Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ramez Naam

I've read science fiction my whole life. I never really dreamed that I'd be a published science fiction writer myself, but a short story I started years ago sort of demanded to be turned into a novel.

Rodrigo Rato

We don't see a great reduction in demand... There have been some hints that demand will be receding in the second quarter, but we see strong demand in the world.

With interest rates rising and demand for new home ownership slowing, it is likely that stronger demand for rental properties will push rental rates up at a higher pace.

With global trade screeching to such a standstill, so, too, should the external demand contributions of most major economies around the world,

With rising demand and lower supply, obviously that's going to put pressure on parking rates.

Matthew Arnold

...what thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.

We've reached the point where employers need to start hiring again, but productivity growth will stay strong, so they can meet some of their increased demand with productivity improvements. That means hiring will be slow and the unemployment rate will stay at about 6 percent for another year and a half or so.

What explains higher prices is the market, ... Demand has grown in other regions of the country, but with respect to existing resources, production is not increasing.

We sometimes forget that the U.S. economy is a quarter of all world demand for oil, so if it slows down it should take some of the froth off the demand side.

Greg Smith

There's high demand for fully electronic trading capabilities of listed stock. Archipelago and the Pacific are rushing to meet that demand,

There's no excess demand in the economy and it's really healthy economic expansion.

There's more inventory in general. There is still more supply than there is demand for online advertising.

There's more demand for it, for the quiet. (People) are looking for the quiet areas.

There's not just a high demand but there is a high quality of players, too.

The total fares are still going to be set at the supply and demand level.

We lost a lot of money, quite frankly, promoting it, and the demand wasn't there, This is not something you can just turn on the faucet and something comes out.

John Williams

The problem for the U.S. is that the economy is growing faster than the rest of the world, and, therefore, our demand for imports far exceeds the demand for our exports by other countries.

Heather Smith

With low vacancy levels and strong demand for space, prime industrial rentals offer further upside potential.

With exports to China, demand -- which had slowed late last year -- is now seeing a solid rebound, and with firm demand in the US continuing, Japanese exports are most likely to maintain brisk gains in the near term.

We hit a lot of quality shots, but we struggled on a hole you can't struggle on. It's a very demanding hole, and if you hit into the water you're usually not going to make better than a bogey. We lost some shots on that hole, which we just shouldn't do.

We expect increased demand in Japan and the Asia-Pacific region for our products and services in the near future.

We expect every sport to be at state and win a state championship. We demand more out of each other. That's where we get our tradition.

We don't want half measures, we demand an amnesty, the immediate and unconditional legalization of the 12 million undocumented workers who work in this country.

We don't think it was anything more than seasonal demand weakness.

We're going to be expecting that every play of every series in every game. We know they can do it now. So, we're going to demand it from them.

The Journal is spreading rumors that Microsoft's music subscription service -- itself a rumor -- is on hold due to heavy royalty demands from labels.

Ruben Aguilar

The Mexican government is demanding an investigation of the facts.

The minimum demand is a free election to a constituent assembly.

Albert Bandura

The Iowa Psychology Department was not Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood. It was, indeed, an intellectually lively and demanding place where major theoretical issues were pursued with a passion. It was refreshingly free of colorless eclecticism.

The inventory problems that plagued the first half of the year have been largely erased and we expect the market to perform better in the next six months with improved demand for low-cost and portable PCs.

The Fed has pledged to keep the economy and inflation in check, which they're doing now, which will keep the fed funds rate going higher. Low inflation and global demand for U.S. Treasuries will remain strong in 2006, which will keep long rates low.

Malcolm Gladwell

In cognitively demanding fields, there are no naturals. Nobody walks into an operating room straight out of a surgical rotation and does world-class neurosurgery.

In many ways, it's easier to write a book. You have more latitude with structure, and you have the freedom to luxuriate within the internal lives and musings of your characters. But where a screenplay does not always demand great prose, a novel lives or dies by it.