Hard electronic retailers, like Best Buy, are seeing more of the tax refund dollars than specialty r...
DANA TELSEY Apparel overall is showing a mixed picture. There's been a lot of pressure on the apparel side, part...
DANA TELSEY With Christmas coming on a Sunday, most people feel they can procrastinate a little bit longer becau...
DANA TELSEY It's certainly a boon to the luxury business.
DANA TELSEY As you can see, Christmas is spread out -- not just among December but among January as well. Promot...
DANA TELSEY That's disappointing. I think they [Penney] are having some category shifts going on with some of th...
DANA TELSEY Basically the economy is sluggish. We are seeing consumers resisting spending and the outlook for th...
DANA TELSEY Gap's basic and fashion merchandise is certainly not getting the right mix in order to sell more goo...
DANA TELSEY We've had a wide variety of excuses, whether it be Princess Diana's funeral, the weather, El Nino......
DANA TELSEY They don't have enough promotional inventories in the stores. They'll only be selling full-price and...
DANA TELSEY Sometimes when retailers get big same-store sales increases, you have to look behind the numbers.
DANA TELSEY There's concern that earnings estimates will have to be reduced.
DANA TELSEY It's certainly a boon to the luxury business. That exclusivity has made more people willing to pay f...
DANA TELSEY The weakness in the stock price, despite the better-than-expected earnings, is due to the company sa...
DANA L. TELSEY You're getting quarterly reports and news about August sales this week, and retail stocks have also ...
DANA L. TELSEY We're on fire right now. First the EPA said we're bad and our hair was on fire. Then the people said...
AL TELSEY There's really two parts to this. We're asking for a quick judgment to cover the legal fees and then...
AL TELSEY The [borough] lawyers back then were very smart.
AL TELSEY I know it's a cliche, but the whole family is just whacked. I mean, we're all out of our min...
DANA CARVEY We are all one.
DANA PETROVIC There's always been a confusion about my sensibility. 'Is he kind of edgy, or is he Carol Bu...
DANA CARVEY When I feel like my body is exhausted, I focus on making my fifth Olympic team so I can push through...
DANA TORRES It's very difficult for my body to recover after workouts now that I'm older, so we have to ...
DANA TORRES I can't dance.
DANA TORRES I'm so freaking competitive it's unbelievable.
DANA TORRES As for swimming, I'm now in the pool 5 days a week from 8 to 10 a.m. And I'm in the gym for ...
DANA TORRES I get out of the pool after a workout and look on my BlackBerry to see if the nanny called and to ma...
DANA TORRES I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.
DANA TORRES Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.
DANA STABENOW I would be ecstatic if the very first writer to step foot in a Storyknife cabin was an Alaska Native...
DANA STABENOW I don't know how many people there are with a million dollars who are inclined to give it to a w...
DANA STABENOW The first thing my writing ever earned me wasn't an advance on a book; it wasn't a fee for a...
DANA STABENOW My stories are Alaska stories, and they need to be told in Alaska. Evergreen Films is located in Ala...
DANA STABENOW I've been approached in the past to option my stories for television, but prior to Evergreen, th...
DANA STABENOW All roads lead to Wall Street, but we feel the effects of Wall Street on every street corner. Certai...
DANA SPIOTTA I like the challenge of creating a world with only sentences.
DANA SPIOTTA Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them...
DANA SPIOTTA I try to write about how we live today, how we use language, technology, our bodies.
DANA SPIOTTA It takes a long time to write a novel when you have to keep interrupting your work to earn money.
DANA SPIOTTA I like to buy books for the kids in my family. I guess that's why they call me the 'mean'...
DANA SPIOTTA Yes, I did try acting when I was in high school and I was terrible at it. So I definitely have had t...
DANA SPIOTTA The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger fo...
DANA SPIOTTA That was one of the reasons I became a writer - I never really had that many friends. I would read a...
DANA SPIOTTA There's lots of things that can't make it in the world that are worth making. There are lots...
DANA SPIOTTA I have to say that movies have as much impact on me as music. And that I learned as much about narra...
DANA SPIOTTA People think it's suspect and self-indulgent to make art, and I don't think that's true....
DANA SPIOTTA I think it's harder than ever to be an artist. I think that you end up, especially as a middle-a...
DANA SPIOTTA I locate a great deal of the power of Occupy Wall Street in the name itself, 'Occupy Wall Street...
DANA SPIOTTA A good novel should be deeply unsettling - its satisfactions should come from its authenticity and i...
DANA SPIOTTA My husband is a musician. He cooks and he's a chef but he also, he makes basement recordings. So...
DANA SPIOTTA I don't have a lot of skills, but one thing I can do is, I can compartmentalize. I can make that...
DANA SPIOTTA The idea that you can live off the grid and just do your own thing is a very American idea - that yo...
DANA SPIOTTA Although a great restaurant experience must include great food, a bad restaurant experience can be a...
DANA SPIOTTA I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up.
DANA SPIOTTA Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the wr...
DANA SPIOTTA Your memories from your early childhood seem to have such purchase on your emotions. They are so con...
DANA SPIOTTA I just find 'Scooby-Doo' unwatchable. I can't stand it. I like all those other Hanna-Bar...
DANA SNYDER I know, logically, about the fact that there are fans of my work in America, but it's hard for t...
DANA SNYDER I know a lot about Jewish comedians.
DANA SNYDER My primary interest has always been about exploring the human psyche and humanity.
DANA SNYDER I love being a part of Aqua Teen.
DANA SNYDER The Highlander was a documentary, and events happened in real time.
DANA SNYDER I was not put on this earth to listen to meat!
DANA SNYDER I graduated from the University of Whatever.
DANA SNYDER I'm greedy, and I have a house to pay for and a wife. She has a job of her own, but I bleed her ...
DANA SNYDER The only rule is there's only one rule: no rules.
DANA SNYDER That's when I feel really excited about a painting. When it starts to feel real, when it feels l...
DANA SCHUTZ I just saw a clip of Maria Bamford. She has a comedy show that was filmed and performed from her bed...
DANA SCHUTZ I think that's just part of how it is with making art. Sometimes you're just flooded with id...
DANA SCHUTZ There are a lot of artists in Gowanus, and certain things come into your visual vocabulary from livi...
DANA SCHUTZ I like the feeling of not knowing where to look when you are only performing for one person or watch...
DANA SCHUTZ I often use hypothetical situations to generate information and imagery for paintings and to create ...
DANA SCHUTZ The distinction between reality and fiction in America seems like it is becoming really blurry. With...
DANA SCHUTZ I'm mostly drawn to narratives that are difficult for me to visualize.
DANA SCHUTZ Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get an...
DANA ROHRABACHER Our State Department is often wrong and timid.
DANA ROHRABACHER Our marine terminals are invaluable commerce infrastructure, not only to our country but also for th...
DANA ROHRABACHER January 30th will be a historic day for the Middle East and the world. The Iraqi people will take th...
DANA ROHRABACHER In the meantime, we see there are charities that spend much of their scarce resources that should be...
DANA ROHRABACHER If al Qaeda or any other enemy of our country manages to create a situation or explode a bomb or mur...
DANA ROHRABACHER I agree with my colleagues, even the one who just preceded me, that marijuana is probably a dangerou...
DANA ROHRABACHER During my 8 years as chairman, I had the privilege to peer into the future to see dynamic citizen as...
DANA ROHRABACHER Clearly, children's charities struggle to find private sources of money to sustain their benevol...
DANA ROHRABACHER But also, the guest workers program, it's quite often misused, meaning people could come in as p...
DANA ROHRABACHER And let us be frank, the security threats that emanate from our ports come from foreign cargo.
DANA ROHRABACHER If we want more trade in the world, we should establish bilateral trade agreements with other democr...
DANA ROHRABACHER I support this war on terror and the war on radical Islam.
DANA ROHRABACHER Businesses should no longer be allowed to depress wages by hiring illegal labor and then falsely cla...
DANA ROHRABACHER Well, my constituents are happy that the Republican Party has finally gotten off its duff, seeing th...
DANA ROHRABACHER Too often in our communities many families have not even been aware that certain charities exist; an...
DANA ROHRABACHER Next door to Ethiopia spreading out along the strategic Red Sea coastline is Eritrea, a relatively n...
DANA ROHRABACHER In my district, the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles handle approximately 44 percent of all of th...
DANA ROHRABACHER American POWs from the last Iraq war, who were held prisoner and tortured by Iraq, are now being pre...
DANA ROHRABACHER And, of course, in the Philippines there were so many thousands of Americans that were captured by t...
DANA ROHRABACHER Transferring our sovereignty and decisionmaking power to the WTO, to the United Nations, or any othe...
DANA ROHRABACHER I rise in support of the separation of powers as established by our Founding Fathers in the Constitu...
DANA ROHRABACHER There are many drugs that have many serious side effects and that are harmful to people. Marijuana i...
DANA ROHRABACHER As a beat reporter covering the CIA and intelligence world after the terrorist attacks of 2001, I co...
DANA PRIEST The Army confronted racial integration when it was still unpopular in society. It has been strugglin...
DANA PRIEST My goal, as always, is simply to inform the public about an issue that is nearly impossible for them...
DANA PRIEST When the Transportation Security Administration adopted body scanners at airports, activists wrote t...
DANA PRIEST I have been sober for the longest time. Oh, it's over a decade now. No joke.
DANA PLATO Nobody knows what a woman feels or experiences but another woman. We are the nurturers and there are...
DANA PLATO I'm learning to play by the rules. I sort of hate to think of it that way, but that's how it...
DANA PLATO People have an awful lot of problems that society has put on them and a lot to work through because ...
DANA PLATO I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working.
DANA PLATO I'm open-minded. I don't consider myself gay or hetero, I just am. I've had experiences ...
DANA PLATO I'm okay in my skin, you know... I'm okay with who I am.
DANA PLATO I'd hopefully work through all my issues with men first so then I'd be okay being with a wom...
DANA PLATO If it feels right and I'm not going against any energy in myself or the situation, there would b...
DANA PLATO I wanted this to have as wide an audience as possible. I didn't want to get an X rating, because...
DANA PLATO All that money stuff was so strange; all it ever meant to me was freedom from worry. I'm happier...
DANA PLATO I like to go with the energy because when you ignore it that's when you start doing things wrong...
DANA PLATO I think the whole nerves thing comes into play when we worry about what other people and society wil...
DANA PLATO In my opinion it's not about gay or straight or bi, we're attracted to spirits, whatever bod...
DANA PLATO Growing up, all I did was work and vacation, but I loved it, no one pushed me into anything. The thi...
DANA PLATO I've learned through experience that life is never that bad. The secret is just paying attention...
DANA PLATO I'm tired of defending my character. I am what I am.
DANA PLATO I have been a Republican, and I've worked in Republican circles for so long, and I know that the...
DANA PERINO Being a conservative has given me clarity; it's given me freedom - my mind is free; therefore, m...
DANA PERINO Commanders-in-chief make really tough decisions.
DANA PERINO At some point, you're going to have to be willing to take a punch for your team. If your employe...
DANA PERINO I love road trips. If you haven't been on one in a while, it's time to put a trip on your ca...
DANA PERINO I feel like there should be a statute of limitations on scoring political points on the tragedy that...
DANA PERINO Never refuse a breath mint - you don't know why it's being offered.
DANA PERINO My great-grandmother lived to be 100 years old, so I got to know her. She always sent us birthday ca...
DANA PERINO I understood early on that the freedom of America is what made our way of life possible and that we ...
DANA PERINO Young people really want you to give them a road map, and they will follow it to a tee. If you tell ...
DANA PERINO One of the best ways to deal with the peer pressure of the 'Fear of Missing Out' is to opt-o...
DANA PERINO The life my grandparents had was thoroughly American. They built a small ranch into a huge operation...
DANA PERINO We are so blessed to be here in America. We have freedom and opportunity unlike anywhere else in the...
DANA PERINO Conservatism by its very nature is compassionate.
DANA PERINO Once you break someone of the habit of up-talking, they can start to see immediate improvement in th...
DANA PERINO I don't know if people are born with a worldview or if their thinking is a product of their envi...
DANA PERINO Inauguration Day is like two ships passing in the night: the new staff moving in while the other wal...
DANA PERINO Civility is a choice.
DANA PERINO I think a lot of women, especially ones that want to achieve career goals, tend to worry. I don'...
DANA PERINO A lot of people think that public speaking means that you are standing at a podium giving a speech, ...
DANA PERINO One time, on Marine One, the president asked me my opinion. I had a flashback to being at the kitche...
DANA PERINO Good governance, safety, a chance to grow economically and professionally - those are important thin...
DANA PERINO I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grac...
DANA PERINO Sarcasm is like cheap wine - it leaves a terrible aftertaste.
DANA PERINO It's my dream, my goal to be good at Olympics, anywhere they are in the world.
DANA HUSSEIN Despite all these obstacles and bad security situation, I have the energy and the resolve to train, ...
DANA HUSSEIN I need one psychological expert to help me concentrate.
DANA HUSSEIN If I leave this sport, I think life will stop.
DANA HUSSEIN Life must continue, even with the security situation so bad, because I have ambitions. I love this s...
DANA HUSSEIN As long as I have ambition, maybe I can achieve something for my country.
DANA HUSSEIN I'm very ambitious, despite all the challenges I face in the streets.
DANA HUSSEIN Sports can unify the Iraqi people - no Sunnis, no Shiites, just sport for the country.
DANA HUSSEIN To be able to live and train in Iraq under these circumstances you need to be brave.
DANA HUSSEIN I'd be nervous about skiing, wondering what I'd do if I felt shaky on top of a mountain; but...
DANA HILL Now that I'm more mature, in a funny way, I can even appreciate that I've bad to become more...
DANA HILL I had to start being aware of what I ate, what I'm planning to eat and take my twice-daily medic...
DANA HILL My mother keeps things in perspective for me. She makes me realize that the acting I do and love is ...
DANA HILL I'm a lot luckier than most people, although I used to look at it the other way around-that so m...
DANA HILL I'm a normal teen-ager except for my size.
DANA HILL I know all the critics.
DANA HILL I used the diabetes as my weapon. Of course, I was only hurting myself and making myself sicker, but...
DANA HILL I love TV. I know all the theme songs from the shows I watch. I'm not one of those who'd rat...
DANA HILL People are never quiet. It's go, go, go. I'm a go-getter, but you need rest and silence, jus...
DANA HILL I like school very much, and I'll go to college if my career slows down. But kids go to college ...
DANA HILL Food as a hobby used to be an elite pastime, and it has become something that is totally ordinary fo...
DANA GOODYEAR I love trying new restaurants.
DANA GOODYEAR I'm a total foodie.
DANA GOODYEAR Ultimately, taste is so niche and so personal.
DANA GOODYEAR I think for diners, it is about crafting an identity around food which we have not really had in a m...
DANA GOODYEAR I find that people in the food world are amazingly willing to talk about what they are doing, even w...
DANA GOODYEAR I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems...
DANA GOODYEAR I was terrified of taking the G.R.E.
DANA GOODYEAR For me, it makes sense to address shocking experiences through poems because of the way poems also h...
DANA GOODYEAR There's something about the shape that a poem takes in my mind before I write it that has to do ...
DANA GOODYEAR I will eat disgusting things, but only those with long established culinary traditions.
DANA GOODYEAR Los Angeles is a good city in which to be a reporter. Always entertaining, always an incubator.
DANA GOODYEAR Like funny men, skilled diners are apparently perceived to have an evolutionary advantage.
DANA GOODYEAR Los Angeles is a city of few hard targets. Its iconic buildings are private spaces, mostly residenti...
DANA GOODYEAR My relationship to food is that of an acrophobe to a bridge. Unease masks a desire to jump.
DANA GOODYEAR The food being presented at the most expensive restaurants, by the most sophisticated chefs, was not...
DANA GOODYEAR I developed my taste for coffee at five, staying with my grandmother in Connecticut.
DANA GOODYEAR Like the rest of the city, LAX is coming of age.
DANA GOODYEAR Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city&...
DANA GOODYEAR Food is a lens for culture.
DANA GOODYEAR Christmas cookies can't help but be retro - they are memory first, sugar-flour-egg-redhot-gumdro...
DANA GOODYEAR If this is the end of the world, give me a fork and a knife.
DANA GOODYEAR It's rare to find women who have that balance between work and life, who are really psyched for ...
DANA FOX Audiences know exactly what's coming and they know from the beginning of the movie that everythi...
DANA FOX I won't say, 'I have two degrees; I shouldn't be getting your latte.' Because I paid...
DANA FOX My big philosophy is: Try and work with good people, because the process is your life. That's go...
DANA FOX I'm a believer in paying your dues.
DANA FOX I had amazing stuff happen right off the top. I thought this was how it worked. Hollywood is awesome...
DANA FOX It's harder and harder to make a well-done romantic comedy these days because the conventions ha...
DANA FOX I am really looking for a chance to direct. I feel like that's kind of the next frontier for me....
DANA FOX I love being on stage or in front of the camera. My work brings me a lot of joy. It helps me figure ...
DANA DELANY I've reached a place with my work where I'm ready to concentrate more on life.
DANA DELANY I like people who are still actively creating in their life, who aren't set, I don't feel li...
DANA DELANY We all know that television is better for women as they get into their 40s. You could be more three-...
DANA DELANY If you put Willem Dafoe, Liam Neeson and James Woods in a room together, there wouldn't be room ...
DANA DELANY I'm the worst rider. I'm a terrible rider. Me and horses are not a good mix. For some reason...
DANA DELANY Television is more of a business. You can't take as many risks, because there's so many chan...
DANA DELANY I have faith in my imperfections!
DANA DELANY