Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Bove

I think it's clear that the banks that are more tied to the retail sector are going to have a much tougher quarter compared to those with diversified positions. The banks in the retail sector have to deal with interest rate compression, loan volume will be tougher, and they don't have the trading or investment banking that are hot now.

Vincent Farrell

I think the basic fundamental underpinnings are very sound. The banking system's sound, there's no near-term crisis to be had. It doesn't mean the stock market's not overextended - which I believe it is and is due for some sort of setback. But I don't think it's 1987 all over again.

Philipp Meyer

I thought that I would have a huge literary novel coming out when I was, like, 29. I quit my banking job, and I was halfway through my second novel - and I will never publish it, because it's very mediocre.

Andy Collins

I think that the smaller banks are probably going to have more difficulties in the upcoming six-to-12 months simply because they have relied on loan growth to drive EPS growth to meet consensus expectations. And loan growth is not where you want to be. Bread-and-butter banking is not that great of a business. And you're also the ends in terms of margin pressure. The Fed has raised rates 175 basis points, which usually translates into a much more difficult margin environment. And I think that that is going to hurt the bank below the top 15 in market cap for the near term. I would say the larger-cap banks, once they get over the capital markets issues they're experiencing over the second quarter, should see a little bit more strength.

Tom Finucane

I'd like to think that this is a bottoming out and people are starting to see the value that a lot of these banking stocks offer. I'd like to think there's some bottoming out and strength, but in general the market is nervous.

Andy Penman

Retail banking remains a concern, as does unsecured lending. However, with bid speculation helping the valuation, this should provide support for the share price.

Adam Dener

Retail banking is a distribution game. The models for best practices in distribution are companies like Wal-Mart and the niche retailers.

Stephen Greene

Regulators can't regulate the banking sector by themselves. They need the market.

Wataru Kasatani

Investors already learned about the recovery in Japan's banking industry and the Mizuho sale gives them another investment opportunity.

Harold Vogel

He did it the honorable, wise and decent way,

John Bonamego

I thought we did a pretty decent job. Those were really good numbers.

Cliff Reed

I thought we competed, I thought we played decent on the defensive end. Only when we scrambled did we give up a lot of easy opportunities.

Adam Luchterhand

We made two mental lapses where we gave them open shots in the corner. From there, we just got cold. We got some decent shots and just weren't able to get them to fall.

Felipe Alou

He had a pretty decent sinkerball and a good slider ? and good hitting. He can hit, by the way. Some people might besurprised.

Alan Vest

He has been a decent player in the past...but things have not worked out here.

Michael Mann

I relate more to the fact that 80-inch plasma has just started to become ubiquitous and in people's homes the fairly decent 5.1 sound system and the big screen isn't that out of reach.

Randy Pope

I'm not saying we're a great team by far, but usually if you have a pretty decent program going, sometimes when the top don't get it done the bottom's gotta pick it up. That happens every so often.

David Jones

The first half we played decent zone defense. But we had too many turnovers that led to too many easy points for them. Hollidaysburg managed to switch defenses on us and got us confused. Their pressure gave us some problems and we have to be able to make those adjustments.

Matt Kelmon

I think the odds of it getting shut down are very, very slim at this point. As an investor, it's going to be a very, very choppy stock between now and February 24. It's not for widows and orphans. That being said, the stock is cheap. When the overhang's gone, the stock will go higher.

Luis Derbez

We think that it will be around January or February maybe

Surapong Suebwonglee

I think that all this will be solved within this week before the rally on February 4.

Frank Arnesen

He is 31 in February and it is the ideal situation for him and us -- and he will stay here for 18 months.

Joerg Kraemer

All this suggests that the ECB is in no hurry to hike interest rates. A move in February can effectively be ruled out.

Song Guoqing

The main reason for the slowdown in February inflation is weaker food price rises.

Carl Neill

RSI reached the lowest level ever in the history of the February contract.

Billy Donovan

You're playing a game right now, living each moment. Play each moment. They peaked and probably played well because of the setbacks we had in February that helped us grow.

Dave Cassels

We're looking to start in mid to late February and run through March and all of April.

Jiang Zemin

I was invited by President Clinton, ... So it will be up to the United States to handle these events.

Bengie Molina

He kept saying he was sore, he was sore. He couldn't do another pitch. He couldn't handle it.

Wayne Lawson

He knows he scares people. You get the impression he knows how to handle them.

Quincy Jones

I lost my mother when I was 7 and they put her in a mental hospital. My brother and I watched her being taken away in a strait jacket. That's something you never forget. And my stepmother was like in the movie 'Precious.' I couldn't handle it. So I said to myself, 'I don't have a mother. I don't need one. I'm going to let music be my mother.'

Paul Hackett

What you have to like is how he handled the situation, how he handled the team, his calmness, how he ran the team,

Todd Shipley

He's a big, strong kid who can handle the pounding an inside runner is going to take.

Garrett Gomez

He's a grinder. I was very impressed with the way he handled everything.

Dan Peitz

Going a mile, I didn't know if we could handle everything. Our horse wants to run farther.

Sidney Crosby

Going through two years of junior, it taught me a lot about myself, how I can handle it, ... You have to worry about hockey. Handle stuff outside of that when you need to, but just worry about hockey. That's what I learned.

Craig Biggio

Just seeing it in spring training was something that was pretty special. We wanted the winning one, and hopefully we can turn that around and maybe get one.

Mark Shapiro

He'll be in the middle and hopefully we'll let him work his way toward the back.

Chris Coghlan

There is a kind of sense of urgency. We do need to win two of three and hopefully even sweep.

Zach Thomas

He's doing what we need. A big percentage of the team needs that mental toughness, and that's what we have always needed here. That will hopefully pan out and make us a tougher, nasty team. We want it where teams don't want to play us.

Steve Eanes

Hopefully we don't have to deploy it a whole lot.

Rob Hummel

Hopefully we can keep getting these kind of crowds. I'm not sure what it was like in 1994, but I hope they'll keep coming.

Gary Green

Hopefully we can get him on track as we go on. We're not worried about doing everything at once. Let's just do one thing at a time.

Vernell Brown

He went first, now hopefully the rest of us will get our shot.

E. O. Wilson

Our losing streak ended, so hopefully the Leafs' will end theirs (tonight).

Amber Bowman

I would say this is a turning-point in our season we want to come in this weekend and show them we're a different team and that we've improved a lot since the last time we played them.

Penny Circle

He is responding to treatment and shows improvement every day.

Mark Donahoe

There are signs out there that the market is discounting this (economic improvement) six-to-nine months out.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

Engineering or technology is all about using the power of science to make life better for people, to reduce cost, to improve comfort, to improve productivity, etc.

James Leal

What would BBVA do with Lloyds? Will it improve the cost/income ratio, which is already very low? There are lots of unanswered questions there.

William Butler Yeats

For men improve with the years;And yet, and yet,Is this my dream, or the truth?

David Ganey

He showed improvement all season long and that paid off with a trip to the state tournament.

Kevin Johnson

I think it shows in our free-throw shooting. We were 12 out of 26 from the free-throw line. It took us too long to get into our offensive sets. We will improve on that by next season.

Kevin Williams

I think their new offense is pretty good. It's an improvement, but it will take some time to get running.

Paul Otellini

I think it is going to be less than people expected. But it's probably not as poor as looking only at retail would indicate.

Fisher DeBerry

Going into Washington we probably know less about this team than any,

Frank Badillo

There is more of a risk this season that people will be less able to make payments on these offers.

Billy Hunter

When he told me that he was guaranteeing us no less $500,000 and up to a million, I said, 'Cool,'

Joe Hopkins

What you saw was the lesser of two beatings.

Dave McAlindin

It has always been our philosophy that less is better.

Vance Walberg

He's first-team all-league. I put a lot on him. He's got experience, leadership. He's just very well-balanced. He's meant a lot to this team. Without him, we'd win a lot less games.

Karel Poborsky

I do not see any reason why I should be less prepared than in a top-flight team.

Charles Coles

He is more than just a teacher. We're able to talk to him about things we can't say to teachers, because he is more like us and less like them.

Bobby Flay

My first trip to the racetrack was with my grandfather, Willie Flay, and it was at Belmont Park,

Charlie Anderson

He did not yell anything, he did not say anything, he just ran his truck over the crosses.

Sean Fleming

He is the type of wrestler who can be ranked in the state and do some big things in tournaments.

Randy Woods

The range is 40 yards and in, preferably 30 yards and in. And every manufacturer will tell you the same thing.

Larry Brown

He doesn't know any plays. Not that we ran any the first half.

Robert Pattinson

I'd like to be called Ransom Spunk or Spunk Ransom.

Maria Sharapova

I just kind of ran out of gas, basically.

Malik Rose

I ran right by him. I didn't touch him.

Don Shuler

Christiansburg's ranked nationally in the top 10. They don't have many weaknesses. They're strong from top to bottom. Fortunately, there's only one of them in each weight class.

Sean Kelly

I just remember thinking, 'I don't know what I'm doing so open,' so I just ran in and scored.

Dusty Baker

He can wait 'til Monday. The Padres are the team he's had his most success against.

Sarah Brown

The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.

Kim Brown

It could be synergistic, to buoy the success of that program,

Fred Wilpon

I think it's progress. I'm not sure success is unless you are in the playoffs.

Jim Beattie

He's getting away from what made him a successful pitcher.

Justin Timberlake

I think people sometimes don't pay enough attention to what they do. I've done well, but the reason is pretty simple: I've worked my ass off. The toughest thing a performer can do is make it look as if it comes easy.

Kevin Criswell

We have to be. If we want to have any success in this tournament we have to do it. We're probably a little under-talented, but we'll play better as a team.

John Gibbons

He does all the things successful lefties do,

Robert Collier

You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good things, and the flowing fountain, which awaits the successful achievement or attainment of the desires.

Richard D. James

There's a lot of melancholy in my tracks.

Richard D. James

I'm a quite erratic person: From setups to actually when I'm doing a track, it's just turning and switching and changing all the time.

Valentino Rossi

It is dangerous and unbelievably fast and entirely different from the kind of track I am used to racing on

Richard Dawkins

Evolution normally does not come to a halt, but constantly 'tracks' the changing environment.

Ursula Andress

Don't take anything from me because I'll track it down.

Robert M. Pirsig

A person filled with gumption doesn’t sit about stewing about things. He’s at the front of the train of his own awareness, watching to see what’s up the track and meeting it when it comes. That’s gumption. If you’re going to repair a motorcycle, an adequate supply of gumption is the first and most important tool. If you haven’t got that you might as well gather up all the other tools and put them away, because they won’t do you any good.

Robert Farrar Capon

A good time occurs precisely when we lose track of what time it is.

Robin Trower

I don't tend to have a favorite album; I tend to have favorite tracks. There are flaws in every album that spoil it for me.

Robin McKinley

The train is roaring toward you and the villain is twirling his moustache and you're fussing that he's tied you to the tracks with the wrong kind of rope.

Charles Fletcher

He could've won by 10 lengths if he wanted to.

Greg Davis

Having won 19 games, to think that they've won 34 is just unbelievable.

Tom Ferguson

I think (the Fringe) is wonderful because . . . this is not 'Annie Get Your Gun,'

Mary Campbell

We feel it is a wonderful program, and they do wonderful things.

Jack Nicklaus

When he won his match, I told him, 'We'll, you've doubled your allotment for the week,'

Curtis White

I think we should have won by more (against Muncie Central), but we've been off (from competition) for a bit, and we're kind of rusty.

Jim Rash

I think what's wonderful is that 'Community' has always had its voice, has always had it's vision, and that started from the very beginning.

Catherine Jones

I was wondering that myself. I don't know.

Joe Girardi

I was 1-4, and we won 125 games. I'll take 125 wins.