Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bruce Baker

He was a banker's banker. He saw banking not just as a business and a profession but as a way to give back.

Vance Law

Going by the game stats we give up another big inning. Walks and timely hitting by them pretty well spelled doom for us. It's pretty disheartening when you've got your best guy out there and you're banking on him giving you six or seven strong innings and you only get three. We just feel like he was forced out of the game early with walks. I won't say with control, I'll say with walks.

Koichiro Suzuki

I think it's foreign investors who are aggressively buying banking stocks now ... in order to factor in Japan's economic recovery they are buying the most liquid Japanese stocks -- banks.

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.

David Thwaites

I thought we would have been lower -- maybe the U.S. will follow Europe higher. I don't think there's a fundamental reason for it, other than what's going on in the banking sector.

Edward Gramlich

I think that Greenspan does have a very good intuitive sense of the economy, and the hardest thing with central banking is dealing with turning points,

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.

Mark Prince

We're proud of our heritage in West Virginia, and we're proud to move to a brand that has a long-standing place in our country's banking history. Through expanded products and services, our combined company will make banking even more convenient and efficient for Chase customers in our region.

George Bernard Shaw

What I saw were two F-16 jets and they were circling overhead a single-engine plane and other jet fighter pilots were banking very quickly. And I saw them fire two warning flares in the direction of the single-engine plane,

James Mooney

Having sung it through once they raise their voices to their full strength and repeat it, this time slowly circling around in the dance.

Cindi Canary

The vast majority of judges are extraordinarily honorable people, but when you've got big dollars flying around and a lot of special interests circling like hornets over judicial elections, it creates an impression that ultimately is damaging to the judiciary.

Tom Ferrell

A lot of people lately have been circling away from me. Just lucky that when he got his shots I was able to get away and then get my shots later.

Hugh Johnson

A lot of traders will be circling like vultures, to find the companies that are the target of tax selling.

Mike Malaise

There's a lot of these shady lobbyists and special interest groups seeing the possibility that their sugar daddy might go down, and they're circling the wagons. We don't have to be out there convincing people that we're not criminal, the way Tom DeLay does. That takes a lot of money.

Cheri Yecke

Sad to say, with few exceptions, the circling vultures are left-leaning women.

Mary James

The process was as egregious as our original grievance. To us, it has been a matter of (school system officials) circling the wagon, digging in their heels and protecting themselves at all costs.

Dwight Yorke

Keep the faith. We know we are heading in the right direction.

David Thwaites

I suspect it's going to be a fairly weaker open. Stocks are still looking for direction in Europe -- there are no big macro drivers today.

Charles Blood

I think investors should be back in the market. The direction is up from here.

Melissa Pavlicek

I think it's a positive step in the right direction.

Kevan Barlow

I think it's been a positive year as far as going in the right direction. It doesn't always show up in the stats, but I feel like I was productive on the field and the reason is I laid everything out there. I put it on the line for my teammates.

Taha Ramadan

It (Iraq) is cooperating with all initiatives in this direction provided there is no encroachment on Iraq's sovereignty and security,

Tim Wakefield

I think with Jason as our captain, he can lead us in the right direction.

Carl Pope

I think the direction they've said is a positive direction. The question is, 'Are they are going to go there strongly enough?

Kate Warne

I think that the market is in a wait-and-see mood to see whether there is any direction in Friday's reports.

Linda Wallace

Kevin was a fighter up to the end, to live, but she wants everyone to know he fought real hard.

P. James

Kevin Payne was my friend. His wife and children, we shared quality time together. I will always honor him as my friend, first, and a fighter second.

Ray Rivera

He just got too comfortable in there. Any fighter knows, you see a right hand down, you throw that left hook.

Wladimir Klitschko

He's a fighter with a big, big heart. But he provoked me.

Terry Greene

He's a fighter and it's all because of his spirit. His heart is keeping him going.

Suzi Babos

Her opponent was just playing really smart. To (Stephanie's) credit, she is a fighter and is working hard during practice.

Nick Lidstrom

He's been a fighter his whole career. He has had major injuries that never finished him, and that's what we saw this year. He just didn't give up.

Richard Pryor

I'm slower and some days are better than others, but I'm a fighter.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Am I no a bonny fighter?

Ryan Howard

I think it gets guys fired up. If it doesn't fire you up, you've got issues.

Alex Rodriguez

I think it gave us a little fire in our butts. We were a little flat, and I thought after that, we kind of picked it up a little bit.

Charles Dean

He was a disciplinarian, ... Any time you got out of line, any time you fired back or had an attitude, you ran a lot of laps. I think I ran more laps than anyone.

Gary Gait

He just gets fired up and thrives on that challenge.

Casey Hampton

He likes to pick a fight. But in so doing he gets us fired up, too. He says things a lot of guys are thinking, but just don't say.

Ray Durham

He jumped up quicker than I thought he would and hauled butt back into the fire. He ran right back into the hottest part.

Ian Thorpe

Having time away, it reignites that passion and that fire that you have. And I have that back and I'm looking forward to the next four years,

Steve Eckert

He's a slow starter and it's been that way most of the season -- he gets better as the match goes on. I don't know what fired him up, but he got a second wind and it was over.

Jerry Davis

He's just on fire when he comes into games. I really haven't seen him too much this year, but last year we saw him a lot.

Peter King

I also think the Jets would go after Terrell Owens .

Kelly Holcomb

I think the offensive line did a heckuva job of opening it up. We knew what the Jets were going to do to us. They really didn't present us with many problems. It was just kind of smashmouth.

Gus Frerotte

It's all new to me having never played the Jets in the same conference,

Bill Belichick

There's a lot of love between us -- me, Charlie, Romeo. We've been together with the Giants, the Patriots, the Jets and the Patriots again. For it to be able to end this way ... the only word I can think of is 'special.'

Mike Serba

One of the big mistakes a team can make is get a one or two-goal lead and start sitting back ... while the other team has the opportunity to turn on the jets offensively and put some pucks in the net. We didn't want that.

Patricia Schroeder

A draft doesn't produce the people we need to satisfy our real manpower shortage. We need specialists to keep our jets flying.

John Updike

In tennis, there is the forehand, the backhand, the overhead smash and the drop volley, all with a different grip.

Rick Hoffman

I've always said that it's like being the winner of three separate lottery tickets - getting a pilot, getting the pilot picked up, and having a show that actually lasts.

Will Wright

Yes... well, I used to have a pilot's license.

Willard Scott

I've produced more pilots than United Airlines, and they've all been disasters. Every audition I ever took in my life I lost.

Will Arnett

This pilot, by far, was the best I ever read - and I hope that insults every other pilot I worked on.

John Remington

They can't survive a strike by the pilots for more than 24 hours.

Paul Scheuring

I've interfaced with a lot of other creators of serialized shows, and I've really been blown away by the fact that they create a big spectacle, at the beginning, in the pilot, and they don't ultimately know where they're going. That's terrifying to me, and creatively disingenuous.

Mr. T

To be a bodyguard is to be a kamikaze pilot. Dedicated.

Mr. T

I am the best bodyguard, because I'll take a bullet, I'll take a stab wound, I'll take a hit upside the head; I'm like a kamikaze pilot.

Kathryn Bigelow

I did a pilot for Anything But Love in 1988 that didn't sell.

Seth Shostak

The planets and moons of our solar system are blatantly visible because they reflect sunlight. Without the nearby Sun, these planets would be cryptic and dark on the sky.

Michael Chang

I think when you first come out here, you're very sensitive to planes overhead.

Fred Williams

I ain't got no plane money. I just stayed... this is all I got right here.

Tricia Helfer

We only have this one planet; we got to figure out how to live on it without destroying it.

River Phoenix

Although I can't stop all cruelty to living creatures on the planet, I can be kinder to every living creature in my life.

Jonathan Schwartz

I want to see most of the planet online.

Jeff Moore

Once one planet comes down with life, they all get it.

Richard Bliss

Not until I got off that plane out there.

Randall Munroe

The universe is probably littered with one-planet graves

Bill Cowher

I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for him. He saw something in me I'm not sure I saw in myself.

Denny Green

He didn't get in. I thought he was in until I saw the replay.

Mike Patterson

He just saw the same things in me and him.

Danny Aiello

My father never saw me play ball, and I was an outstanding ballplayer. I missed all that adoration.

Shun Long

I tipped it. I just saw it and I took it.

Phil Garner

What you saw is some of our typical games. And we managed to somehow get through it and we just didn't eke it out this time.

Anand Gopal

I was living near the Twin Towers on 9/11, so I saw the attacks, and I had friends who were killed in the attacks.

Jim Tressel

I didn't really see it at all. All I saw was there was a big pileup.

Jose Antonio Vargas

I did not realize how broken I was until I saw how broken Mama was.

Libba Bray

Warning: If you are insufferable, do not walk here. We shall eat you down to the marrow.

Neelie Kroes

You can take this as a gentle word of warning, if you like. We are just at the beginning of a period of more intensive antitrust enforcement.

Rachel Caine

Maybe she'd seen too many Japanese horror movies, and maybe it was just a tingle of warning from generations of superstitious ancestors, but suddenly she knew that what Alyssa wanted was not to be saved, but for Shane to join her. In death.

James Patterson

WARNING If you dare to read this story, you become part of the Experiment

Bill McKibben

We've been given a warning by science, and a wake-up call by nature; it is up to us now to heed them.

Chelsea Handler

There are no warning signs on the trampoline. The warning is the trampoline.

Jamie Zawinski

My one purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others.

Tony Robbins

Everybody's life is either a warning or an example. You've got to decide what you're gonna be and you have to draw a line in the sand.

Steven Biko

Any warning normally implies, even if it is tacit, that there should be changes