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We couldn't get over the top. We got within one for about 10 minutes it seemed like. We could not get over the hump. We couldn't hit a shot, we turned the ball over and as soon as that happened we had a little bit of a bubble burst. But the guys never quit like all year, we never quit. Even when things went bad we hung in there and we had a chance.

We can say we've put the worst of the asset bubble burst behind us. This is a big step.

We do have some trees on the bubble that will go over, but I see more good coming out of this than bad.

Yesterday was very frightening. It felt like maybe the bubble was bursting on the Internet stocks. I'm not sure that that's truly the case, but clearly investors are scared right now and they're panicking a little bit.

We really like the steady pace versus the bubble (mentality) we have seen in the past. Instead of irrational exuberance, we are seeing healthy, rational optimism.

When you're doing voice work, you're in a bubble where you just think about the story and the words. They record you on video while you're doing the voice work, so they capture how your face is moving and the gestures you make.

You are experiencing amazing growth here. The question is whether or not that will be sustained for the next 20 years. We think it will, but if the bubble bursts, we will have to hold the bag.

Virtually every real breakthrough in technology had a bubble which burst, left a lot of people broke who'd invested in it, but also left the infrastructure for this next golden age, effectively.

Usually, when you have a stock market mania, it's driven largely by individual investors borrowing money to buy stocks at prices that are too high. And usually, when a bubble becomes unwound, it's because of margin calls.

Usually when the public gets admitted to something, it's the end of the bubble. The exponential growth in private equity and hedge funds in the last decade is mind-boggling. There's a bubble here that's going to bust. There's too much money. That's true in venture capital and it's true of hedge funds as well.

We need to hire a bubble of controllers that will move our National Airspace System smoothly through the next decade without the turbulence of short staffing and its numerous associated problems.

Yeah, we're cheaper than we were at the peak of the bubble and running up to the bubble. But compared to any other point the market is overvalued.

Those guys (the middle relief) have some good numbers on the back of their bubble gum cards.

Unlike President Obama, Mitt Romney has been inside the bubble all his life. He has no idea what's going on here. He has no idea how destructive Bush's eight years were to this country.

We haven't had a burst. We have barely had a leak in the bubble. And I think that you'll see come spring, next quarter, that the hole in the bubble is going to be sealed up.

We know she's not coming in with a high score. She's right on the bubble (to break 100). One of these days it's going to click, and she'll be in the 90s.

You have the Baby Boomers having the resources to buy condominiums, betting on the increase in value in the next six months, ... That activity may be the first to feel the crunch if the housing bubble bursts.

We are right on the bubble as far as postseason play is concerned.

We're entering bubble territory. Prices have moved away from reality, and are no longer linked to fundamentals.

This would have been a very anticipated deal, but now the bubble has burst,

The property bubble is nearing its end. This is the end of the great American spending binge.

We do believe that the U.S. housing market is a bubble in the sense that its contribution to consumer spending is unsustainable. Households have used a large share of the recent home equity gains to supplement their spending. When these gains dry up, as they ultimately must, spending is likely to weaken substantially.

We were a bubble team; this was a signature win. Hopefully, we'll be able to get in.

We started up the company with a goal of building a real company, unlike so many Internet Bubble startups that seemed to take the attitude of "let's get mind share, and we'll figure out a way to make money later.

What we're supposed to do as actors is be able to portray real human beings and emotions. And if you grow up in this bubble of showbiz and you only know people who make movies, you don't really have an understanding of the world outside.

We knew Villa would come out and try to prove a point. After the result against Chelsea, if we'd have come up here and fallen down flat, the bubble was going to burst. But we have two more away games to break the duck.

With all due respect to the president, things are not going to bubble up from the bottom. There has to be some federal leadership here.

We were very nervous. Everyone at the table was anxious to see what the results were. It just depends on what poll you're looking at at the time ? some say you're in, some say you're not and some say that you're a bubble team.

We can't squander any more opportunities. When teams get down to the end (of the season), and you are a bubble team, they gear it up a notch.

When Chuck would get some bubble gum in he would save it until Halloween to give out to the kids, ... In those days, we never had many trick-or-treaters, but when word spread that Chuck had bubble gum, we were swarmed with kids and ran out of candy.

We thought it would cause a bubble. The bubble is just bigger than we thought.

We are starting to see a change in consumer behavior. Consumers are cutting back because of high prices, rising interest rates and signs that the housing bubble is ending. Prices have probably begun the long steady process of grinding lower.

When you look at how homebuilders operate now, it's not like they build homes and wait for them to be sold, ... They're taking orders and then building. When things slow down, there's not going to be a bubble collapse or anything like that.

While it is not so large as to exert undue pressure on the real side of the U.S. economy, this emerging bubble is nonetheless real.

When the dot-com bubble burst, we wanted to develop something we were passionate about. We saw success in the fast-casual industry and saw an opportunity in focusing on one item.

We see the end of the dotcom bubble in Asia, cyclical things and structural changes in some sectors that will lead to a changing in the way some workforces are deployed.

We'll have to see how it plays out and how he's coming along, but certainly he's on the bubble of playing for the Hurricanes. He's a very good player, the type of player that's hard to find in that he's big and strong, and plays the game really hard on every shift.

There appears to be enough evidence, at least tentatively, to conclude that our strategy of addressing the bubble's consequences rather than the bubble itself has been successful,

We've never seen this size of a housing bubble before, so in a sense we're in kind of a strange place right now.

We got a green light last month when the Fed decided not to raise rates, then we got another green light when the bond market rallied last Friday, ... The balloon is still blowing up. I'm staying defensive. I still say the bubble is going to break. I just don't know when.

We don't see a bubble because the strength didn't come from speculative demand. It came from low 30-year mortgage rates, good demographics and other good fundamental factors that boosted demand. Even if demand declines, we won't see home sales falling off a cliff.

Too-easy credit and millions of bad loans made during the U.S. housing bubble paved the way for the financial calamity and Great Recession that followed. Today, by contrast, credit is too tight. Mortgage loans are particularly hard to get, creating a problem for the housing market and the broader economy.

We had the scare of our life a year ago, being on the bubble in February. We don't want to relive that experience.

The problem existed long before (the Internet bubble burst in March 2000).

We say it's a bubble, but a housing bubble does not pop like a stock market bubble, ... A stock market bubble, when it pops, lots of market activity, prices dropping rapidly. Housing prices don't drop that way because there's a huge fixed cost. You don't day-trade your home.

We should have economic growth of more than 3 percent this quarter. I think the Fed is concerned about a possible housing bubble and about us getting close to full employment. I think this is one of the rare occasions were the market has it wrong.

Even though I have spent literally years of my life trying to learn another language, any other language - and even though I have in the past claimed in several key professional contexts that I speak other languages - I am in fact still trapped inside the bubble of English.

At some point the army is going to react and then the LTTE will retaliate. They have set in motion a process. At some point the bubble is bound to burst and then we do not know what will happen.

At the height of the bubble people used to go to expensive and luxurious restaurants, to drink a lot of tremendously expensive champagne.

Don't talk to me unless you speak American. It's all the things you don't say that's below the surface and how it can bubble up.

And this doesn't look like it will be a bubble -- Asians are buying not just as financial investments, they are buying because they appreciate the art. That's the best sort of buyer.

Ever since the Second World War, television signals (as well as FM radio and radar) have served as Homo sapiens' emissaries into deep space. High-frequency, high-power broadcasts have filled an Earth-centered bubble more than 60 light-years in radius with signals.

Everything is in a bubble. Everybody that missed the stock market bubble is intent on identifying, or even labeling, the next one.

There's not a bubble in this market today.

There's no bubble for Stevie Y. If he's not playing great, and his knee is bothering him, he'd be the first guy to tell me.

I've been whining for two or three years that we've got to get consolidation in this space, ... In the bubble you had way too many companies go public. All these companies turned out to be features and not companies. Now part of the driver is a realization by the big companies that this is a way to capture growth.

the worldwide real estate bubble and its aftermath.

These monthly numbers are very erratic. It can be that this is a sign (of the bubble bursting), but I would never make too much of one month's number. Especially since the other timely data we get, the mortgage applications for home purchases, have still been pretty high.

The speculative bubble has been taken out of the stock.

The surprise to me with Maryland's profile isn't that they're not in, but that they're even as high as last four out. The bubble is really bad and most years I think they'd be eight or 10 spots lower than they are. Most years we're not talking about five or six from the Missouri Valley or two or three from the Colonial or eight or nine Big East teams. There's not a team on the bubble that doesn't have serious flaws.

Sometimes that's even more difficult because these are the guys on the bubble as far as making the World Cup squad for Korea. They're going to be fighting the hardest to win a spot; sometimes they're the most dangerous teams to play against.

Scary is a good word for it. There are a lot of chip companies trying to find their identity and hoping to bubble to the surface and be the leader in something.

Profits are on the rebound but is it sustainable? Given the extent of the previous bubble in tech, the recovery should be slower. There's a whiff of a pickup in business spending but not enough to hang your hat on just yet.

Product quality was the first priority on the first day of Vista (development) and we won't compromise on that. We needed just a few more weeks and that put us in what we would call a bubble where some partners would be impacted more than others and we decided to optimize it for the entire industry.

Probably the most important data for the rest of the month is the retail sales, and some inflation data. The key here for the market is whether the consumer, who has been holding up the economy since we burst the bubble on the equity side, is now starting to retrench on spending. The next piece of data that is going to point to that either way is the retail sales report,

Normally when you talk about housing bubbles bursting, you're talking about a specific local market. But we've never had a nationwide run-up in home prices like this. I don't think it's realistic to think the decline won't also be national. I think a 15 percent nationwide decline is very plausible. In many bubble areas, could be looking at 20-25, maybe 30 percent declines.

After the bubble in the tech sector this spring, I expect the shares to get positively cheap before people start buying again, and we aren't there yet. My view is that we have more downside to come.

After the bubble burst, LSI was hurt as much as anyone else. But there were a handful of companies that were just as broadly positioned, and with great technology and execution, they were able to become stronger.

After you open a toy, you want to discard that packaging. There are some hidden hazards there for kids. Plastic wrap and bubble wrap can actually be a suffocating hazard. Kids can choke on the little foam peanuts that often come in packaging.

The motto of the bubble was get big fast. The rule today is get big cheap. What tickles my checkbook is the success of capital-efficient startups where the users themselves often contribute the feature road map, software and marketing.

Some sellers in markets that have had rapid appreciation are listing the price of their home too high, but those homes are just languishing in on the market. At the same time, some buyers who have believed hype about a housing bubble are hoping housing prices drop, but that's not happening either.

During the Internet bubble people focused on the fast companies,

The bubble winked at me and said,'You'll miss me brother, when you're dead'.

As long as housing prices don't go down, consumers have more equity they can borrow against. If mortgage rates go up another 1.25 or 1.5 percent and pierce 7 percent -- watch out. That's when the housing bubble bursts and consumers would cut back on spending a lot.

As in the United States in the late 1920s and Japan in the late 1980s, the case for a central bank ultimately to burst that bubble becomes overwhelming,

This giant gas bubble contains about a million times more mass than the Sun and the energy powering its outflow is equal to about 100 supernova explosions.

This giant gas bubble contains about a million times more mass than the Sun, and the energy powering its outflow is equal to about 100 supernova explosions.

This is a bubble, plain and simple. Every bubble has a theory about itself and every bubble bursts. There's never been an exception.

This is actually a fairly attractive multiple, ... Many seem to be trapped in a time machine, namely that we're dealing with a bubble here. But I don't think that's the case.

They're worried that their population bubble is going to pass pretty soon and they're going to start on a downhill slide. In some of the rural areas, they're already seeing young people leaving for the cities.

Almost everywhere I go, people ask me if we're in a housing bubble here in San Diego. My answer is yes, but the bubble isn't going to burst.

Almost every economist agrees that the American health care system is unsustainable. Medical care is so expensive that it is busting all of our budgets - government, business, and personal. Eventually, the medical price bubble will pop. What, then, are the alternatives?

Although the concept of a real estate bubble has attracted much attention, home prices in the U.S. at the national level have not declined since the days of the Great Depression.

A lot of the slowing has to do with all the talk about a housing bubble and with affordability, which is being driven partly by price and partly by mortgage rates. The overall mood has changed.

They had a lot to play for - if they were on the bubble - I thought they were in anyway. They just played really well. For us, the conference championship trophy would've been nice, or at least the chance to play for it.

They're going along very nicely indeed and while we're only a fortnight into it there is a real bubble around the place.

There's a thought that says Japan had a capacity bubble in the 1980s, we had one in the 1990s and now it's China's turn.

There's been a great focus as to whether we have a housing bubble and if housing is dying or not.

There's an idealism starting to bubble up again. Today's kids aren't the materialist, MBA, Bonfire-of-the-Vanities types that you saw in the late 1980s and early 1990s. They're also not the weary, cynical types who think they can't do anything.

A bubble is on water and merges in water. Man is born in God and merges in God.

A bursting of the housing bubble could result in a severe recession.

It was a roster-maintenance move. Kris was on the bubble for us. They had inquired about him several times. We're always looking for defensive linemen. ... Obviously, it's not a world-beater trade.

It was in that bubble after Vatican II when it seemed like the best time ever to grow up Catholic. It was a time when the church was so connected to the world.

I told those guys that you really don't see those yet on bubble gum cards on the backs. They count during the season. They can hit 20 or 30 during Spring Training and none of them count.

It's not just about the promotional offers. People have so much information thrown at them, especially in books, where there are hundreds of thousands of new books published each year. The challenge is in how you bubble up the best choices for them.

For a bubble this size, this is very close.

It's not without its hiccups. You don't go in expecting things to always work smoothly, but Romanians are geniuses at what we might consider to be jury-rigged solutions. The power plant might be held together by paper clips and bubble gum, but it works.

It's not without its hiccups, ... You don't go in expecting things to always work smoothly, but Romanians are geniuses at what we might consider to be jury-rigged solutions. The power plant might be held together by paper clips and bubble gum, but it works.

It's like a bubble in your tire, or like squeezing a balloon. Straight ahead is no problem. But start using footwork and making cuts and shifts in movement and the pressure creates the protrusion, causing serious pain.

It's easy to know the guys who are on the team, but we have that bubble of eight to 10 spots that we need to make decisions on. All the guys that are competing for those spots did a good job. We'd rather have that. It's going to make for difficult decisions eventually, but it's good to see that the guys competing for those spots can play.