Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

Dorothy McGuire

Actually, she was supposed to be a Christmas baby.

Hugh Downs

Something about an old-fashioned Christmas is hard to forget.

Stephen Graham Jones

Some people are born for Halloween, and some are just counting the days until Christmas.

John Daly

So, ... what do you want for Christmas?

June Diane Raphael

One Christmas I had no money, and so I went home and just, like, wrote a poem; I mean, I didn't write them, but I just handed out poems as Christmas presents. Like, 'Here's a Pablo Neruda poem that really made me think of you.'

The monetary policy committee is still waiting for evidence on Christmas (retail) sales and wage negotiations. Then it will cushion the decline in the economy in a context of CPI (inflation) moderation.

Sarah Taylor

During the Christmas season online retailers ship two or three times what they would normally do.

Coming off Christmas practice, we looked pretty good. We've still got some work to do.

There is this psychological game. It has not been a pre-Christmas sale this year, it's been 'special offers'. Encouraging people to shop earlier helps stores with stock and planning. It means there is not so much to be drastically cut in the last week.

As January data are inflated by a growing tendency towards gift vouchers over Christmas, which are then turned into purchases afterwards, a return to normal in February is likely to show up in more subdued sales.

At Christmas time we talked and said we just wanted to get respectability for the franchise. We wanted to be a team that's thought of with respect, one that's tough to come in and play against. That's what we're starting to establish.

Ike Taylor

At Christmas time, he got all the guys these therapeutic shoes to walk around the team complex in. That's what kind of special guy Troy is.

A lot of factors are positive for the sector, there's Christmas turnover, a stronger rand which means interest rates will remain as they are or even another cut as some people are suggesting.

A lot is riding on this Christmas season and I don't think there are great expectations for a strong season. I think there's still a lot of flux out there and there's still room for caution.

They make rugs, scarves, placemats, runners, bags, bookmarks, kitchen towels and Christmas decorations.

This is something our kids have really worked hard for. Winning the Christmas tournament is one of our goals we set for ourselves for this season.

This is positive news leading up to the Christmas sales, suggesting what could be better-than-expected sales and consumer confidence. The Nasdaq could be hurt today as fall-out over Dell continues.

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

This announcement is an early Christmas present for fans of the Greatest Spectacle in Racing.

Frank Lautenberg

This is a Christmas package designed for delivery to the oil industry, and we have got to fight as hard as we can to stop that delivery.

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.

They are still facing hard times in Australia, New Zealand is showing signs of improvement but I think the market will wait to see how they perform during the Christmas season.

Scott Gomez

You don't want to be home for Christmas, let's put it that way.

There was not a nicer, friendlier person. He (Barnes) would hold a Christmas party put on by him and his staff that everyone in the courthouse would go to.

There were 55 winners of prizes valued up to $1 million in Lotto's Christmas promotion, 27 Winning Wheel winners, averaging $200,000 per win, including two players who spun and won $1 million each.

You've heard of 12 days of Christmas. This was 12 years of Christmas for Ryan, Ryan's friends and his family. In short, Ryan sold his office. He might as well have put a for sale sign on his office.

You never get too rich or too famous to enjoy receiving a present. It's like Christmas all year long for some of these celebrities.