Boom Quotations

I was fascinated by the culture clash between England and America in the 1950s. My first memories are of being a girl in those post-war years when things were really pretty grim. It wasn't like that in America, which was real boom time.

I was completely with the reality TV boom for a while. I really liked a lot of the reality TV, and the one that lost me was the ballroom dancing one they do, 'Dancing with the Stars.' That was the one where I watched it and I was perplexed. I thought it was really boring.

At the same time the folk boom was happening, the civil rights movement was happening, the anti-war movement was happening, the ban the bomb movement was happening, the environmental movement was happening. There was suddenly a generation ready to change the course of history.

People were more interested in the phenomena than the art itself. This, combined with the growing interest in collecting art as an investment and the resultant boom in the art market, made it a difficult time for a young artist to remain sincere without becoming cynical.

I was in the Air Force and was a boom operator (in-flight refueling). I got my comedy start in the Air Force.

Google started out when the dot-com boom was happening. It grew under the radar of big companies that were competing in but basically ignoring search. Then they were able to really invest during the bust for a long time.

Sound public finances are the essential foundation on which to construct a better-balanced economy from the wreckage of Labour's boom and bust. But it is economic growth that will create the jobs and the prosperity for the future and enable us to pay down Labour's debt.

During the boom years of the 1990s, globalization emerged as the most significant development in our national life. With NAFTA and the Internet and big-box stores selling cheap goods from China, the line between national and international began to blur.

'Boom' is my heart. The 'kack' is my soul. Apparently when I choreographed I didn't realize that I said 'boom-kack' 'boom-kack.' I had no idea I was doing it and then I realized that it's every time I felt like the fight in my soul - the boom and the kack - was like my heart. It was like the love of it - my heart and soul.

To the small group of editors and designers who would launch Wired in January 1993, technology represented the future's best hope; but to the media, the tech boom was yesterday's story.

Society can take two roads - the road to genuine prosperity, or the road to artificial stimulus. The first results in a permanent higher standard of living for all; the latter creates an inflationary boom that cannot last.

After the comedy boom of the '80s, there was a certain formula that comedians had to do and could do in order to be successful touring comedians, and those were mainly observational comedians who had a very strict structure of what made an act, and I think it was very performance oriented.

I used to link up boom boxes, record one take, play it into another boom box then play all that back into the other one until I had six tracks. It was unlistenable!

In the mid-1970s, there was this huge boom of stand-up comedy throughout North America. I went to see a show at a club called Yuk-Yuks, in Toronto, and I was just fascinated. I ended up coming back for amateur hour on a Monday at midnight and got up there without any thought as to what might come of it.

I think the Baby Boom does have a tendency to get its nose in everything. The Greatest Generation had a better tendency to leave people alone. Of course, they also had a better tendency to hate everybody's guts.

My grandfather was hit over the head by a crane boom in Seattle. Some of the family claimed he was never a violent, crazy person before that. Some say he was. It depends who you believe.

We've always been a mining town. Now we're going to boom again.

We stopped the source of the spill and have deployed approximately 8,000 feet of boom to contain it. Our main goals are to protect people and the environment, so we're focusing our efforts on safely recovering the oil and minimizing impact to the environment and other businesses in the area. We're responding as aggressively as the weather conditions safely permit. No one has been injured, and we certainly want to keep it that way.

We'd like to combine our overall upbeat analysis of consumer spending and retail activity with our baby boom spending thesis. And this is basically grounded on the observation that baby boomers tend to spend more on quality of life and personal indulgences than their parents did when they were at the same age.

Whenever one or two people think they want a study group or discussion - boom - you've got a class. And that's what makes SAGE so great. They're drawing on personal experiences. Been there, done that.

We're experiencing a little bit of a boom out here. We haven't quite dove into it to see how things play out. But we'll probably try to do it slowly.

When I was a kid, my family moved around a lot, and I lived and grew up in a lot of wild places. I lived in boom towns and oil fields and the like.

The refinancing boom and effects from the tax rebates are waning, so spending on big-ticket items such as cars may be slowing down, ... But spending on services, which is where the majority of the job creation occurs, has held on, and we expect it to pick up. Friday's payroll report should be a good indication of that.

There is a shipping boom and a port boom. As long as China is driving the market, the attraction of ships and ports will be sustained.

We heard the boom, boom, boom -- like a series of gunshots, ... It disappeared into its own dust so quickly. We didn't run initially; we just stared at it in awe.

Yes, it's true we are going through dislocations because of a correction related to the boom that ended in the summer of 200, but the foundations of the American economy are very deep and very solid, ... And we are going to be great.

When the market was in a boom every body thought the price would go up and up. It would be positive for people in China to realize the real estate market does not go in one direction only.

We met when we were freshman. I was drawn to his room by his loud stereo and noticed his guitar. I quickly got my drums and - boom - we began jamming.

Let's not forget the fact the recent boom that we've experienced has been attributable very much to the (New York) Stock Exchange, and that the main thing is to keep them in New York.

Last year's boom in aircraft orders, which reached record levels, suggests that a cyclical bust is not far behind.

Some observations can only be done from the ground, such as listen for the sonic boom and observing the hot air trail in the wake of the sample return capsule drift in front of the Moon.

Occupancies overall will probably be down a little bit because of the building boom that is occurring in some of the segments, ... but the average rate probably will increase.

On the first of January of 1929, as a simple matter of probability, it was most likely that the boom would end before the year was out, ... The market wouldn't level out; it would fall precipitately.

I was surprised at how quickly and smoothly the use of the boom went.

I don't know anybody who could take nine weeks off and then boom come back and win a tournament.

Businesses are finding it increasingly difficult to hire qualified workers to fill specific positions, especially high-tech and skilled-labor jobs, which are in demand in Connecticut. The retirement of the baby boom generation in a few years will lead to a critical shortage of workers with the skills necessary to compete in today's high-tech global economy. We need to make sure that employees entering the work force can help drive the innovation and productivity gains that our economy needs to remain competitive in the global marketplace.

Furthermore, there is always the fear that one more building boom will be the straw that breaks the camel's back. We remind investors that the cruise sectors maintained for many years that new supply would create demand until it didn't in 2000-2003.

He feels more a Sires or Champagne Stakes horse so I've told David (Hayes) I'll probably ride Boom Time Savings next week.

He made this thing 25 years ago. It's a cargo chute that's been rubberized. There's a foot-wide Velcro seam up the middle. Everybody picks it up and walks it in. Art Lloyd uses a truck with a boom to pull out the pole after the festival.

We've gone from boom to bust. I hope we're not going too much further than this. But we fully expect to see that as revenues slow up for there to be job cuts.

Today is a very sad day across the hockey world and here in Atlanta. Boom Boom was an incredible man who meant a great deal to me, and I'm fortunate to have called him a friend and a mentor.

He's a very sharp guy who did a really good job at Mutual Series. They got points for not giving up on their strategy during the growth boom and tossing aside dividends and balance sheet analysis.

He was just never a kickoff guy in terms of getting out there and practicing all the time. But you'd watch him kick a 55-yard field goal. He could just boom them.

He just came out with his shotgun and went boom boom.

I wound up becoming an A&R man at London Records in the 1990s, during the boom of Britpop, the last great gold rush of the music industry. I saw incredible greed and terrible behaviour. I was greedy and terribly behaved.

It certainly won't be the boom it has been in the last several years.

Labor force participation peaked in early 2000, so its decline began well before the Great Recession. A portion of that decline clearly relates to the aging of the baby boom generation. But the pace of decline accelerated with the recession.

I think we learned that if you can put all your energy behind one nail head as an industry, and can do with clarity, a compelling case can be made. That would not have been the case in prior years, boom or bust.

I think trying to create intimacy on a set with a boom over your head can be a little embarrassing.

I saw the plane dive. Next thing I knew -- boom -- it came down.

Our cost structure is solid, and demand for high-quality sheet steel is good. We're in the process of breaking out of the industry's usual boom and bust cycle.

Rising oil and gas prices are behind a city-wide boom and have led to greater demand for industrial space.

Rojas is a really polished athletic punter, he can really boom it. I think he will be able to step right in.

People who purchased three or four years back today are finding money to redecorate their homes. This housing boom is giving us a bit of it now rather than three or four years back.

Recent speculation about the demise of the housing boom has been greatly exaggerated.

Part of the problem that all of tech is having with respect to jobs is they significantly over-hired during the boom times and to some degree the past few years has been payback for overaggressive hiring. But I think that process is largely over and we should see slightly better job growth in tech by this time next year.

States with the strongest demand for labor are also those which are experiencing a lift in economic activity from the mining boom and the associated strong investment in new productive capacity and infrastructure.

Someone also forgot to tell Provo that the boom in technology ended in the 90s. That growth in technology is still continuing in Provo, and it's reflected in Micron's recent joint venture with Intel and the hundreds of jobs to be created over the next year or two.

That came out of nowhere. They went from boom to bust. Unfortunately for us, it's a slow leak.

My stepfather was quite into opera, but he'd play it when he was in a bad mood, so you'd hear this boom through the floor, Wagner, and you'd feel nervous.

Marks & Spencer has got its act together, ... There has been a UK retail boom in December but January has gone off to a slow start.

I think over the next five years, the premium luxury segment will grow at double the rate of the volume market because of demographic trends. The Baby Boom generation simply shows no signs of slowing down or retiring.

I thought it would be, like, boom boom boom - every pair was going to be beating my time. But somehow, I held on.

The American people saw unforgettably how federal, state, and local governments failed the people of New Orleans just three weeks ago. What the American people don't realize is how they've all been short-changed for the past three years. Minorities are much more affected by kidney failure than whites. There's a dialysis boom on Indian reservations.

We put it down to the three Cs: Nokia was weak in color, camera and clamshell, which were the three boom areas in 2003 and early 2004. It was quite a way behind the curve on those.

When you're in a boom period, people are making money. When you're in a recession, you can generalize people aren't.

We know that the baby boom has changed society at every age - education, housing, jobs, child care, health care, you name it. That will keep happening as they move into normal retirement, whatever that is.

We came out boom, boom, boom and scored three runs real quick. For them to respond that way knowing they weren't playing real well, that's what good teams do.

Unlike in the United States, where it feels like high prices are going to last forever, in the Middle East, the feeling is that it will not last. So how do you avoid the problems of the 1980s that followed the boom of the 1970s?

We haven't had a single year of falling consumer spending since 1938. There's no boom or bust in consumer spending.

The President has no real plan to address the fiscal challenges arising from the retirement of the baby boom generation, let alone a plan to fix Social Security.

We are in the midst of the greatest investment boom Fiji has ever seen.

We are in the biggest real-estate boom we've ever seen. Something is going to happen to end this.

We're not really talking about boom times by the bay. We're talking slow to moderate growth, but in the normal range of things.

The overall industry is a boom industry. It has demographics and favorable growth prospects on its side, ... Valuations may get ahead of themselves sometimes but that's only a concern for the short term.

Traditionally, institutional funds have always catered to the high-end institutional client That's where the money was. Now, with the boom in retail sales... that pie has gotten so large they want a piece of it.

The decade began with the economy off track, but the population boom kept rolling along and is on track to nearly match the record 1990s. The country found places to keep booming, shying away from the high-cost coasts and seeking the South and the mountain West.

The fact that the boom is ending should not be interpreted as indicating any serious trouble for builders or realtors -- unless, of course, some overextended on debt in expectations that sales would continue to accelerate, ... Prior to the recent explosion in sales, a level of 700,000 had been considered very strong. The current trend should be viewed as a return to normalcy rather than as the beginning of a housing recession.

There has been a baby boom in the congregation, ... but a lot of our members have lots of pets. We have a compassion for unwanted animals. And we're emphatic about making a difference.

We saw a boom in agriculture. You no longer had to settle for grain crops, now you could introduce a whole new variety of crops.

Why is this list growing? The global economy has been growing the last two years at rates not seen since World War II, fuelled by a commodities boom with a whiff of inflation.

This tournament now is a kids tournament, ... It's about college-age players and how far they can boom it. But if the course gets firmer and faster, it will play into my hands. If a kid drives it 40 yards past me in the rough, that's not an advantage for him.

The opening of Disneyland this year could prolong the boom for another two years.

With commodity prices up strongly, and with the likelihood of the resources boom persisting for many months to come, it is hard to see Australia escaping without the need for higher interest rates.

We've noticed that with the 24-7 electronic-technological boom over the last several years, things have really accelerated. The pace of change, the learning curve on the job -- we're seeing some of that stress spill over and have a negative effect on employee attitudes.

Undoubtedly, the retirement of the baby boom generation will strain the economy and its financial markets. The strain, though clearly present, will fall far short of the urgency and degree voiced by some of today's more pessimistic forecasts.

Exports have been disappointing. Higher petrol prices and a waning of the housing boom contributed to the recent moderation in household consumption growth.

But since March, it's been like a boom town, increasing about 50 (inmates) per month.

We see very strong demand now. It's really good times for our business. From a hotel perspective it's boom times.

While the latest retail sales reading is disappointing, the picture of a solid consumer remains, with positive growth in the first quarter, despite the boom in fourth-quarter spending.

You blink, then you look at the clock and ? boom ? we're up by 30. I don't know how it happens ? it's something about the third quarter.

We've had very cooperative relationship with PMA up until six years ago. There has been an amazing boom in trade between the West Coast and Asia and it was accomplished with relative labor peace, with both employer and union prospering.

We have a building boom going on here that is absolutely unprecedented. It just doesn't want to stop.

With home theater and media centers, there has been such an electronics boom within the last five years. But we're lacking behind in technology. Statistics show that 22 percent of new, upscale homes built now include a home theater. Yet builders here have no clue about these things or making homes more energy efficient. We're starting to educate builders and residents.

We expect some slowdown in the mortgage business as the refinance boom fades,

We see 2005 as the year that the Bay Area economy really, finally returned to normal, where you actually started to see job growth in all parts of the Bay Area. We're not really talking about boom times for the bay. We're talking slow to moderate growth, but in the normal range of things.

This oil boom has been funding domestic development, and the capital markets -- that have really changed dramatically over last few years -- have been a conduit for that.

Boom Boom was an incredible man who meant a great deal to me and I'm fortunate to have called him a friend and mentor. I'm sincerely honored to be a part of the same coaching fraternity and to follow his lead as an NHL Head Coach in Atlanta.

Bill Clinton beat Bush's father, President George H.W. Bush, for the White House in 1992 by focusing on 'the economy, stupid' - and Clinton's victory led, in time, to the longest sustained boom in American history.

Everybody's thinking about the dot-com boom of five years ago, but we're not seeing that. Biotech is a terrific industry and it has terrific jobs, but it's not like a chip factory with tons of jobs. It's not as robust as people would like.