These numbers were highly impacted if not distorted by Hurricane Katrina.
HUGH JOHNSON If I thought Cisco was going to grow 40 percent for one year, I would never pay two-plus the growth ...
HUGH JOHNSON Tobacco is the best performing industry in every single bear market,
HUGH JOHNSON It's uncharacteristic of him to make big-picture investments, ... This whole area -- zero coupons, s...
HUGH JOHNSON When you say the stock market is overvalued, you imply that the stock market is going down. But ther...
HUGH JOHNSON It's very hard to attribute it to an event or release because there is none. I certainly wouldn't at...
HUGH JOHNSON Ordinarily, we would have a technical bounce at this level. But then the question is, have you seen ...
HUGH JOHNSON If you're going to bet on economists and strategists on one hand, and the markets on the other, take...
HUGH JOHNSON The earnings picture is really good now, but, you know, enjoy it while it lasts. Third and fourth qu...
HUGH JOHNSON When the markets struggled for a technical bounce in the morning, that was investors sending a messa...
HUGH JOHNSON By the way, you wouldn't edit this paper, would you? I've sold it, and I'm looking for an editor. An...
HUGH JOHNSON It's too soon to call it a meaningful trend.
HUGH JOHNSON It's going to be a fly-by-the-seat of our pants kind of week.
HUGH JOHNSON The most important thing is that the stock market had declined to levels that were arguably underval...
HUGH JOHNSON AOL is one of the big three in Internet shares,
HUGH JOHNSON ultimately extremely good news for the health of the market.
HUGH JOHNSON We're seeing a very substantial shift going on in the market.
HUGH JOHNSON We got down too far too fast. You reach a level that attracts buyers.
HUGH JOHNSON I think we've seen technology take a tumble a number of times and come right back. Most professional...
HUGH JOHNSON One message we get is that the stocks people buy when they're scared -- basic materials, beverages, ...
HUGH JOHNSON That's pretty good news because it means investors did not become defensive. They remain optimistic,
HUGH JOHNSON The market needs to let earnings catch up -- wait until we get closer to the year 2000, when we can ...
HUGH JOHNSON I think the momentum is on hold.
HUGH JOHNSON [They] face each other across the road like mad old duchesses in party clothes.
HUGH JOHNSON Sex is the driving force on the planet. We should embrace it, not see it as the enemy.
HUGH HEFNER I'm lucky to have worked in theater all over the world, but there's something magical about ...
HUGH JACKMAN There is anxiety, but it comes after you've finished filming because it's out of your hands;...
HUGH JACKMAN I've always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It d...
HUGH JACKMAN I lived with a coffee farmer called Dukale on a trip I made with World Vision to Ethiopia, and reali...
HUGH JACKMAN I'm not a loner at all.
HUGH JACKMAN In terms of theater, there's not a more supportive theater community than in New York. It's ...
HUGH JACKMAN I remember at one point being in fellowship, and everyone used to wear the fish symbol; it said you ...
HUGH JACKMAN I'm an actor who believes we all have triggers to any stage of emotion. It's not always easy...
HUGH JACKMAN Your wife is always right. Very simple. I think I'm going to get it tattooed on my forehead.
HUGH JACKMAN With age, you see people fail more. You see yourself fail more. How do you keep that fearlessness of...
HUGH JACKMAN Anyone who thinks they're indispensible is fooling themselves.
HUGH JACKMAN My father is a real idealist, and he's all about learning. If I asked for a pair of Nikes growin...
HUGH JACKMAN The secret to modern life is finding the measure in time management. I have two kids, career and I t...
HUGH JACKMAN To get down to the quick of it, respect motivates me - not success.
HUGH JACKMAN I was probably more scared of my high school exams than I was of the Oscars. At the time you think i...
HUGH JACKMAN To me, the smell of fresh-made coffee is one of the greatest inventions.
HUGH JACKMAN It doesn't rain at all in California. Once a month, a man drives through spraying Evian.
HUGH LAURIE Historically the Puritans left England to escape religious persecution, and they promptly turned aro...
HUGH HEFNER I slightly lost my enthusiasm for most acting, but I've done some little bits and pieces - curio...
HUGH GRANT Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.
HUGH MILLER It's good to be selfish. But not so self-centered that you never listen to other people.
HUGH HEFNER As a real person, he wouldn't last a minute, would he? But drama is about imperfection. And we&#...
HUGH LAURIE My first wife was a brunette, and Barbi Benton, my major romantic relationship of the early 1970s, w...
HUGH HEFNER I just came from South Africa, a place that had been in a perpetual uprising since 1653, so the upri...
HUGH MASEKELA History shows that all protest movements rely on symbols - boycotts, strikes, sit-ins, flags, songs....
HUGH EVANS I think that's the whole point of Bridget Jones. It's all about that it's okay to fail.
HUGH GRANT I used to pre-rehearse everything and then bring my pre-rehearsed performance to the set. Now, I'...
HUGH GRANT I used to pre-rehearse everything and then bring my pre-rehearsed performance to the set. Now, I'...
HUGH GRANT Brexit was a fantastic example of a nation shooting itself full in the face.
HUGH GRANT Love expands.
HUGH PRATHER Global poverty is the product of reversible policy failures overseen by politicians, past and presen...
HUGH EVANS I don't have any particular burning desire to go back to being cuddly. Not really.
HUGH GRANT Most actors really love it, that's what they want to do. They burn to do it. And so they'll ...
HUGH GRANT It's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to make a blues ...
HUGH LAURIE 'Notting Hill?' Does that poke fun at being British? Maybe it does. In 'Mickey Blue Eyes...
HUGH GRANT Sticks and stones may break bones, but words do more damage than most people can imagine. Especially...
HUGH ROSS I was very influenced by the musicals and romantic comedies of the 1930s. I admired Gene Harlow and ...
HUGH HEFNER Picasso had his pink period and his blue period. I am in my blonde period right now.
HUGH HEFNER A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.
HUGH MACLENNAN Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.
HUGH PRATHER There comes a certain point in life when you have to stop blaming other people for how you feel or t...
HUGH JACKMAN Don't play for safety--it's the most dangerous thing in the world.
HUGH WALPOLE It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that act...
HUGH LAURIE A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain...
HUGH DOWNS If you delay till to-morrow what ought to be done to-day, you overcharge the morrow with a burden wh...
HUGH BLAIR Beauty is whatever gives joy.
HUGH NIBLEY Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner.
HUGH BLAIR Worry not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticipating and ...
HUGH BLAIR Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.
HUGH BLAIR What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.
HUGH BLAIR The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.
HUGH BLAIR To me, he's a hero, ... He's not polite. He's not someone you want to take home to meet your mother,...
HUGH LAURIE I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.
HUGH HAMILTON Worry not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticipating and...
HUGH BLAIR He’d only ever seen a gun once, a smaller one on the hip of that old deputy, a gun he’d always f...
HUGH HOWEY Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties
HUGH BLAIR When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and...
HUGH WHITE Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn't hold much wate...
HUGH ELLIOTT I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, a...
HUGH ELLIOTT Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right ...
HUGH ELLIOTT If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
HUGH ELLIOTT I grew up with an impatience with the anti-scientific. So I'm a bit miffed with our current love...
HUGH LAURIE I feel when acting, I am sometimes overly self-conscious; I think, 'Going, no, don't, put yo...
HUGH LAURIE My favorite play in drama school was 'The Bacchae.' It's about a king who literally gets...
HUGH JACKMAN I wouldn't be able to act like Al Pacino or play the piano like Dr. John, But I could probably a...
HUGH LAURIE Of course, you always have to be concerned about hijacking. But with the measures that are in place ...
HUGH SHELTON But it's been a great, humbling - and I've been very honored to have the opportunity to serv...
HUGH SHELTON Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.
HUGH WALPOLE Fundamentalist Christians, adhering to what is termed 'creation science,' loudly promote the...
HUGH ROSS I had a fairly enlightened dad, though if you looked at his resume, it might not seem that way. He w...
HUGH JACKMAN If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.
HUGH PRATHER I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too o...
HUGH LAURIE I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's m...
HUGH HEFNER Women are frightening. If you get to 41 as a man, you're quite battle-scarred.
HUGH GRANT We came back right over the World Trade Center and could see, even from that altitude, the devastati...
HUGH SHELTON And I particularly like the whole thing of being boss. Boss and employee... It's the slave quali...
HUGH GRANT Save for thee and thy lessons, man in society would everywhere sink into a sad compound of the fiend...
HUGH MILLER They can see the brave silhouette from almost anywhere in the District of Columbia and use it as a c...
HUGH SIDEY The financing of all TV shows is dictated by finding an audience between 18 and 49. I have now passe...
HUGH LAURIE Becoming a father, I think it inevitably changes your perspective of life. I don't get nearly en...
HUGH JACKMAN In my wildest dreams, I could not have imagined a sweeter life.
HUGH HEFNER Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irr...
HUGH MACKAY I run six-to-eight miles a day, plus weights and aerobics in the lunch hour. I also lie a lot, which...
HUGH LAURIE The strange thing - and this is one of the advantages of being incredibly shallow and superficial - ...
HUGH LAURIE Creating my own world in a comic or selling my first penny newspaper aged nine was a way of gaining ...
HUGH HEFNER Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.
HUGH PRATHER I had spent some time in the outback, but to meet Aboriginals and work with them was wonderful. It g...
HUGH JACKMAN To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in...
HUGH PRATHER Whenever we condemn, we cloak the world in pain.
HUGH PRATHER Negative feedback is better that none. I would rather have a man hate me than overlook me. As long a...
HUGH PRATHER Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness. It's like the ultimate rest. It's better...
HUGH JACKMAN I frequently dream of having tea with the Queen.
HUGH GRANT Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.
HUGH BLAIR It's much more straightforward to get finance when you have an Oscar.
HUGH HUDSON What people don't know about oppression is that the oppressor works much harder. You always grew...
HUGH MASEKELA I have been instrumental in banning bottled water on the set. It hasn't gone that well with the ...
HUGH LAURIE I think that retirement is the first step towards the grave.
HUGH HEFNER Some researchers sensibly suggest that rather than worrying too much about which programs our childr...
HUGH MACKAY On average, Australians watch more than three hours of television a day, compared with 12 minutes a ...
HUGH MACKAY Recounting their histories, people often sound like interested bystanders to their own lives.
HUGH MACKAY But the rule seems to be that the bigger and more life-changing the decision, the less it will seem ...
HUGH MACKAY Indeed, in the present climate of mistrust of institutions, many people who yearn for a more meaning...
HUGH MACKAY It's Australian to do such things because, however uncivilised they may seem, it's human to ...
HUGH MACKAY I'm in total sympathy with Dick Smith's sentiments; I only wish there were grounds for sayin...
HUGH MACKAY Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely con...
HUGH MACKAY Reading is a huge effort for many people, a bore for others, and, believe it or not, many people pre...
HUGH MACKAY The copycat effects of media violence, similar to those previously attributed to westerns, radio ser...
HUGH MACKAY The question is, will we continue to fight what may be a rearguard action to defend universal litera...
HUGH MACKAY Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familia...
HUGH MACKAY I wish we didn't have to own up to a policy deliberately designed to inflict suffering on people...
HUGH MACKAY It seems inevitable that the magic of the written word will fade.
HUGH MACKAY The underlying message of the Lancet article is that if you want to understand aggressive behaviour ...
HUGH MACKAY Still, most of those effects occur in the context of harmless play and it is patently obvious that c...
HUGH MACKAY Perhaps it's the people whose lives have taken sudden new twists - people who have learned to em...
HUGH MACKAY Parents should be encouraged to read to their children, and teachers should be equipped with all ava...
HUGH MACKAY No one welcomes chaos, but why crave stability and predictability?
HUGH MACKAY Actually, I can't imagine anything more tedious than a perfect person, especially if it was some...
HUGH MACKAY Obviously, every child should be given the best possible opportunity to acquire literacy skills.
HUGH MACKAY One reason we resist making deliberate choices is that choice equals change and most of us, feeling ...
HUGH MACKAY So, if falling crime rates coincide with the rise of violent video games and increasing violence on ...
HUGH MACKAY When I come home, my daughter will run to the door and give me a big hug, and everything that's ...
HUGH JACKMAN Screenwriting is the most prized of all the cinematic arts. Actually, it isn't, but it should be...
HUGH LAURIE I have done many movies that people hadn't seen. 'The Fountain,' I spent a year on that....
HUGH JACKMAN Girls are complicated. The instruction manual that comes with girls is 800 pages, with chapters 14, ...
HUGH LAURIE I find that kid actors are great reminders of the simplicity of acting. As you get older, you can so...
HUGH JACKMAN I think there is a basic comfort in clever people who know things.
HUGH LAURIE The truth is, I'd never seen a Cary Grant film. Since then I have watched his stuff and it's...
HUGH GRANT The Westwood Cemetery is just a few blocks from my home, and a number of my very dear friends are bu...
HUGH HEFNER I think pain is a very - it's an extremely hard thing to empathize moment to moment. And you oft...
HUGH LAURIE Perfectionism is a slow death....If everything were to turn out just as I would want it, just as I w...
HUGH PRATHER I think that the American people should rest assured and be assured that every federal agency that h...
HUGH SHELTON For any new technology there is always controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I ...
HUGH GRANT A strangely reflective, even melancholy day. Is that because, unlike our cousins in the northern hem...
HUGH MACKAY The notion of the single man began in the 1950's. The idea of the bachelor as a separate life wa...
HUGH HEFNER Australians are coffee snobs. An influx of Italian immigrants after World War II ensured that - we p...
HUGH JACKMAN Both my parents are English and came out to Australia in 1967. I was born the following year. My par...
HUGH JACKMAN I love food, all types of food. I love Korean food, Japanese, Italian, French. In Australia, we don&...
HUGH JACKMAN The most scared I'd ever been was the first time I sang at a rugby match, Australia versus New Z...
HUGH JACKMAN I'm quite jealous of my Scottish relations, in whose culture everyone, in a Jane Austen kind of ...
HUGH GRANT I suspect the secret of personal attraction is locked up in our unique imperfections, flaws and frai...
HUGH MACKAY My laziness is really profound. I'm really interested in where it comes from - it almost feels c...
HUGH GRANT Almost any difficulty will move in the face of honesty. When I am honest I never feel stupid. And wh...
HUGH PRATHER A mentor long departed told me that the greatest gift in political life, in any life, is to view you...
HUGH CAREY A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a...
HUGH SIDEY I once sang 'Summer Nights,' from 'Grease,' at a bar in Melbourne with John Travolta...
HUGH JACKMAN I never went to drama school, I don't have any certificates saying: 'He's a qualified ac...
HUGH LAURIE The word philosophy sounds high-minded, but it simply means the love of wisdom. If you love somethin...
HUGH JACKMAN Riding my motorcycle around L.A. is like my own video game. But unlike many folks at the wheel, I am...
HUGH LAURIE Comic book fans have loved Wolverine, and all the 'X-Men' characters, for more than the acti...
HUGH JACKMAN What's true will never contradict what's true. Article 2 of the Belgic Confession, based on ...
HUGH ROSS Music is one of the noblest callings I can think of. It's the highest of all the art forms to me...
HUGH LAURIE I've driven people mad on films that I've made - I want more takes; I want to try new lines....
HUGH GRANT Breakfast is my specialty. I admit it's the easiest meal to cook, but I make everything with a t...
HUGH JACKMAN It's very true that you can be both selfless and selfish at the same time. What we tend towards,...
HUGH GRANT I had a bad back for a couple of years. I had to do a lot of physiotherapy for it. What I couldn'...
HUGH JACKMAN I've certainly had a bad attitude to my job on many occasions. Not since 'Four Weddings and ...
HUGH GRANT Now I meet people with full-color Wolverine tattoos on their backs. Thank God I did okay, because I ...
HUGH JACKMAN I have my meals delivered... you know what I like? Chicken and rice... But the problem with being a ...
HUGH DOUGLAS Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed.
HUGH LEONARD Driving a motorcycle is like flying. All your senses are alive. When I ride through Beverly Hills in...
HUGH LAURIE I've always enjoyed a woman's company more than men's. They're usually better lookin...
HUGH LEONARD I was fat-shamed the other day on a British newspaper. The headline was 'Four Bellies and a Turk...
HUGH GRANT One thing I do personally started 20 years ago. I started meditating, and I know twice a day I can k...
HUGH JACKMAN Surrounding myself with beautiful women keeps me young.
HUGH HEFNER It frequently happens that where the second line is sublime, the third, in which he meant to rise s...
HUGH BLAIR A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign th...
HUGH SIDEY We want different things. Men want to have sex with a woman. Then they want to have sex with another...
HUGH LAURIE The sexual mechanisms of the two genders are just not compatible, that’s the horrible truth of it....
HUGH LAURIE Playboy isn't like the downscale, male bonding, beer-swilling phenomena that is being promoted now b...
HUGH HEFNER I have always stuck up for Western medicine. You can chew all the celery you want, but without antib...
HUGH LAURIE When you're playing an icon like Wolverine, it's sometimes better to be someone that nobody ...
HUGH JACKMAN I'm not a kid. You don't get in this business for anonymity. It's not like I have poster...
HUGH JACKMAN The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great.
HUGH HEFNER The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great. What's am...
HUGH HEFNER The glory of American television is Dennis Franz.
HUGH LAURIE