The first dog I had was owned by an abusive couple. He was very skittish. He wouldn't let me hold him. It was explained to me that it was because of how he was treated.
Quotes about skittish (16 Quotes)
Maybe you can make another 50 percent from here, but people are skittish, ... The problem in this market is that everyone's looking for the momentum play. Any sort of fear that a company isn't going to be able to sustain a momentum ends up a reason to dump shares.
Intel's earnings announcement has made investors skittish about the prospects for other chipmakers and computer-related companies.
This action would tend to make companies more skittish about investing there. Even if they find the current terms acceptable, even if they enter into a contract with Venezuela, will they keep it.
Lucent was our scare today. It shows that the market is very skittish and vulnerable to any perceptions of bad news.
Arnold set the bar for very high expectations, coupled with strong demands. But the expectations weren't met, the demands weren't honored, and that has voters very skittish. Most voters are showing malaise, even downright disgust.
The market's extremely skittish. There's concerns about strong economic growth and tomorrow's (jobs) number.
Some of our guys, they get skittish working at night after what happened on the zipper lane accident a couple of years ago. And we don't blame them.
A day doesn't go by when the market isn't on the most skittish and volatile path that I've seen in my 35 years at the Big Board. What's driving that is the simple insecurity, or if you will uncertainty of outcome.
I think just Friday's drop in the Nasdaq will make people skittish. It's really pretty light through March and not really stuff you can count on getting done.
I think you could probably describe our play for the whole season as skittish that's the word I've been using. We have moments of doing spectacular things, and then we have moments where we turn around and shoot ourselves in the foot pretty good. We're trying, I swear, to get over that.
The world situation is a very skittish situation right now and our investor world has been a little bit over-complacent in my view. I think you're getting warning shots around the world and I think we ought to pay heed.
The fish were skittish today. Growing up in Florida, I knew how to make them bite. The lake has changed over the years, but they're still Florida fish.
I've long loved balanced funds, especially for skittish investors, because the bonds mask the volatility of the stocks. When I was doing financial planning, I saw that people often had a hard time keeping in mind the overall portfolio, and a balanced fund kind of forces them to do that.
Today's (Tuesday) trade is best summed up as skittish consolidation. We're struggling for direction in thin trade with people reluctant to do much ahead of the anniversary. You saw a late-day reversal yesterday (Monday) from the morning's lows and you're seeing a little pop-up right now, but it doesn't mean anything fundamental. Program traders are dominating the day to day.
The magnitude of the hurricane season last year has people a little skittish.