Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Russell

as gold works its way higher, and as central bank inflation continues, the 'great unwashed public' will become increasingly more concerned with protecting their purchasing power and protecting what wealth they still possess. Thus fear of loss of wealth and purchasing power will continue to power the great bull market in real money -- gold.

Ed Mierzwinski

As for the consumer, I think the savings is diminished compared to how much more the bank will make in these transactions. They are trying to increase the use of debit cards to increase their profits.

Stephen Schwartz

As Bank Indonesia has recognized, it will be important to continue to monitor developments and raise interest rates as needed in the near future,

Cheri Butcher

As a bank we have a fiduciary obligation to our customers and their money. The services necessary for an individual's investment plan might not all come out of the same department. We might refer them to our loan department for debt consolidation for example.

Carolyn Kwan

The business conditions survey is going to take center stage for Canada, maybe in particular because the Canadian dollar seems to be playing an important role in the Bank of Canada's thinking now.

Paul Blank

A Wal-Mart bank not only dangerously mixes commerce and banking, but represents a disturbing concentration of capital in the hands of one single corporation, Wal-Mart.

Pierre Omidyar

A well-functioning microfinance bank can actually be a profitable business as well. So it became a perfect proof point that, through business, you can provide an experience that leads to individual self-empowerment.

R. Inge

Bank results have been in line with expectations. But the talk is more the rebound in the oil prices and the pick up in the resource stocks as the quarterly earnings come out.

Tom Woods

Bank regulators understand that investor confidence is very important.

Arkady Volozh

Any good business is a hobby. We have an integrated company culture, and I can honestly say that many people who come here to work make Yandex a central part of their lives.

Michael Eisner

As far as the essential part of our business we're doing great,

David Cheng

A second license in a matter of two weeks further illustrates the potential of our product in Europe, ... The fact that a government-run lottery has chosen to do business with Pegasus Gaming further validates us as a player on the world stage.

Geoff Dupaix

As each city grows and develops, it's important to coordinate signals so that traffic can move as efficiently as possible. It's going to happen in incremental steps. This is just the next step, but it's a very important step because there is a lot of traffic that goes through and around Provo, which is a major business center.

Bruce Kasman

As destructive as past storms have been, they didn't leave an imprint on the U.S. business cycle,

Abbe Lowell

As happens probably dozens of times a week in businesses in New York, the partners have a variety of disputes. And these disputes will work their way out. At the end of the day, Dr. Straus will be found to be a highly skilled, highly competent, highly professional, highly ethical doctor.

Joe Lieberman

A short-term economic stimulus to help lift us out of this economic slowdown has to be followed by business tax credits and smart investments to sustain longer-term growth,

Mike Cooke

As far as notifications, we think there are certain instances where businesses might want to notify consumers and certain instances where they might not to inform them.

Roman Cizdyn

As expected, it's redoing its portfolio to focus on the profitable business and that's why there's a continued collapse in individual pensions. It has to focus on profitability; that's clearly what it's about now.

Marc Singer

Other people were fantastic at tapping into electricity. We'd be in a place with no electricity and they would make electricity happen.

Shawn Rojeski

Normally, European ice is straight, and Canadian ice gets a real big curl. A 4- or 5-foot curl is normal up there. When the ice is straighter, there's less room for error. If we had to pick between the two, we'd take Canadian ice, but were reasonably comfortable with the ice here.

Michael Sprung

Oil is stronger. That'll be reflected in the Canadian market. We'll wait and see what the Fed does. One more quarter point after today is fine, but if there's a hint that the current course will continue further, there will be concern in the market.

Monty Hall

Actually, I'm an overnight success, but it took twenty years.

John Williamson

Defeated and retiring members will win financially thanks to a gold-plated pension plan and rich severance payments for parliamentarians. Shed no tears for retiring or defeated MPs. They are being well looked after by Canadian taxpayers.

Brent Grulke

Are all Canadians talented musicians? Sometimes it seems like it.

Ian Nakamoto

Any steel company that's not a global player, which none of the Canadian guys are, are suspect of being taken over, or potentially could be taken over.

John Wright

The strength of the Canadian dollar and its impact on manufacturing and exports, plus the ascendancy of China and India as major global economic players, may be putting a degree of caution into the air.

Dustin Milligan

The thing about Canadian women is that they seem less likely to bring up that they're Canadian. You here less about Canadian actresses than actors, I don't know why.

Bill Brewer

Any time a world class facility like the South Coast Equestrian Center is built, especially in a city like Las Vegas, the quarter horse industry will benefit.

Jason Williams

Any player would want to play with a center of his caliber. Until you really play with one, I don't know what it's like. I can only imagine -- and my imagination is amazing.

John Cohen

As a center fielder, Antone can play with anybody. He gets great jumps and covers a ton of ground out there. It's a luxury for us because we can play him out of position, but he has such great speed he can make up for it.

Sharon Moore

Avalon Center is the only program in the county that provided abused women and children with a safe home when home isn't safe anymore,

Keith Bellows

A world-class cultural center in a rural setting, the home of Dartmouth College is ideal if you're an outdoors person,

Tom Ridge

As of today, we now have full nationwide connectivity to the Homeland Security Operations Center, a 24-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week nerve center for homeland security information and incident management,

Anne Campbell

That play in center field by Sarah was big. I thought we played really well. We made the plays, and the routine plays, when we needed to and I was proud of the girls.

Tommy Bailey

Our defensive deserves this game. Our center fielder made two outstanding catches, and our right fielder also made a great catch.

Mike Hargrove

Offensively, I think we hoped for a little more out of Jeremy and I know he expected a lot more from himself. Defensively, he gave us more than we expected. He's going to get better at the plate, but he showed us he can play the heck out of center field.

Bill Belichick

Arrowhead is a tough place to play, ... Being able to deal with the hostile crowd, the noise and the conditions out there is always challenging.

Samson Smith

The big story of the state meet may be the weather. The snow conditions will be great for free riding, but maybe not for racing.

Keith Holloway

Our air-traffic group is looking at the decision-making process and how they decided which runway to use and which ones not to use. We are also examining the responses between the pilots and the air-traffic controllers and what they viewed as the conditions of the runway.

Bertrand Delanoe

often unacceptable conditions in which families in social difficulty live in our country.

Scott Kelly

... No rain is in the forecast for the rest of the week. This means that ground conditions will become even drier.

Kermit Baker

After six years of recession-like conditions in the industry, 2006 is shaping up as the year that will launch a non- residential expansion, picking up some of the slack from a cooling residential market.

Javier Solana

Once these conditions are fulfilled, the European Union will stand ready to continue to support the Palestinian economic development and democratic state building.

Watson Okubo

During the height of the spill, the conditions were 20,000 times over our standard and we find that very alarming.

Giuliana Sgrena

Do you know in what conditions such video are made? Do you think I was free to say what I wanted? To be a hostage means one is not free to talk freely in a video. Yes, they gave me food, drink and medicine, but I was captive, without light, without nothing. But do you think I was free to say the kidnappers didn't treat me well?

Pat Taylor

As a result of the campaign, we've done 27 million dollars of construction on campus.

Tom Fitzpatrick

The broad-based picture of dollar strength remains intact and further gains look very much in the cards.

Simon Derrick

The big support that Fed rate increases had been giving the dollar is starting to wane and the minutes made that clear.

David Anderson

Prices are rising because of expectations. If we have it in our heads that oil is going to do well and we start putting dollars into it, then the prices will iron out.

Alex Beuzelin

Deteriorating market sentiment for the U.S. economy and yesterday's less-than-ringing endorsement of the strong dollar policy by Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill fueled the dollar's latest losses,

Michael Klawitter

The theme in the market remains interest rate differentials, it's not surprising to see the dollar come under some pressure.

Jens Nordvig

The thing to watch now, once the 15 minutes' 'noise' after the number is out of the way, is whether there will be a resumption of the weak dollar trend.

Paul Frost

(Strawberries) crack, just like cherries. You have to go out and strip them. It's like throwing away dollar bills.

Eddie Murphy

Right now, we've got to stretch that dollar as far as we can.

Pete Madland

A wild guess, maybe 5 or 10 percent stay open all night.

Michael Gambon

People should be shrouded in mystery. Especially actors. No, hang on, maybe actors should be blown up.

Tim Raines

Now maybe they'll talk about us more than the Cubs,

John Talbot

The scanner's about the size of a toaster, maybe just a little longer,

Ellen Borakove

The work on the roof has only just started, so maybe there will be more discoveries to come as the work progresses.

Kiki Vandeweghe

That's interesting. Maybe it was a Freudian slip.

Rick Beggs

You might recover some hardware, buttons, maybe the back of a skull.

Golshifteh Farahani

The Iran I'm dreaming of maybe doesn't exist anymore.

Dana Stabenow

Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.

Gloria Allred

Some were told that the reason they had to stand in a particular spot was to make sure that construction workers passing by the trailer would not be able to see them.

Betty Cuthbert

You've got to stick at a thing, a particular thing, until you succeed.I feel that's the only way to succeed - by concentrating on something in particular. Once you know what you've got to do you will succeed, you will succeed.

Barry Unsworth

But whatever the ramifications, whatever turns the path takes, the beginning is always there, in a particular moment, a particular point of access.

Ronda Rousey

Every chick I try to intimidate in a different way. You have to think about their personality. You have to think about what would get under that particular person's skin the most.

Tom Sneddon

We have a cooperative victim in this particular proceeding.

James Allen

We say use a program that is appropriate for the particular situation.

Martin Lee

There's one particular woman who does a lot of cooking.

Dave Riggins

We've been working on this particular program since November.

Mike Slive

What I think you should know is that I'm not wedded to any particular format.

Dwane Casey

As long as he is playing at that level, he is our starting center.

Robert Ramos

Railroad tracks aren't anything to be playing with.

Bronson Arroyo

Probably as soon as I turn on the TV and see the Red Sox playing and I'll be playing somewhere else.

Carl Jackson

Oh, he was playing terrible before the tournament.

Dan Anderson

Northbrook was playing pretty tough today and we struggled out there (but) there's no time for us to get upset about today because we have to get right back at it in Two Rivers.

Daniel Gibson

After the first half, we got the jitters out of the way. We started playing basketball.

Bob Schaefer

After we went up 10 we stopped playing the rest of the half. They were more aggressive. We took a 10-point lead, and we were down (eight) at halftime.

Nobuhiko Matsunaka

After seven years, I'll be 39, but I want to keep playing until I'm 40.

Paul Troth

Defensively, we're making tremendous strides. We're playing smarter and better.

Benigno Aquino III

I remove a lot of the pressure from myself by saying I'm not competing with my parents. They are the persons who taught me my ideology. They actively practiced what they preached. They're the exemplars and the role models. So how does one compete with a mentor?

Eric Walters

I wrote my first 30 books as a teacher. I would read to my classes, and they'd give me feedback. I was trying to role model.

Carroll Quigley

In fact, violence as a symbol of our growing irrationality has had an increasing role in activity for its own sake, when no possible justification could be made that the activity was seeking to resolve a problem.

Charles Barkley

I'm not paid to be a role model, parents should be role models.

Asa Butterfield

For every role you get, there are five roles that you don't.

Ben Foster

The roles I'm interested in or have been interested in, you know, it's going to get down to conflict. Drama is conflict - conflict of interests.

Donna Mills

You know, when they called me about the role, I thought Knots Landing was a show about a houseboat with Andy Griffith!

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

It's always the script first choosing roles. [Then] whoever else is attached. I never like to be the first person attached, because I don't really trust what's going on, unless there's a really good director.

Anthony Hopkins

I don't have any [favourite role]. I'm just a working actor.

Allan Bristow

As of right now, that's our only option, ... We'll look for others. But right now that seems to be the best.

Jeff Sluman

Other days, making one or two birdies seems like it's going to be impossible.

Diane Siri

I've accomplished most of the things I set out to do. It just seems like the right time to make a transition.

Rick Dickson

Somebody said it was a week ago Sunday this all began, ... It seems like many years ago.

Kenny Chesney

now he seems to think he can tell Renee what to do, what to wear, where to go and who to see.

Peter Hitchens

The whole of the U.S. system seems to be creaking at the moment,

Todd Rundgren

It seems like there are two worlds out there - one that has revolved around 'Breaking Bad,' and then the one that I've been in, which just kind of observes it from afar.

Jay Bilas

Even though it seems like a short timeframe, there's a lot that can happen.

Jill Wagner

When work seems like a job, I don't do it anymore. I always want it to be something I'm interested in and something that challenges me.

Taye Diggs

I'm always up for going back to the stage.

Michael Jackson

I love surprising people with a present or a gift or a stage performance or anything.

Michael Richards

I lost my temper on stage.

James Bailey

If it's still in the trial stage no.

Etta James

The only time that I am really truly happy—when I feel at my best—is when I'm on the stage.

George Strait

I like the part where you walk up on the stage and you're up there for the show. I like that part.

Cate Blanchett

Being on stage a lot is quite physical.

Jessie J

I never stop working when I'm on stage, and that's my fitness.

C. S. Lewis

We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage.

Garth Brooks

Tell that someone that you love, just what you're thinking of, If tomorrow never comes.

Malcolm Scatliffe

Right now we're not even thinking about Iowa.

Larry Bowa

The Yankees are one of those unique organizations. All I'm thinking about is winning another World Series. That's it.

Sean Millington

This is something I've been thinking about for a long time. It was time to do it.

Cindy Campbell

This is something he was thinking about even before he was in that situation,

Jason Craft

That's how I go into the game, ... I go in there thinking it's going to be up to me to make things happen.

Brett Eldredge

The biggest challenge, I think for any new artist, is patience.

Brett Ratner

You've got to think about how to do things for the right price. You have to shoot in different places to be creative and get tax rebates.

Brett Ratner

I'm trying to be a little bit more mature about my choices and think about what I want to direct next, instead of just jumping into a movie 'cause I want to do it.