, ... the numbers we saw this morning were stronger than expectations and so we see that the consumer is not slowing down at all and you have the bond market a little on the edge.

Last Friday's unexpectedly weak employment report caused interest rates on long-term Treasury bonds and, by extension mortgage rates, to fall as investors worried about the health of the U.S. economy.

It is possible that this year will mark the end of the deflation and will bring in a paradigm shift to the bond market next year. Ten-year yields may rise to 2 percent by the end of March next year.

Nicholas Kristof

I think we need to rethink a lot of business skills. In finance, for example, social impact bonds are potentially a way of providing capital for investments that save the public money in a context in which government often doesn't invest in things that would save it money.

Jeff Gordon

I think we're united in a lot more ways. I feel like we were always a family, but I feel like we have a tighter bond with the family. We've all experienced a loss.

Theo Epstein

Ironically, Theo's departure has brought us closer together in many respects, and, thanks to these conversations, we now enjoy the bonds of a shared vision for the organization's future that did not exist on Oct. 31.

Marilyn Nelson

I remember wanting ice skates for some reason and got ice skates from the Gold Bond Stamps.

People are breathing a sigh of relief and bought a few bonds and stocks. Everyone plays, everyone wins.

People are bonded to their pets. For people who have lost everything ... their pet may be the only comfort they had left. These policies put people at risk as well as animals, and we want the government to correct that.

People are awfully comfortable with the outlook for stable Fed (policy), so bonds trade with the stock market.

Pension obligation bonds is just a nice way of saying we're going to go borrow more money to pay for the money that we owe. That means that that debt, if you look at it over 30 years, guess who gets to pay that? You do. The students of today will be the people who are the debt payers of tomorrow.

Pension funds need long bonds and will be eager to buy at the auction. Demand will be quite strong.

If it comes in too weak, you get worries about the economy. If you get a blowout number, everyone will get obsessed about interest rates again, the bond market will go into a tizzy, and stocks will slide.

We now have a 10-year program and $60 million a year with which to buy land by legislation through the government bonding system.

The 30-year bond sales will take the pressure off 10-year notes when it comes to pension fund managers seeking longer duration holdings for their funds. We will see 10-year yields rise again.

I think it will be a good bonding experience.

I think Japanese bond yields are pushing up, and (that is) putting a little pressure on our market also,

I think this has to be put into perspective. We had a huge, huge rally for a long time in the bond market. We are talking about how 10-year yields have fallen from 5.4 percent in March to oh-my-goodness-I-can't-believe-this 3.6 percent.

I'm sure as Bonds gets closer we'll try to come up with something.

Markets were primed for worrying about risk - equities, bonds and currencies too.

John Meyers

Mason City Schools is in violation of the law for using taxpayers' money to oppose or support any bond issue or levy,

I think part of what has driven the market today are fluctuations in oil and interest rates and the bond market.

Julie Walters

We played some really strong competition and made a point to do some bonding during the experience. We weren't perfect, but we certainly played a lot better after that tournament.

We have a lot of factors at play here. It's an accumulation of all the negative economic news this week, capped off by the jobless data this morning, bond yields declining so sharply, and the weak forecasts out of companies. But what really accelerated the selling was the note out of Goldman Sachs about the Fed.

We had intended to have a bond in 2005, but we waited until now. If we wait until November, we have schools that need to be ready for 2008. This gets us six months further down the road to opening those schools.

Felipe Alou

We had injuries, Bonds and (Armando) Benitez. To this day, Bonds hasn't shown up. And a lot of guys didn't have a good season. So you bring up the young guys.

We've had days where I've had kids in my office that are crying and need to share their hearts for a while. It's been tough, but I honestly think it's brought us together in a special way. We've formed a bond that not every team feels. We just know we have to be there for each other.

We have to make sure we bond for everything. Reclamation is more than putting lipstick on the corpse. We need to breathe some life back into the corpse.

We're unlikely to see a rally in medium-term bonds with core consumer prices edging up.

We just bonded together, and decided to get it done.