Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tina Brown

The 2008 financial crisis is usually attributed to vampire squid greed. There was certainly a lot of that. But it was also just as likely to have been caused by the chaos of process created by those big, sexy bank mergers when, in the name of 'economies of scale,' critical members of the trust and responsibility chain were cavalierly eliminated.

Timothy Noah

I won't dispute that bankers' privileged treatment in the 2008 crash merits populist scorn. But unfortunately, without a bank bailout, there probably would have been a worldwide depression.

Warren Stephens

What we prefer to do is operate our investment bank in a way that is like what investment banks used to be, which is a middle man - someone who is here to match people who need capital with people who have capital - and not position ourselves at the center of that by taking big positions on a trading stance.

Warren Stephens

We've always been modestly leveraged, and we've never believed in a great deal of leverage on either our private equity business or on our investment banking business. And I think it really goes back to my uncle and dad growing up in the Depression and just seeing what happened to people who were overly levered.

Warren Stephens

We don't think of ourselves as a regional investment bank. We think of ourselves as merchant bankers with clients all over the country.

William Kirby

The reform of state industry, and most directly related to that, the banking sector, is enormously daunting.

Zubin Mehta

Israel gives the West Bank water twice a week! One way of promoting good would be not to ration water.

Elizabeth Warren

I think a lot of Americans are not sure which side Washington is on: the side of banks or the side of the people.

Elizabeth Warren

Consumer banking - selling debt to middle class families - has been a gold mine.

Vera Farmiga

I've never felt the breath of God - you can take that statement literally or metaphorically - more than when I was yearning for a personal, intimate connection to something bigger than me.

Etel Adnan

Places are part of nature, of the bigger picture. We are interrelated. When we contemplate them in their own right, they can sometimes change our lives; they can become spiritual experiences.

Rob Sheehan

The point to be made is that there's something bigger than money. That can really help in keeping employees from feeling as though they have some mundane, day in and day out job.

Tim Johnson

The people around Lucedale knew the bigger picture was out there,

Roger Sherman

The people are what always makes the film for me. My films are little portraits for me that make a much bigger portrait. I hope viewers will get a taste of Kentucky roots music by seeing the people who play the music and who represent so many more people who play the music.

Neil Callaway

The outs and curls have been open for David so far, but LSU will play more press coverage and give him a bigger challenge.

Chris Isaak

In the long run, there are people who've made more money or had bigger stardom at points. But, I think I'll have come out winning.

Jacki Weaver

This friend of mine said he was surprised to find that - I don't think it's quite a majority - a bigger percentage of actors are introverts than extroverts. It was a big surprise to him. Now, I know me, and I'll do anything if I'm playing a character. Or anything that's true to the character, anyway. But in real life I'm a little more withdrawn.

Nick Lachey

There's no bigger supporter in Jessica's life than me.

Yolanda Adams

People love gospel music. It's calming. It's soothing. It gets right to the point of whatever you're dealing with.

Tina Turner

People think my life has been tough, but I think has been a wonderful journey. The older you get, the more you realise it's not what happens, but how you deal with it.

Tim Tebow

Before a game, you know, I can take off my helmet, run over there and spend a few moments with someone who is dealing with so much more than I've ever had to deal with and to love on them and care about them and in front of thousands and thousands of people, you know, let them know that they're more important than all of this.

Gilbert Hernandez

I happen to think Latinas, Latin women, are the most beautiful women in the world. So that's what I'm going to draw. I love women from all cultures, of course, but if I was going to deal with any of them, that would be No. 1 for me.

Gil Gerard

It's more fun having him as everyman in the 25th Century. It is better to concentrate on what this planet will be like 500 years from now, and not be dealing with little aliens in space and all that related stuff.

Donald Trump

You learn their honesty, you learn their competitiveness. You learn a lot about a person. It's not that they have to sink the putt and there's a great deal of talent involved - but you do learn about how competitive a person is on the golf course, and frankly, how honest.

William Kent Krueger

Write because you love the work, not because of what might come from it. The journey is the purpose. Very Zen-like, I know, but honest to God it's the truth. And I have never had to deal with writer's block. Knock on wood.

Vivek Wadhwa

The most valuable lesson I learned in dealing with the ups and downs was to invest in my employees - to do all I could for them when the times were good.

Yehuda Berg

If we can remain present and deal with the moment in front of us, no matter what our battle, then if we lose, we'll know that ultimately we weren't supposed to win that battle in the first place.

Idris Elba

I have one of these bodies. When I was younger, I could never put weight on, and now that I'm a little older, there's a natural sort of chubbiness coming. But honestly, if I work out for a week, it drops off in no time.

Gillian Armstrong

We need more drama on Australian TV. We've actually dropped the ball on that.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I don't go to the doctor except when I'm very ill, and when I go to India, I drink a drop of local water.

Romeo Crennel

That would have helped if we would've made that play. He just dropped it, it looked like to me.

Brad Kassell

That was probably the key to the victory. Every time they dropped back to pass he was getting harassed. Those guys up front dominated.

Marc Bulger

We need to have Steven in this game a whole lot more. When the D-line can tee off, it makes it awfully tough on our linemen, and they're dropping eight guys and it's tough for our guys to get open.

Chris Lander

We just didn't make baskets the second half. We've got to be able to shoot from the outside. We had some good looks, but couldn't drop the shots.

Mavis Staples

I sang with my father for over 50 years, and now all of a sudden he's gone, and I just dropped out.

Vic Santoro

We were hoping he would go under 53 seconds, but we're pleased with his drop in time.

Venus Williams

If you look at me, I'm very tall but I'm not huge or muscular. I tend to be slim and you know, I actually can lose weight quicker than I can gain it.

Yehuda Berg

It's enough to make a small shift within and a small action in the world. Collectively these have a huge effect.

Steve Marks

The overall perception was that it would take a year or two to get the problems ironed out. It is a huge endeavor, and we realized it would take time.

Brittany Snow

I love hanging out with my friends; I love to run. I box. I'm a huge movie buff.

Brittany Snow

I am a huge fan of Reese Witherspoon, and I always get told that I look like her little sister. So I would love to play her little sister one day.

David Steinberg

And it was a huge emotional thing to leave the law and become unemployed - to be a student again.

David Cross

I remember being a kid and the Vietnam War was huge and looking at Watergate.

Brent Cahill

That was huge. That was a quality team we beat. We've got some tough kids, and it's a tough group. For us, this is huge for our confidence.

Jason Tapp

That was huge knowing there was a minute to go and we kept them at their end.

Patrick Fugit

The day after I got an agent, I got called in for a role in a TV movie called 'Legion Of Fire: Killer Ants.'

Patricia Cornwell

If it turns out that something indisputably proved that this notorious killer was someone other than Walter Richard Sickert, I would be the first to offer congratulations and retract my accusations.

Patrick McGurn

I think it's a morale killer when you see it disclosed at some of these companies.

Steve Gulley

He is such a talented kid, and he is pure mountain, and you can't take that away from him. I think the project turned out wonderful, and it has been killer early. People all over the world are playing it.

Robert McClure

He was willing to do whatever was required in order to be the serial killer that he was, ... He's like the wolf preying on the weak sheep." ()

Chelsea Handler

This women/ killer was a testament to my theory that the crazier you are, the more calories you burn. That's why psychos are always so skinny.

Laura Wade

Your plays are always personal. You can't help seeing yourself in the serial killer you've just written. But they get less specifically personal.

Elie Wiesel

In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die.

Nina Easton

Shamu the killer whale is Sea World's Mickey Mouse; whales named Shamu are the star attractions of three parks and the focus of their marketing efforts.

Mario Zawadzki

The political situation here doesn't help, but worldwide markets are falling.

Rob Enderle

The overseas market isn't saturated like the U.S..

Chris Walker

The overall market is down a tad anyway,

Michael Carty

The path of least resistance for this market is up right now.

Sheryl Kingstone

The $500,000 offer is a very tactical marketing move.

Peter Fontaine

We have to wait and see how this storm develops, ... We don't have a sense of panic in the market yet.

Peter Fontaine

We have to wait and see how this storm develops, going into Texas. We don't have a sense of panic in the market yet.

Joseph Cohen

Today the markets are already priced for imperfection,

Ned Riley

Today the market anticipated possible problems over the weekend. If nothing happens, we might have a better Monday than we've been having.

Brian Higgins

The only risk we run, ... is by doing nothing.

Carrie Mae Weems

It's very important for me to really use this body as a barometer of a certain kind of knowledge--to take the personal risk of exposing my own body in a certain kind of way. I can't ask anybody else to do something that I don't do first myself.

Carl Sagan

All inquiries carry with them some element of risk.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You risk tears if you let yourself be tamed.

Bill Vaughan

Improving efficiency on the farm is not only a risk-reduction strategy, it's a profitability strategy.

York Chow

We need to have some time to investigate to be sure that this is a new virus and has the risk of human-to-human transmission.

Benny Gray

We were going to get the people. We take risks all the time firefighting, but we didn't want to get shot.

Joe Girardi

I wouldn't do that. You don't want to risk him getting hurt. The only way I would do that is if it's something like the 19th inning and we're out of people.

Jason Giambi

I would give it a try, but they said don't even try. It's not worth risking it. I'm walking a little better. It's not so tight.