Famous Quotes & Sayings

Purists can sniff that the new Hi-Fi speaker system is a glorified boom box, but for Microsoft and others the message is clear: Jobs &Co. are coming on strong.

Constructed during a building boom in the 1950s, the 21-storey ICI Building was Australia's tallest freestanding office building at the time of its completion in 1958,

They've gone out of their way to get things right. This will be a big boom for Arkansas.

A lot of people think Federal Express is an Internet play -- it isn't. They forget FedEx is a high-end transportation provider. The transport companies benefiting from the Web boom now are the Post Office and UPS, which are hard to invest in.

A lot of the things we talk about the Generation Y wanting are in complete harmony with what the boomers want in order to stay.

They know their customers better than any casino company in the world, and they know the boomers are coming.

You can't look at these numbers and say things are going to be booming going forward.

Ralph Brown

There was a squeaky sound, a big boom and then I saw lights, ... I just prayed that people would be patient and not get upset like what happened in the Superdome.

George Russell

There isn't going to be any boom or bust,

It seems like every other year there's another boom of movie stars dabbling in TV. The walls between film and TV have really broken down in the past five years.

It's a strong start to the year and the first quarter looks solid. However, we're not in a boom situation by any means. We're still not seeing any breakthrough on the job market.

It's as good as it gets. You've got low inflation, minimal wage pressure, great productivity, booming growth and strong demand.

It wasn't until the 1980s when we lost several really good buildings to another building boom that we woke up to the value of what we had,

Everybody's thinking about the dot-com boom of five years ago, but we're not seeing that. Biotech is a terrific industry and it has terrific jobs, but it's not like a chip factory with tons of jobs. It's not as robust as people would like.

Some boomers may want a view of the website that uses larger fonts. Also, new techno-graphic data indicates that older web users read from left to right, whereas younger users scan the page, searching for what they need.

One day, when the commodity boom ends and foreign investors head for the exits, that could change the picture for the rand.

Now in its fifth year, Taste Washington Spokane has grown to be one of the largest, most popular wine tasting events in Eastern Washington. Taste Washington provides the public with an opportunity to try new Washington wines, meet winemakers and chefs, and celebrate our state's booming wine industry.

The Tea Party folks may be sincere, loyal citizens, but their notions about how the economy works are exactly that: mere notions. Their core notion is that government needs to do nothing more than get out of the way of business in order for the economy to boom and bloom.

The thing about the boomer generation is the sheer volume of it.

Darren Criss

I've always loved Broadway, but I never thought I'd actually do it because I was never a full Broadway dancer. And I don't have a big, booming voice.

These data do further indicate that the housing market has stabilized at a much less ebullient level than seen in the recent boom years. We continue to look for modest house- price inflation going forward.

As long as the oil market remains buoyant, as it does for other commodities, then the Russian economy will prosper. The consumption boom is growing on the back of the wealth being produced by commodity growth.

We have a Fed that wants a booming economy, but the only way the consumer can continue to fuel the economy is through continued debt accumulation. I don't know if there's an easy way out.

It would be huge. All of the major builders in the city are saying a hospital would create a boom for the senior housing market.

Michael Hitchcock

The Saturn Challenge Cup is a key preparation match for the 2006 MLS season. It's a great opportunity to showcase two of Major League Soccer's top teams to a booming soccer market.

This year is really going to be seen as a transition year away from the booming economy to a more moderate pace of growth.

There's just no excuse for them to be demanding concessions from these workers at a time when the economy in B.C. is booming and their excuse about competition just doesn't hold up.

Mark Zandi

There's just a lot more boomer kids out there, and that's cutting up the pie into very small pieces.

We expect some slowdown in the mortgage business as the refinance boom fades,

The metals boom continues and it's very hard to see where it will stop. Investors are so focused on the Chinese raw materials boom that share prices have become an afterthought.

The mining companies have been very frugal with their capital in this boom unlike the past.

India is a booming market and it is logical to set up operations close to the boom.

Increasingly, new forms of content are making their way onto mobile devices - music, in particular, is already booming - and the latest buzz is about television,