Jeff Davis Quotes

"No, I don't believe it was."

"They have a lot of growth characteristics, a great acquisition strategy to preserve margins. No matter what happens to the economy here in the fourth quarter and the first quarter of next year, (the company has) a good, broad diversified industrial clientele (and) a lot of good markets ."

"It's not just simple math here. It's not just one for one."

"We just left two balls in the middle of the plate. It was the fourth league game in five days, we were a little tired."

"We like, in energy, Williams Companies, which has been beaten down a little bit in the first quarter because of questions about accounting. But, again, I think they're a very clean company but natural gas pipeline is their business. We think, in the energy area, Exxon, which took a bad hit this week, is probably attractive at this point in time,"

"My sister is at peace with herself. I'm proud that she came forward, never sorry for the things my sister does."

"The most gruesome scene that we see is this woman in the cage getting her fingernails clipped. We never see any stabbings. We never see any stranglings. I very much think that you don't have to show it to scare the audience. And when I wrote that scene, everybody told me I was sick. But it's just a woman getting her nails clipped."

"It was ugly basketball at it's best. We won the game on the free throw line."

"The Army calls it 'consequence management'. We've been searching a lot of houses in the area -- finding [weapons] caches. It's somewhat disruptive, so we want to go back in with food, school supplies; make sure everyone is OK."

"We wanted to make a record that challenged kids to listen to it from beginning to end. We wanted them to sit with headphones on and listen to it and read the lyrics, go back to the way it used to be."

"There's cash on the sidelines and a lack of buying commitment as people wait until they can sort out the earnings coming in this week, ... People are waiting to hear if any new trends developed at the end of the quarter, and what they can extrapolate from that about the second and third quarters. In that kind of environment, it's easy to have a little selling."

"I guess the big issue is whether you can sustain profit growth, and everybody's looking at certain factors that will influence the ability for companies to report -- well, for above consensus expectations -- a good report. I think commodity prices, rising interest rates, are having a lagged negative effect on some earnings of major leading corporations. It's not impacting this quarter, but probably the third and the fourth quarter. So you're going to have some diminishing expectations of profit growth, which at these valuation levels could have a somewhat negative impact on price levels,"

"I can think of nothing but savoring the bittersweet taste of revenge as justice is served upon this social sewage here before us today."

"They always do that, ... because they think we're going to start some kind of trouble with him."

"The third inning was a good offensive inning for us. It really set the tone and helped us settle in."

"discussed military-to-military cooperation and ways that the United States can continue to help as part of its security assistance program for Colombia."

"I guess the big issue is whether you can sustain profit growth, and everybody's looking at certain factors that will influence the ability for companies to report -- well, for above consensus expectations -- a good report. I think commodity prices, rising interest rates, are having a lagged negative effect on some earnings of major leading corporations. It's not impacting this quarter, but probably the third and the fourth quarter. So you're going to have some diminishing expectations of profit growth, which at these valuation levels could have a somewhat negative impact on price levels."

"It's hard to stomach that you go 17-3 and get nothing for it."

"You know it's going to be four quarters of football, ... It's not like we haven't seen them before. But there's a little more adrenaline this week."

"We started with a bunch of scattered notes and half ideas. It was just an idea for a short story originally. I had written a lot of stuff, and when we had the idea to do a concept record, it was one of the ideas I brought to the table."