Our high expectations were not met.

Expectations for the brokers have turned somewhat more negative. We're not terribly excited about the near-term prospects for a lot of these stocks.

The quarterly results beat the expectations of most market watchers.

If ever you are to be visited by the Holy Ghost, you should make certain you're sitting beside a fireman.

For some reason, I wrote about the bed we slept in when I was a kid. It was a half-acre of misery, that bed, sagging in the middle, red hair sticking out of the mattress, the spring gone and the fleas leaping all over the place.

The part of Limerick we lived in is Georgian, you know, those Georgian houses. You see them in pictures of Dublin.