Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Zandi

If Greenspan had been stronger in his views, then the bubble would not have been as large and the subsequent correction not as severe.

John Battelle

I don't think this is the sound of a bubble deflating. I don't think we're in a bubble. But maybe this is a reminder that outsized expectations are, well, outsized.

Brandon Moore

Being a guy who was on the bubble all the time and being a guy who could get fired at any moment is no fun. It's really a stress mentally. The stress now is to prove myself to my teammates, to the fans of San Francisco and have an impact on the team.

Ben Olsen

I'm trying to be realistic about this thing and I'm obviously a bubble player. Where I am on that bubble is up to Bruce. If people don't get healthy and he needs a guy who can play in several positions, he knows I can fill in those spots if he gets into injury trouble with the other guys.

I'll miss the old building. But look at it ? it's all torn open. It was just held together with bubble gum.

He's staying with the position he had before. There are local bubbles but no national bubble.

He's thinking about legacy building at this point and the one thing he doesn't want to do is leave at the top of an immense bubble and have it burst soon after he leaves. He kind of touched on it yesterday in relation to the housing market.

House prices are accelerating, and maybe you can say that's a bubble or not and there will be some correction down the road.

It was a roster-maintenance move. Kris was on the bubble for us. They had inquired about him several times. We're always looking for defensive linemen. ... Obviously, it's not a world-beater trade.

They love to fill the tub up with bubbles and then run to the shower to rinse off.

Kevin Constantine

It's easy to know the guys who are on the team, but we have that bubble of eight to 10 spots that we need to make decisions on. All the guys that are competing for those spots did a good job. We'd rather have that. It's going to make for difficult decisions eventually, but it's good to see that the guys competing for those spots can play.

For a bubble this size, this is very close.

Richard Wright

It's not without its hiccups. You don't go in expecting things to always work smoothly, but Romanians are geniuses at what we might consider to be jury-rigged solutions. The power plant might be held together by paper clips and bubble gum, but it works.

Richard Wright

It's not without its hiccups, ... You don't go in expecting things to always work smoothly, but Romanians are geniuses at what we might consider to be jury-rigged solutions. The power plant might be held together by paper clips and bubble gum, but it works.

Peter Thiel

A true bubble is when something is overvalued and intensely believed.

There's an idealism starting to bubble up again. Today's kids aren't the materialist, MBA, Bonfire-of-the-Vanities types that you saw in the late 1980s and early 1990s. They're also not the weary, cynical types who think they can't do anything.

Cammi Granato

I had a good camp. I felt like I was really going. Moving well, shooting well, and confident in me and our team, ... I was never told I was on a bubble to make the team.

If there were a bubble in California and if it were to burst, that would be a national economic catastrophe.

Shia LaBeouf

I think, my generation, it's hard to have hope when you got a $700-trillion derivatives debt to pay and a bubble about to explode and $500 trillion worth of GDP.

I'm from a rural town outside of Stockholm, so in coming to L.A., I've been able to not think that much about my background. It's much easier for me in this big town, this big bubble to isolate myself from that and be a little more self-confident. I'm here to do my take on soul.

I'm seeing some gradual softening of about 5 percent in real estate prices so far this year, but nothing precipitous that would indicate a bubble exists.

If May was a temporary aberration, the big bubble of incentives may be over before they start. They may only last a month or two. If sales are really slowing down, consumers are going to see a lot more incentives in the coming months.

If Nanak could be the dust of their feet, then he, the ignorant one, might also obtain some. Who is our mother, and who is our father? Where did we come from? We are formed from the fire of the womb within, and the bubble of water of the sperm. For what purpose are we created?

Henry Blodget

The environment continues to worsen versus our expectations, and we continue to think the seasonally weak first quarter will be the toughest quarter in terms of year-over-year growth. We also continue to expect the market to strengthen in the second half of the year, when the impact of the dot.com bubble has worked its way out of the system.

Dan Smith

The heavy, wet snow just really compacted on top of the bubble. The bubble was very inefficient.

You've got a bubble in bonds. There is a panic to buy debt just like there was a panic to buy stocks in 1999.

The gigantic speculative bubble is popping. We're at a point where some short-term upside pressure is coming off. But I wouldn't be at all surprised to see prices at a new high a year from now.

The Girl Who Loves Bubbles and Talks To Plants

Ben Bernanke

The downturn following the collapse of Japan's so-called bubble economy of the 1980s was not as severe as the Great Depression.

We say it's a bubble, but a housing bubble does not pop like a stock market bubble, ... A stock market bubble, when it pops, lots of market activity, prices dropping rapidly. Housing prices don't drop that way because there's a huge fixed cost. You don't day-trade your home.

These kind of bubbles are something that everyone participates in. That's why they are bubbles.