Famous Quotes & Sayings

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).

If you're robbing a bank and you're pants fall down, I think it's okay to laugh and to let the hostages laugh too, because, come on, life is funny.

Yu Yongding

The central bank could scrap the way it automatically determines the closing rate of the yuan and determine it on its own.

Susan Grant

The company's check is counterfeit, of course. And you're stuck owing your bank all the money you've wired.

James Stewart

The euro can be a serious problem for the U.S. but there is little the European Central Bank can do; it's already raised rates aggressively, ... The euro could gently descend to 80 cents.

Stephen Stanley

The crux of the statement was unchanged (from the last meeting). They said that policy remains accommodative, but that the central bank will respond to changes as needed. That's been the mantra since the tightening period began last June.

Robert Martinez

This is money that has never been Bank of America's money. The best estimate at this stage is that it's around $100-million over a five-year period.

Kevin Kelly

This is money in the bank earning interest, not bonds, not debt.

Hasitha Premaratne

This is a good signal by the central bank to control credit, as it's further fueling inflation.

I wish I had a dollar for every time I spent a dollar, because then, Yahoo!, I'd have all my money back.

Warren Buffett

The policies that we're following are likely to lead to a weaker dollar over a long period of years. It's not a forecast for next week, or next month or even next year.

Spike Jonze

Felt is not the easiest thing to animate. It's very flimsy.

Miles Teller

I've always felt like I can dance.

David Chase

Last year, we felt we needed more teachers. I'm troubled that we're not going after personnel just because we don't have the room for them.

Jose Maria

Many people in Galicia may have felt upset because the prime minister hasn't been here earlier,

Bill Sweetenham

Many times I felt like this is not worth it, that I am trying to do an impossible job.

Eric Beder

Sean John felt he has the heft to go it alone.

Mary Lambert

So I want to make money. I think it's an OK goal to have. I always felt like I can't ask for that. But why not?

Mark Rydell

So he was really a tortured fellow, ... He felt very lonely during that period. But he felt that it helped him. And it did.

Stephanie Black

So, I got up at 11 and it was actually 10 o'clock. Well, so it was 10 or it was 11. Well, it was 11 o'clock, but it felt like 10 o'clock.

Bobby Scott

The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.

Daniel Kahneman

The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future.

David Arquette

I love round people, I love skinny people. I love people in general; we've got to get past labels and stop being so critical about everything.

Dan Brown

The decisions of our past are the architects of our present.

Daniel Yergin

An important United Nations environmental conference went past 6:00 in the evening when the interpreters' contracted working conditions said they could leave. They left, abandoning the delegates unable to talk to each other in their native languages. The French head of the committee, who had insisted on speaking only in French throughout the week suddenly demonstrated the ability to speak excellent English with English-speaking delegates.

Ambrose Bierce

YESTERDAY, n. The infancy of youth, the youth of manhood, the entire past of age.

Anthony Kiedis

Personally, I am stuck with one foot in the past and one foot in the present.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Woman must come of age by herself. This is the essence of 'coming of age'-to learn how to stand alone. She must learn not to depend on another, nor to feel she must prove her strength by competing with another. In the past, she has swung between these two opposite poles of dependence and competition, of Victorianism and Feminism. Both extremes throw her off balance; neither is the center, the true center of being a whole woman. She must find her true center alone. She must become whole.

Anna Akhmatova

As the future ripens in the past, so the past rots in the future -- a terrible festival of dead leaves.