Surprise Quotations

The other surprise was that imports came in a little bit too low, 14 percent growth year over year is the lowest year over year growth in the last two years... I think the fall in imports is a little bit atypical. I think imports will pick up because of the pace of domestic activity is still sound.

The potential is that there could have been a surprise that could have influenced the Fed next Tuesday, and clearly that hasn't happened. But employment is a lagging indicator. So the report is not a reflection of where the economy is going, but where it's been.

The post-Fed performance of the S&P 500 could prove to be the biggest surprise of 2006.

The positive surprise is insurance in Europe, which has performed quite well, including in the Netherlands.

The positive surprise comes from the merchandising operations, which is encouraging.

The PMI is a big upside surprise ... and is at least hinting that services growth stepped up at the end of last year.

The pleasant surprise was how our defensive line played. One question I had coming out of preseason practice was how we would play defensively.

With those companies growing revenues faster than Oracle, it is no surprise to us that Oracle's stock finally came under pressure.

With this film we have given the show a surprise present.

With the workouts we had, ... I was a little surprised we played as well as we did.