Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

I've got so many mixed emotions right now. I'm angry. I'm disappointed. I'm anxious, at the same time, to get out and I want to continue to play. I'm sad that I'm going to be home for Christmas.

Dana Williams

Oh my word, man. It just comes to life for you as a parent. My goodness, no wonder Christmas has hung in there all these years, 'cause all these parents dig it.

Next Christmas will be the HSDPA Christmas. We'll be launching a full portfolio of 3.6Mbps HSDPA handsets -- low, middle and high-tier -- in the second half of this year.

Not having it would be like not having Christmas.

It was a good Christmas present for us to win.

It was a good Christmas for electronics. It was a hot area. There's some good momentum.

This may be the last round of refinancing, and it could actually save the Christmas season.

Tom Green

This market is just trying to get to Christmas because it really doesn't know what it's doing, ... It's just hopefully going to have some good earnings eventually.

This man was extremely involved in medications, and on top of that, he had angioplasty two days before Christmas for that.

Tom Izzo

This is the greatest time of the year. For nine, 10 years, we've gotten better over Christmas.

This is usually a slow time, the lull after Christmas.

If you prayed for a white Christmas, you should have been more specific.

Bruce Babbitt

In the spirit of the Christmas season I'm delivering a gift to the mining industry,

I prefer to think the kid who took him has grown up now, and has his own kids. He now probably knows how important the spirit of Christmas is.

Investors are now reevaluating U.S.-dependent stocks as hopes slowly emerge for the Christmas season.

If you see a Christmas tree on its side, that means a danger area, so stay away from it. It could be thin ice, open water or a crack.