Famous Quotes & Sayings

A possible explanation is that the data correction is overcorrecting the impact of the five Saturdays in December, which would explain why the data is poor when the retailers reported strong Christmas sales.

Jacob Latimore

As far as R&B, I listen to a lot of old school like the Temptations and Chris Brown.

Mitch Hedberg

A severed foot is the perfect stocking stuffer.

Our duty as doctors is to treat patients. Looking back, I would have done the same thing and kept treating patients... Why didn't they shoot me while I was out? Did they have to send the parcel home? They should be ashamed,

Our expectations are that on Christmas day the court will just have a hearing. But it may hold another session in the next few days and issue a final verdict.

John Catsimatidis

People tell me, 'You better lose weight if you want to run for mayor.' I said, 'I got the Chris Christie look.'

Northwest Christian served really aggressively and we struggled with our serve-receive game. After the first game, we did better, got more consistent with our serve and we were able to pass in our serve-receive game. That was our focus that got us the win.

Francis Beaumont

Nose, nose, jolly red nose, / And who gave thee this jolly red nose? . . . / Nutmegs and ginger, cinnamon and cloves, / And they gave me this jolly red nose.

The mother wasn't a naturalized citizen. Her husband kept her passport, and he walked out on her. We got a wish list from them. We also took them food for a Christmas dinner. They were thrilled.

Peter Forsberg

The one thing that kept coming up about Chris is his competitive nature. It kept coming up over and over again: This is a guy than can help win hockey games.

After Christmas, we won four in a row. But three of the games we had lost (on the season) were on last-second shots. Plus we had a double-overtime loss and an overtime loss. So it's not like we weren't playing well.

John Schultz

Enthusiasm for his life, enthusiasm for his job, enthusiasm to get to his family for Christmas.

encourages his players to live a Christian life.

DUI arrests during the Christmas holiday doubled statewide from last year. We had 1,209 statewide DUI arrests versus 622 in 2004.

Each year we try to make our park better than the last, and this year I am confidant we have accomplished just that. We have had several delays to the park opening, but it was an excellent Christmas surprise and I think people will find it was worth the wait.

Feb. 2, that's when we take the tree down. Christmas lasts until that day.

There's pretty much nobody home in the foreign brokerages now due to Christmas celebrations, and domestic institutional investors have no particular incentive to trade either.

Lanny Poffo

There was a big controversy... people were saying... Chris Jericho treated me really well in the dressing room, he said, 'You were the first guy to ever do that.' No, I was the first guy to steal it from Tiger Mask. I don't want credit for doing things that I didn't do.

Corbin Bernsen

'Rust' really started with the passing of my dad, and me really looking back inward to my self about where I stand with all things on a faith/religious/spiritual level. And it's really put me on this interesting road and very educational, I might add, road back to understanding the role of faith in God and Christ in my life.

O. Henry

prepare Christian men and women who will lead our nation and shape our culture with timeless biblical values and fidelity to the spirit of the American founding.

Victor Borge

Santa Claus has the right idea: visit people once a year

Sales momentum during the Christmas holiday season in Mexico failed to live up to expectations and last year's performance.

Randy was a devoted Christian and loved people, and I'll always remember that big, wide smile on his face. ... He was a very dear, dear friend, and I'm going to miss him a lot.

Rather than the doom and gloom we've been hearing, the consumer hasn't packed it in, and Christmas sales will be reasonably good.

Prices are off after a big rise during Christmas and New Year. With uncertainty over the Venezuelan strike and OPEC's response, I would expect volatile trade over the next few days.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Profound questions regarding the purpose of life have led many individuals and families throughout the world to search for truth. Often that search has led them to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and to the restored gospel.

Proceeds from this event will go towards our new downtown Christmas decorations. We have picked out the decorations, this event will help pay for them.

Olaf Kolzig

Probably around Christmas time I had my mind made up that I definitely wanted to stay. So from there it took about six weeks to get it done. I'm glad we got it done before I went to Italy because when we get back there's only two weeks before the trade deadline. I'm relieved it's over.

Our defense was terrific. They didn't get many shots through and when they did, Chris was outstanding. He played with confidence and handled the rebounds really well. It was just a good overall performance.

A story from 'Last Barrier' aptly illustrates it. The Turkish Sufi Master tells his Christians devotee that every morning he sends a message of love to no one particular; whoever is ready, listens to it, responds.

At Thanksgiving, we got to eat inside and it was great! Our time was winding down. But we saw places being decorated with Christmas ornaments.

Oren Arnold

Don't expect too much of Christmas Day. You can't crowd into it any arrears of unselfishness and kindliness that may have accrued during the past twelve months.

The upside in the semiconductors didn't happen. Some people were expecting it given the strong handset sales in the Christmas season.