Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edmund Mierzwinski

Bank fees are still increasing and big banks are charging bigger fees. It's a serious problem for consumers.

Mark Chandler

The simple fact that the trade sector has ceased to be a significant drag on growth will be enough to convince the Bank of Canada to move on September 7 (and beyond).

Jerry Evans

It would seem the bank now realizes that we are falling into a bit of a deep hole.

Arthur Levitt

The SEC is launching more investigations into more big companies than ever before, ... The list of targets includes plenty of Fortune 500 players, including Bankers Trust, Cendant, Waste Management and W. R. Grace.

Jimmy Swaggart

Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact.

Jerry Weller

Restrict bankruptcy rules.

Sam Erwin

Beginning with our first bank in 1987, we have been committed to serving our markets in the true spirit of community banking. We are committed to delivering high quality banking products and services to our customers and thereby enhancing shareholder value, as these are our core values. We are convinced that the value of our franchise and our success springs from that commitment. We are excited about joining our forces under one bank banner, and believe that the excitement will continue to grow as we move forward with our one bank plan.

Allen Adamson

Before a big fashion house is going to bank a lot of money on her as a star, this is a little test market. To use her in a fashion sense is more of a commitment, usually with a multiyear contract. This is a great rehabilitation because she can do a one-off. That, plus time, can set her up to be ripe to get back in the fashion game.

Masayoshi Okamoto

High-tech gains are sort of a given. But if bank shares continue to struggle after Monday's dismal losses, that could put a damper on the broader market.

Steve Fleming

As a father, I did a poor job at dealing with my son. The Special Olympics taught me how to deal with my son, and now he is my best friend. We do everything together.

John Longo

That's where we lost it, but we really, really grinded to get the score we did. I knew we would need our best day of the year to advance.

John Longo

That's where we lost it, but we really, really grinded to get the score we did, ... I knew we would need our best day of the year to advance.

Jack McMahon

People say it's Calistoga's best team since 1992.

Ron Guidry

People say he struggled. But I'll take five guys like him who struggle. Randy is still one of the best pitchers in baseball.

Scott Kahan

People should look at this market as a great learning experience. The best learning experience of how much risk you want to take is going through a down market.

Lou Steinberg

People should know that Camille was someone who always looked out for the best interest of kids, understood the importance of shared decision making and was always willing to listen to the concerns of the community. I think the community owes her a great debt of thanks.

Mark Savage

People should be curious about what the changes will mean, and look around for the best deal.

Jerry Hunton

People reasonably would rather not have one of these next door, but we also get complaints from people who have businesses, chicken houses, all sorts of other things nearby. It's one of those growth issues we're always dealing with, and we do the best we can to solve problems as they appear.

Fred Astaire

People think I was born in top hat and tail

Lon Buchheit

She's a natural born leader. She knows what needs to be done and how to do it.

Gary Murphy

She's a natural born leader for us. I thought that bucket helped us to get (the momentum) back our way.

Joe Girardi

Since high school I've wanted to do this. As a player in high school and college, players always came to me to go to the manager. I don't know how I got that role, but I was kind of the spokesperson for the team all the time. I enjoyed it. I enjoy the competition, and I love studying the game. I think that's why I was born to manage.

Judy Davis

I had quite a repressed childhood. I was born in '55 and by the mid '60s it was still very much a sort of '50s mentality there, being so remote. I just found it stifling. And at some point - I think I was about 12 - I came to the conclusion that it was going to be difficult to survive that little society somehow intact.

Deborah Eisenberg

I find it endlessly interesting, endlessly funny, the fact that we're rather arbitrarily divided up into these discrete humans and that your physical self, your physical attributes, your moment of history and the place where you were born determine who you are as much as all that indefinable stuff that's inside of you.

Jason Burke

I feel extremely fortunate to be able to lead this squadron, ... My oldest daughter was born in Meridian and my family just loves it here.

Ruby Rose

I feel like I'm a boy, but I don't feel like I should've been born with different parts of my body or anything like that. I feel like it's just all in how I dress and how I talk and how I look and feel, and that makes me happy.

Mary Crosby

I didn't have anything to do with being born to my mother and father. But I had a lot to do with Kristin Shepard's notoriety. I'm proud of the work I did on Dallas.

Scott Shane

Mr. Ford's decision to pardon Richard M. Nixon for any crimes he might have been charged with because of Watergate is seen by many historians as the central event of his 896-day presidency.

Jacquie Fernandes

Everything that happened in the past we've let go, we've moved on. Ever since Central last year, this is what we've been waiting for and it's finally here, so we're trying to prove ourselves all over again. Show everybody that we've got a new side and just try to work to get back Central.

Rachel Nichols

There's something so soothing about the hum of Grand Central Station.

Michael Eckert

But we're not looking at anything like we've seen in the last few days like central Texas.

Yi Xianrong

It is a clear signal to the property market that the central government has the determination and the means to curb investments and housing prices.

Wendy Raquel Robinson

I started in dance classes when I was, like, seven years old. And the arts in general, it kept me not only off the street, I grew up in South Central Los Angeles, so it kept my mind focused. It kept me passionate about something. So I wasn't easily distracted.

Clive Granger

Forecasts vary in horizon, from a few seconds up to a few days in financial markets, compared to from one to several months for macro variables. We have to provide uncertainty intervals around the central forecasts to indicate the extent to which we are unclear about the future.

Steve Joyner

We had a little talk at halftime. And after that we had a little better understanding of what we needed to do. I still think Central is one of the most dangerous teams in the CIAA.

Alex Sanchez

We have many women CEOs around the state of Florida. We're seeing that around South Florida, Central Florida.

Ralph Solveen

This is really a very positive surprise but unfortunately it has nothing to do with the economy. It's only a statistical effect because many people who used to be registered as unemployed are no longer included in the numbers.

Chuck Palahniuk

Some mythological fat asswipe drives our national economy.

Mark Zandi

Our economy isn't going to recover until the housing market finds its footing.

Melinda Gates

Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.

Dave Edwards

People like to give to where they live, and after these episodic events they tend to give more. A lot of this has more to do with the economy than with the cause.

Brian Fabbri

All guns seemed to be firing at the same time for the economy in the third quarter.

Lou Jiwei

Everyone knows the U.S. economy shouldn't be so reliant on consumption. More investments should be made.

Alan Kral

Everyone is waiting to see if the Fed does anything, and if it doesn't, what it says about the economy over the rest of the year.

Chris Meyer

Everybody wants to go to India. It's got the largest middle-class in the world, and that means there's plenty of consumerism, the same elements that our (U.S.) economy has.

Davis III

I was right back to work the middle of the day Monday, in the gym, and practiced yesterday with no lingering effects from last week. And that's a major step for me, that I'm feeling better, I'm stronger.

Wendy Wright

Is this safe for women, when in fact there have been no studies done on the long-term effects on women who take the morning-after pill, and there are no studies that have been done on multiple use -- if a woman uses it more than once.

Bruce Arena

I would imagine I'll find some kind of employment after the World Cup. If not, I might want to be a sportswriter.

Gus Whitcomb

We fill a void that is very important in the employment arena.

David Penn

For some of them, it's pretty straightforward. Like manufacturing. That's its own classification in the employment statistics.

Tom McIntyre

People are expecting a strong employment number ... and I think they are being a little hesitant.

Lori Lucas

Our findings show that too many workers are not looking at their 401(k) savings as long-term in nature but are instead using termination of employment as an opportunity to spend this money,

J. Horton

Somebody out there knows this man. I know his face is covered, but if it were my husband and I saw him, I would still recognize his movements and his body.

Marilyn Miller

Protesting in the face of a grieving family is unacceptable.

Douglas Kirkland

The misfortune is that many people, men and women, think that the perfect face has no flaws, no pores in the skin; and that gives unrealistic levels of esteem. Somebody feels they're not right because they haven't got that type of refinement.

Billy Joel

You see firemen, you see cops, and these guys risk their lives everyday. They do this all the time . . . to be able to see a smile on some of these people's faces -- they've gone through so much, they've lost so many of their friends.

Juvenal

The face, not the woman is the attraction.

Julianne Moore

I can only be in the sun for 15 minutes before burning. I have sunscreen on my face every day. If I'm walking on the sunny side of the street, I'll walk to the shady side. I'm too uncomfortable in the sun.

Patrick Chinamasa

The faces sitting in front of you are hungry faces,

Rhonda Jefferson

Though it looked like the same team we faced the first time, they had a lot more kills in this game then they did in the last one.

James Bell

We've got a lot of new faces there.

Adlai E. Stevenson

A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.

Carl Mattei

After a game like that, to think we were one rebound away and we couldn't get it. I told the kids it comes down to free throws and rebounding.

Kate Bush

The freedom you feel when you're actually in control of your own music is fantastic.

Bruce Barton

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Edward Abbey

What good is a Bill of Rights that does not include the right to play, to wander, to explore, the right to stillness and solitude, to discovery and physical freedom?

Source Unknown

To be free of destructive stress don't sweat the small stuff and by realizing that all stuff is small.

Friedrich Hegel

To be free is nothing, to become free is everything.

Phil Boyce

Warner has free rein. It's a policy I've only second-guessed one or two times.

Don Evans

We are a nation of free men and free traders. Now is no time for small plans or shrinking ambitions,

Jean-Paul Sartre

Existence is an imperfection.

Tara Brach

Imperfection is not our personal problem - it is a natural part of existing.

Joyce Meyer

We live in an imperfect world, and imperfect people surround us every day.

Anton Chekhov

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Stephen Hawking

[Question: What do you think was the most important physics idea to emerge this year?] We won't know for a few years.

Plato

They assembled together and dedicated these as the first-fruits of their love to Apollo in his Delphic temple, inscribing there those maxims which are on every tongue- 'know thyselP and 'Nothing overmuch.'

Horace

To know all things is not permitted.

Richard P. Feynman

A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven.

Salvador Dali

All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.

William Arthur Ward

Fools act on imagination without knowledge. Pedants act on knowledge without imagination.

William Ralph Inge

The fruit of the tree of knowledge always drives man from some paradise or other; and even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is habitable.

Will Carleton

There's lots of people-this town wouldn't hold them; Who don't know much excepting what's told them.

Susan Smith

It's probably time to do the whole policy over.