No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.

He put a ring in the toe of a stocking. On Christmas Eve we opened our stockings and it was there at the bottom of the toe. Then he got down on his knees and he was shaking.

Christmas is a stocking stuffed with sugary goodness.

There's something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times - one thinks of those wonderful women during World War II drawing stocking seams in eyebrow pencil up the back of legs stained with gravy browning because nylons were so hard to get hold of.

Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi raise aphids as livestock launch armies into war use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies capture slaves engage in child labour exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.

When you get billions in aid and your weapons resupplied and your ammunition stock resupplied you don't learn the lesson that war is bad and nobody wins.

We've got fuel prices coming down and good travel numbers coming out so it's not surprising airline stocks are going up.

I'm very thankful to players like John Stockton and Spud Webb. They've made it possible for someone like me to make it. I think teams are actually looking for one player under 6-feet now because they make things happen.

From coast to coast the FBI and Securities and Exchange Commission have ensnared people not only at hedge funds but at technology and pharmaceutical companies consulting and law firms government agencies and even a major stock exchange.

Today's stock market actually hates technology as shown by all-time low price/earnings ratios for major public technology companies.

It is critical to develop a biofuel industry powered by feedstocks produced in every corner of the country in addition to the Midwest. That is why USDA has established five regional research centers working on science necessary to ensure profitable biofuels can be produced from a diverse range of feedstocks.

The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.

Previously on Lock Stock I went to bed at two in the morning and woke up at five in the morning and on this one I was known to nod off on the set occasionally.

For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing - stocks financial speculation real estate speculation or businesses - makes more money for me than making movies.

Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew who had money to be generous with should be a stockbroker.

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

I couldn't wait until I grew up. I used to look at my mom's stockings and put them on with her high heels and mess with my hair.

Even people who feel perfectly comfortable investing in the stock market and owning their own homes often have qualms about individual medical accounts or Social Security private accounts.

I became CEO at the beginning of the hit on old economy stocks. When something like that occurs in your first six months as a CEO of a more traditional branded firm it makes for a fast learning curve.

Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

I love being at home being with friends and family. I'm of European stock brought up in Australia. I'm a passionate guy. I just love life.

I come from pioneer stock developers of the West people who went out into the wilderness and set up home with nothing but a pair of oxen.

General Howard informed me in a haughty spirit that he would give my people 30 days to go back home collect all their stock and move onto the reservation.