Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ed Perkins

Greed on the part of banks is never surprising. Fortunately, not all the cards are doing it.

Yoji Takeda

It gives the impression Koizumi wanted someone who has political clout and who can support his structural reforms. Merging or privatizing government-affiliated banks will be positive for commercial lenders and brokerages because it will mean more business for them.

Luis Gutierrez

Our bill ensures that national banks will be bound by state consumer protection laws, including predatory mortgage lending statutes.

Steve Jones

Retailers, as well as banks and restaurants, are constantly refreshing their stores so that they look new and exciting.

Chris Hoofnagle

Retailers and banks are trying to pass a law that's much weaker.

Michael Joynson

Retail banks are the best way to play the improving consumer environment, and investment banks have been performing well on the back of a strong market.

Boris Schlossberg

Reserve diversification by central banks has been a key driver of dollar weakness this year.

Zeng Jun

Remember, interest paid to banks only comes back to you in the form of a billing receipt. Nothing else...

Karen Rugen

Our lead banks support the plan and we believe the plan is in the best interest of our other lenders, so we expect to get all the approvals we need.

Andy Irvine

He (McKie) is not going to wave a magic wand and find a loose-head prop that's going to demolish the All Blacks or pull out a winger that will put Rokocoko to shame. That's not his role. There is no quick fix,

Susan Howell

In order to get large numbers of blacks back into New Orleans would require huge amounts of money.

James Williams

At Boca Raton, when I got down there, they didn't segregate us - until they saw some other blacks - then they put the blacks in the rooms together.

Russell Simmons

These blacks here today see the poverty and ignorance that is keeping us at a certain place. They know where the forces are, and they will come together and force our government to respond to the poverty and ignorance that's rampant in our country.

George Clooney

This group of people gave Hattie McDaniel an Oscar in 1939 when blacks were still sitting in the back of theatres.

Bruce Levine

There are a lot of revelations in this book. The proposals discussed here provided an early glimmering of how the white South would treat blacks for the next century.

Ed Garvey

Blacks were systematically targeted to keep them off the voting roles. I think that we're a long way from saying the vote is protected by the federal government.

Barry White

Blacks own so little of the music business it's pathetic. But I see that changing soon. Black artists, black businessmen and women will unite.

Merle Black

Blacks have been migrating into the South in the last decade or so. There are more jobs here. After the 60's, and civil rights, this is where the job growth has been. Because of the lack of unionization, industries have moved back to the South.

Robin Hobb

I would say that many of the characters in my stories do not live in true poverty - they are not out on the street; they are not wondering if there will be anything to eat in the next week. They are people who are at the lower echelons of the economic strata.

John Searles

I take stuff from real life and try to make a character out of it. And I try to live the world of the characters a little bit.

Gillian Anderson

I also respond very strongly to characters I have not done before ... something I can really sink my teeth into, and what's scary, and what terrifies me, because that's where I need to go.

Gale Anne Hurd

I've always been a fan of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror. I like working with larger-than-life characters in fascinating worlds - places where the rules are different.

Sir Woodward

We are going to need big characters out there who can dig deep and show real fight and courage. Gareth is just such a character.

Sue Miller

I think the plasticity of the novel is its greatest challenge. There are no rules; there is no necessary form. You can know what you want it to be, or do, and still not know how to write it. There are endless possibilities, infinite choices. What voice should it be in? What events to start with? What characters will be part of it?

Joel Edgerton

I think the great thing about characters is the ways that they can be surprising. I mean, sometimes you think you've got a lock on a personality, even just in life, and then they'll shock you by their behavior.

Marc Guggenheim

I think it's very hard to talk about these characters in a closed-ended, sort of non-sequel way, especially characters like The Flash and Green Lantern, which have such rich, long histories.

Don Mischer

It had been kind of ignored before that. Disney would do halftime with characters dancing on the field, that kind of stuff. It's become much more intense over the years.

Patrick Barkey

I think it masks the state of the economy and understates the degree to which the job picture has worsened.

Mark Frauenfelder

I actually studied engineering in school - I have a degree in mechanical engineering. But, when I got out of school, instead of going to work as an engineer, I was in a band.

Douglas Kirkland

I always considered, with every shoot, I was on trial; every time I pick up my camera and start out on the relationship, I am at degree zero. There is no coasting.

Phil Dow

I think the main impact of the election has been a degree of uncertainty. Once we know who the president will be it will be very much like Y2K -- it will come and go. You have to focus on sales and earnings, and those have been pretty robust.

Hugh McColl

To date, despite our many successes in individual businesses, we have not made the degree of progress we would like toward realizing that potential, ... We've assembled the right parts, but after years of additions, our resulting structure is neither as efficient nor as effective as it needs to be." ()

Terry Robinson

It got down to about 26 degrees here around 5:45 in the morning. I know there's some damage.

Ted Brennan

It got so hot those few weeks, I know it easily got to 120 degrees in there. The wine was literally cooked.

William Shatner

I had a major in business, and I graduated with a business degree, but I was perhaps the worst student to graduate from that program.

Robert Ringer

The results you produce in life are inversely proportional to the degree to which you are intimidated.

Steve Wammer

Katie had a tremendous freshman season. She's a very good hitter and has a lot of potential.

Jake Grove

I think it's a great opportunity for us. Obviously last year was disappointing, and this year we have a chance, a fresh slate to come out on national TV - everybody's going to be watching - and show people what we're all about.

Dick Booth

He didn't surprise me. He's quite a guy. He was fresh because he didn't jump in the long jump (Saturday). I think he will end up being special.

John Marhefka

He is one of our top scorers this season, but he still has a long way, like all freshmen do, to understand our system and his role.

John Danowski

Guys are playing their role, more people are playing then ever, we're playing more freshmen and those guys are stepping up. All things are pointing in the right direction.

Brad Buckman

He's a tremendous athlete. Just for being a freshman he's got a huge upside. And he's aggressive. He can rebound the ball. He is going to be good, man, he's going to be real good.

E. O. Wilson

Whatever manager we're playing for, whether it be Pete or Lloyd, we come out with the same goal to win games. We're not looking for a fresh start, we're looking to get back on track.

Suzanne Fox

I think we've got games we can learn from, especially with seven new players and nine of our 15 being freshman or sophomores.

I. Stone

We made it so freshmen and sophomores had teams,

Vivica A. Fox

Going from drama to just straight-up comedy with Tommy Davidson and Jamie Foxx - what a blast.

Pam Borton

I thought she was playing scared and tentative. Jamie wasn't getting the job done.

Anthony Bourdain

I think (Travel Channel) knows it's not getting Jamie Oliver or Rachel Ray when they throw their lot in with me.

Tony Raines

I don't know what Jamie was thinking or doing,

Diana Gabaldon

That's what marriage is good for; it makes a sacrament out of things ye'd otherwise have to confess. Jamie Fraser

Jim Jefferies

Myself and Jamie Moffat did not agree on everything but he always knew I had the experience.

Ellie Goulding

I used to make my manager Jamie not tell me where I was going to be the next day, because I was so afraid of flying and of anything. But now I love flying, I love working hard, I love being around the world.

Grant Hill

It wasn't popular for college athletics to embrace Title IX.

Will Wright

I think the primary thing that's made the Sims popular is that they're accessible,

Vance Havner

Popularity has slain more prophets of God than persecution ever did.

Jena Malone

If you took Lydia out of 'Pride and Prejudice' and put her into today, she'd be one of the popular girls,

Richard Lewis

You can't really find somebody that has been so prolific, so 'on the scene,' so popular and cutting-edge as Carlin, ... He is the Rolling Stones of stand-up.

Rep. Baxley

I want to tell you something about accountability: It's hard. It hurts. If you're going to do the right thing, it's not always going to be the popular thing.

Kathleen Hanna

Popularity is totally overrated.

Shigeki Maruyama

The LPGA is very popular in Japan, ... She will be a big star.

Karen Bell

It's just not as popular as is used to be.

Richard Carroll

Chimps are portrayed as the super-ape and gorillas are the big brutes in the forest.

Don Cornelius

Blacks on prime-time TV are only portrayed as comedians - and often in no better a light than 'Amos & Andy.'

Prince Royce

I wouldn't say I'm changing myself to find a new audience. It's about growing, trying new things. There's a whole other world out there that doesn't know who Prince Royce is.

Robin McKinley

Because she was a princess she had a pegasus.

Zayn Malik

Just because you don't have a prince, doesn't mean your not a princess.

Zayn Malik

Just because your prince hasn't come doesn't mean you're not a princess.

William Goldman

You are trying to kidnap what I have rightfully stolen, and I think it quite ungentlemanly.

William Goldman

Westley: Hear this now: I will always come for you. Buttercup: But how can you be sure? Westley: This is true love-you think this happens every day? Westley: I told you I would always come for you. Why didn't you wait for me? Buttercup: Well...you were dead. Westley: Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while. Buttercup: i will never doubt again. Westley: There will never be a need.

Rick Riordan

The Princess Andromeda?" "Went ka-boom.

William Hazlitt

The Princess Borghese, Bonaparte's sister, who was no saint, sat to Canova as a reclining Venus, and being asked if she did not feel a little uncomfortable, replied, "No. There was a fire in the room."

Mandy Moore

Rapunzel is a bit more relatable than the other princesses, especially because she doesn't even know that she's a princess until the very end of the movie. I like to think of her as the bohemian Disney princess. She's barefoot and living in a tower. She paints and reads... She's a Renaissance woman.

Woody Allen

My relationship with death remains the same - I'm strongly against it.

Paul Wolfowitz

The cost of the high-cost economy remains too high.

Neal A. Maxwell

The "new" in us is bound to notice the "old" that remains.

Kelly Clarkson

Everything changes, but beauty remains.

Joyce Carol Oates

You don't have to understand why anything that has happened nor do you even have to understand what it is that has happened. You have only to live with the remains.

George Davis

They're kind of saying that it's going to be OK, but that remains to be seen,

Theodore Dreiser

The true meaning of money yet remains to be popularly explained and comprehended.

Azzedine Alaia

'Vogue' remains while its fashion editors come and go.

Samuel Beckett

God is a witness that cannot be sworn.

Deon Santisteven

We did not actually get to witness the reunion.

Rajneesh

Learn to become more of a witness, create more watchfulness. Let each act, each thought, be seen.

George Herbert

Life without a friend is death without a witnesse. [Life without a friend is death without a witness.]