Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Blinder

The last duty of a central banker is to tell the public the truth.

Mark Twain

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain

Mark Twain

A banker is a fellow who lends his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

Greg Gibson

It's easier to hire somebody with personality and teach them to be a banker than it is to hire a banker with personality, because they're pretty rare.

John Smith

There's a nurse, a teacher, a banker and a university technician.

Bob Olson

Bankers know that wind loans can be good loans. There just isn't that much knowledge about how to structure them.

John Duffy

Bankers feel pressure to keep up with the Joneses...but you do deals when you can do them.

John Ziegelbauer

Bankers face a wide spectrum of businesses that are fighting for these deposits. Other banks, credit unions, brokerage firms, mutual fund companies and Internet banks are all looking to capture the same depositor dollars.

Ogden Nash

Bankers are just like everyone else only richer.

Linda Gray

We want them to have exposure to females who have a career and a family. We want to let them know that you don't have to choose one or the other.

Ed Asner

I'm not sought after. I never get enough work. It's the history of my career. There just isn't anything to turn down, let me put it that way.

David Horowitz

I often wonder what my life would be like without the use of a library. Throughout my education and career, public and private libraries have been not only the key to much of the knowledge I have acquired, but also have given me a direction within my profession. The best thing about the library is that it is available not only to me, but to everyone. It does not discriminate.

Ben Stiller

I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I realised quite early on that, although I wasn't trying to make a career speciality of it, I was playing slightly asexual, sociopathic intellectuals.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I'm sort of focused on my long-term goal of carving out a career that's for life, rather than being a flash in the pan.

Bear Grylls

I've never really had a TV career. I've been a soldier and a climber.

Audrey Tautou

I'm not inspired by any career because I don't have any expectations.

Antony Sher

The whole of my acting career is a bit of a mystery to me.

Alan Moore

Ideas are bulletproof.

Alan Bennett

We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.

Alan Alda

Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.

Al Ries

Changing the direction of a large company is like trying to turn an aircraft carrier. It takes a mile before anything happens. And if it was a wrong turn, getting back on course takes even longer.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Plain horse sense ought to tell us that anything that makes no change in the man who professes it makes no difference to God, either.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

When God would make His name known to mankind, He could find no better word than "I AM." "I am that I am," says God, "I change not." Everyone and everything else measures from that fixed point.

Robert Bennett

We want them to completely change the way they handle organs. We want stricter testing and we want families and patients to be notified if there is a problem with a donor, so that the family could make the decision, not the doctor.

Tom Harp

We want to totally change the look from a 50-year-old neighborhood to a neighborhood that is state-of-the-art and fully improved with nice front lawns.

Chogyam Trungpa

In the cocoon, there is no idea of light at all, until we experience some longing for openness, some longing for something other than the smell of our own sweat. When we examine that comfortable darkness - look at it, smell it, feel it - we find it is claustrophobic.

Rob Walton

The other thing is this industry has decided it only has one market. Unlike any other industry in the world, unlike film or books or sports even, this industry has decided it has only one market and that's 14 year old boys.

Navtej Sarna

We've also decided to permit relief material being sent by private organizations and international (charities) to Pakistan.

Glenn Matthews

We spoke and decided we didn't need to. We just want to let things settle down.

Luis von Ahn

I have multiple ideas per day, all the time. The vast majority of these are completely idiotic. Usually, I just sit on the idea for several months. And if I have not decided that it's idiotic, then it's... might be a good idea.

M.V. Govindan

We have no problem of funds because we have raised these from various banks. We have now decided to enlist new members. By the time we are ready to open, we would have a membership of more than 10,000 people, each of whom will have paid a fee of Rs.500.

Nick Clooney

We decided that how we react to and treat those fellow mortals, wild and domestic, tells us more about ourselves than, perhaps, some of us want to know.

Christopher Hill

Whether we have a draft that everyone agrees on, or whether it's decided that there should be a recess of some kind, we don't know yet,

Katie Cook

When we were in Pakistan last year, we made donations to the earthquake relief and now that we're in India, we've decided that we're going to make donations to relief for the earthquake victims on this side of the border.

Jim Donovan

Tom was outside during some of it and decided to go back in the house when he was having trouble standing up.

Armando Padilla

We always escape with a victory. But it's just always been tough to go over there.

Julie Vallese

What the rule proposes to do is limit the spread and intensity of a mattress fire, which would give people more time to escape from their homes.

Herb Stratford

We want people to come into this room, into the auditorium, and we want them to escape and forget it's 2006.

Mike Pastore

They don't make good pets. They are extremely intelligent and always have escape on their minds. They want to roam and wander.

Red Cavaney

It is too soon to estimate the extent of fuel supply disruptions, if any. However, even if we are fortunate enough to escape with minimal damage, the shutdowns in preparation for Rita will have some effect,

Juan Morales

It started with peasants, who played their music at the end of the day or week. It was a way for them to escape from work.

Fidel Castro

There will be no escape for those who want to live like parasites at any price, at any cost, outside the law,

Carly Rae Jepsen

Reading serves as a good escape when you're in the middle of doing crazy things.

Ed Gillespie

The senator is trying to escape 20 years of his record in the United States Senate.

Catherine Bell

We usually work 14-hour days, and sometimes 16 to 18 days, which doesn't leave much time for anything else - most Sundays are spent recovering.

John Dickerson

It's just a matter of time now before he leaves the race.

Gene Strusz

It's kind of a sad day when they all leave after 14 days.

Peter Smid

A man would tell her how much (marijuana) to leave in the room,

Johnny Damon

They know it's a business. They know I wasn't the first to leave and I'm not going to be the last.

Rabbi Zell

They took leave of us doing what they loved. They took leave of us traveling.

Linda Barrabee

For ESPN, it means trying to get people to leave another carrier, and the way to do it is with something different. The market is primed for differentiation.

Thomas Hood

For here I leave my second leg, / And the Forty-second Foot.

Sheldon Yourist

They didn't want to leave until the project was done.

Barnett Newman

I know that it is impossible to talk about my work. And since it's impossible for me or anybody else to talk about my work, I feel I might as well talk about it.

Audrey Tautou

It might seem paradoxical given my profession, but I'm not someone who likes to be in the limelight.

Deb Caletti

They never told you that stranger might be someone you knew.

Lorraine Toussaint

I think if I weren't an actress, I might have made a halfway decent attorney! I like the way they think.

John Milton

The other shape, / If shape it might be called that shape had none.

Joe Vinson

The point is, people are getting the most antioxidants from beverages, as opposed to what you might think,

Mike Stackpole

We still thought we might be able to do it.

Kurt Vonnegut

One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the Universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.

Bill Nighy

I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.

Benedict Cumberbatch

[ Sherlock Holmes] has moved from being someone who was sociopathic, work-obsessed and slightly amoral, into being someone who has a certain degree of a private life, which is very, very private, with The Woman, or Irene Adler.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

The possibility is there because I feel it inside. I feel there are a lot of people in politics that are standing still and not doing enough. And there's a vacuum. Therefore, I can move in.

Frank Newport

There are debates, there are ads, and all that stuff so you're going to have movements up and down.

Abdullah Abdullah

We stopped because we didn't want to move into Kabul,

Cecily Brown

I love the trick of painting. You can have the movement within the still thing, but it is completely fixed. And that illusion is constantly exciting.

Chris Bell

When you're trying to move away from a system that is overburdened with loopholes, you don't replace it with a system with still more loopholes.

Alexander McCall Smith

The point of opera is that people are moved by the emotions and music.

Michael Novak

The universe moves in the direction of Liberty.

Harry Shum, Jr.

When it comes to acting, you really have to create movement which in some ways is dancing. And dancing, I feel is very important to act as well. I wouldn't put one over the other.

Elizabeth Jennings

I hate a word like 'pets': it sounds so much Like something with no living of its own.

Kathryn Prescott

When you hear someone say something homophobic, it really ages them. It sounds old-fashioned.

Marney Cox

On the one hand, it sounds like we may be a little weaker going into 2006.

Kevin Taylor

He sounds like a particularly mischievous 14 year old to me. Not too big to be put over his dad's knee, I wager.

Jill Scott

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Tom Sizemore

I think I may be in - potentially - three classics. That sounds like I'm bragging.

Rick Wakeman

I avoid preset sounds wherever possible, and all the sounds I use I have edited.

Ben Howland

He didn't want to go. Sounds just like coach.

Martin Freeman

I think acting is all about the other people. Sounds like a worthy thing to say, but it's true.