Famous Quotes & Sayings

Consumers continued to spend right up to Christmas. Considering the post-holiday sales over the next few weeks and consumers' eagerness to purchase items they may not have received during the holidays, we expect that spending in the final days of 2004 will continue to rise.

Consumers continued to shop right up until the very last minute on Christmas Eve as seen by our spike in sales.

Consumer confidence is a blow-out number. It also ought to make people feel better about Christmas sales.

Ever since Christmas the kids said they were sick of getting pushed around and the least we can do is go and fight. I can't say enough about our kids' effort. It was unbelievable.

It's Christmas in May for traders. This was the wrong decision, and we're all going to pay the price for it.

Charles Dickens

It's Christmas Day! said Scrooge to himself. ""I haven't missed it. The Spirits have done it all in one night. They can do anything they like. Of course they can. Of course they can.

Ali LeRoi

It's Chris Rock. He separates our show from all the other shows that use that device.

This is like Christmas in the middle of September. We're 2-0 and we're healthy heading into a bye week.

This is just profit-taking, ... There was no event trigger at all. People had a good trade on (selling dollars) either side of Christmas and now it's just coming off.

J. August Richards

Once I found out that I was playing 'Deathlok,' I unearthed my old comic book collection. I was going home for Christmas, and I have a collection of thousands of comics. I was surprised to see that 90% of them were Marvel. So, I wanted to go through my collection and start there.

A church has no right to make anything a condition of membership which Christ has not made a condition of salvation.

Walter Scott

A Christmas gambol oft could cheerThe poor man's heart through half the year.

John Brady

It's not Christmas, it's New Year's. But maybe we gave them a game.

Brandon Routh

It's all of those people and most notably Chris is part of it, too, because he was who my Superman was.

Billy Mitchell

I told them to set picks for each other. I told Chris Thompson to get it inside to Ryan Grayson or Cortez. Cortez got the rebound and put it back up.

It's not just getting an earlier start on the Christmas season, it's getting to shoppers before they see their first heating bills, while the weather is still good.

It's not my worst Christmas. I had Christmases where I never got presents, when I was little where we wrapped up anything just (to have something) to open up. But to lose on Christmas, it's pretty (expletive).

For me, it still has that element of Christmas. I can't wait to see what's coming out next, all the new stuff.

I just wrote 'Merry Christmas John' on my balloon.

I love the smell of a real Christmas tree - also, my mum's Christmas pudding with brandy sauce.

I'm sure there's a few of us in here who would like to get to the plus, but I don't think you can really put too much into it. There's probably some truth to it, but it's not something that I'm overly worried about. I'm pretty responsible, and I know Chris is pretty responsible defensively.

Tim Collins

I'm sure it's a smart thing to do if it's Chris doing it.

Victoria Jackson

I'm sure that if I weren't a Christian, I would probably end up like Chris Farley.

That's the good thing since Christmas, we haven't had to rely on one player. For 2 1/2 seasons, we had to rely on one player. If they were hot, we were hot. If they were not, we were not. It's been really nice to have five, six, seven, eight guys to throw at them. I'm very proud of them.

That is money, money, money for 10 days around Christmas and New Year's, ... Everything makes a lot of money.

That is difficult. The combination of having to finish the district schedule two weeks before the tournament and not wanting to play district games before Christmas makes us load up on our schedule.

Gary Player

That putt Chris made, I take my hat off to him, ... What a day's golf.

Everyone has been lulled into thinking that since we haven't yet had a Christmas rally, there won't be one. But there are a few days left this week, and I still think there could be a surprise rally.

Everyone has the Christmas blues. Investors are now concerned the US economy may be about to slow down.

Everybody's gone. They all had a place to go for Christmas, and this is probably the first year that's ever happened. It's definitely unusual, but everybody had a relative or someone to stay with. It's a quirk of fate, I guess.

It seemed to me as we were talking about Christ rising from the dead, the sun popped over the mountain. That was indicative of Christ rising - a new day. It just makes sense.

It was nice to win coming out of the Christmas break. We did some nice things getting it inside on the zone. I think we'll see a lot of zone in the second half of the season.

Tom Izzo

It was like Santa's elves working on Christmas day.