Famous Quotes & Sayings

We don't see a bubble because the strength didn't come from speculative demand. It came from low 30-year mortgage rates, good demographics and other good fundamental factors that boosted demand. Even if demand declines, we won't see home sales falling off a cliff.

We'll have to see how it plays out and how he's coming along, but certainly he's on the bubble of playing for the Hurricanes. He's a very good player, the type of player that's hard to find in that he's big and strong, and plays the game really hard on every shift.

Richard Davis

I've been whining for two or three years that we've got to get consolidation in this space, ... In the bubble you had way too many companies go public. All these companies turned out to be features and not companies. Now part of the driver is a realization by the big companies that this is a way to capture growth.

the worldwide real estate bubble and its aftermath.

We had the scare of our life a year ago, being on the bubble in February. We don't want to relive that experience.

The problem existed long before (the Internet bubble burst in March 2000).

These monthly numbers are very erratic. It can be that this is a sign (of the bubble bursting), but I would never make too much of one month's number. Especially since the other timely data we get, the mortgage applications for home purchases, have still been pretty high.

The speculative bubble has been taken out of the stock.

I've got a feeling we're on the bubble for double digits.

The big men and women of government live in a safe and luxurious bubble and have no idea what ordinary South Africans go through every day.

Alan Greenspan

The notion of a bubble bursting and the whole price level coming down ... as a national phenomenon is really quite unlikely,

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.

A bursting of the housing bubble could result in a severe recession.

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.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

That incredible bubble and high expectations built at festivals can work against a film.

It's still fears over further disruptions in Nigeria, and the Iranian situation continues to bubble underneath the surface. Whatever OPEC says, the market is unlikely to pay much attention. They lost control of the market last year, and to cut production with oil near $70 would be irresponsible.

Lev Grossman

Even though I have spent literally years of my life trying to learn another language, any other language - and even though I have in the past claimed in several key professional contexts that I speak other languages - I am in fact still trapped inside the bubble of English.

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.

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.

Dan Hawkins

I'd love to have a bubble . . . but you've got to deal with what you've got to deal with. That's life as we know it and we'll deal with it.

The long-anticipated bubble has certainly not burst and is probably not in existence. It's a favorable outlook for the rest of the year.

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.

We've never seen this size of a housing bubble before, so in a sense we're in kind of a strange place right now.

Jonathan Miller

There was a negative swirl in the market; every pronouncement using the bubble term made buyers pause. We are not seeing prices fall; we are just seeing fewer sales.

Steve Sampson

Sometimes that's even more difficult because these are the guys on the bubble as far as making the World Cup squad for Korea. They're going to be fighting the hardest to win a spot; sometimes they're the most dangerous teams to play against.

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.