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.

Alan Blinder

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

Michael Mayo

The performance of the Bank of New York's retail bank has lagged, the stock value of pure-plays has increased, and Bank of New York stock has lagged. We sense that the time is right for this move.

Michael Jackson

the proceedings have been a nightmare for my family

Eminem

The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family.

Eminem

I did not know that I would grow to be my mothers evil seed and do these evil deeds.

Joe DiMaggio

A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues.

Dan Sullivan

It's a job. When we land, when we see the family and everybody, that's the time for reflection. That's when it will hit us.

Cristela Alonzo

Looking back, I remember my family laughing a lot. We were never the kind of people that dwelled on hard times. My family laughs when things are tough. Growing up like that, I got used to making jokes about things that were difficult. So when I started doing stand-up, that's what I went towards.

Eugene Kennedy

Catholicism actually resembles a family that survives because even as it aspires to holiness, it understands and can live with sin and imperfection.

Pat Conroy

Love came in wounded and frantic ways to my dismaying family.

Teri Hatcher

I know what it's like to have a young child at the weekend and feel like there is nothing to see in the movie theatre. Family is so important.

Nick Zito

Sometimes running a rabbit works, sometimes it backfires. People have been using rabbits for hundreds of years. The rabbit has to be a good horse because they might not necessarily be able to do the job.

Adam Dunn

I've been seeing lefthanders good all year. I know my numbers stink. I think I've been overly aggressive, trying to pull everything. I'm not doing anything different -- just hitting it more.

Jason Craft

I've been saying all year long we've got some good shooters on the team and they're going to keep us in the game. We just did a good job of staying with what we do and executing.

Jason Craft

I've been saying all year long ù we've got some good shooters on the team and they're going to keep us in the game. We just did a good job of staying with what we do and executing.

David Lewis

I've been referring to it as a three-ring circus, but in a good way.

Sherry Ragan

I've been there 20 years and (morale) is as good now as it's ever been.

Preston Clark

I've been taking good at-bats lately. I've been a lot more confident.

Dan Hughes

I've been with a lot of teams, some successful and some not as successful in their records and by and large, this team competed all year. We grew in ways I hope will be helpful in 2006. We have a lot of work to do in the off-season, but we have a good beginning.

Matt McCoy

I've been waiting for 17 weeks. I've had a lot of time to watch the guys and see how they play, and hopefully I can go out there and use what I've learned. ... It's been a little frustrating, but it's also been a good learning experience." ()

Thomas Cole

If the imagination is shackled, and nothing is described but what we see, seldom will anything truly great be produced either in Painting or Poetry

Alan Greenspan

It's a bubble. It has to have intrinsic value. You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven't been able to do it. Maybe somebody else can.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

They say that none of us exists, except in the imagination of his fellows, other than as an intangible, invisible mentality.

Bill Hicks

How many people disapprove of the job the Conservatives are doing? Seventy percent. Of those same people, how many will vote for them again? ...Seventy percent. What the f-k? Where did they take this poll, at an S&M parlor?

Barack Obama

Every single thing I`ve done, from the Affordable Care Act to pushing to raise the minimum wage, to making sure that young people are able to go to college and get good job training, to what we`re pushing now in terms of sick paid leave,everything I do has been focused on how do we make sure the middle class is getting a fair deal.

E. L. James

Once you're in charge of your job, your house, your children, getting the food on the table, doing all of this, all of the time, it'd be nice for someone else to be in charge for a bit maybe.

E. L. Konigsburg

Every job in the world has some built-in boredom. No man can stay excited about something every minute he is doing it. Routine is as necessary to life as water is to beer; it is the base that holds the flavors and spices together.

E. M. Forster

As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take this examination system seriously. If another ladder to employment was contrived, much so-called education would disappear, and no one would be a penny the stupider.

Drew Carey

Even when people are rich and successful on TV shows, there's always some trouble - you have to poke holes in them, throw them out of a job, put a pie in the face.

Drew Carey

In any other job, they're truck drivers. In show-biz, they're Transportation Captains.

Drew Carey

I remember when I took a temp job... so I got a job at a department store. Something temporary to put on my resume, my parents said. Yeah... till I die!

Drew Barrymore

I think a any person who has a high profile job or who travels all the time or who has a lot of stress associated with their job can be difficult to be in a relationship with.

Kim Ens

This isn't something where we want to scare people at all.

Donna Jones

This is the dirtiest, scariest thing I've ever seen. When it comes to politics in this city, people don't play fair.

Ken Davis

This is Philadelphia, people are used to (politicians) getting indicted,

Jeanna Mastrodicasa

This is part of the risk of running, that people will say things about you.

Paul Costello

The whole idea that started this program was to get people out of harm's way.

Gary Caille

The whole idea is that the vehicle doesn't need to survive an attack, but the people do.

Hilary Clinton

The United States military, because of people like you, can do things for a troubled world that no one else can do. And I am profoundly grateful,

Curtis Hanson

This girl, I can't tell you how much ... well, just how proud I am of her. She is going to surprise so many people with this.

Harvey Houtkin

That's where all the people who are day trading, or supposedly day trading, are getting raped or killed,

Bob Dylan

Come you masters of war You that build all the guns You that build the death planes You that build the big bombs You that hide behind walls You that hide behind desks I just want you to know I can see through your masks.

Jodi Picoult

Words, for all they were flimsy and invisible, had great strength. They could be fortified as a castle wall and sharp as a foil. They could bite, slap, shock, wound. But unlike deeds, words couldn't really help you. No promise ever rescued a person; it was the carrying-through of it that brought about salvation.

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

My advisers built a wall between myself and my people. I didn't realize what was happening. When I woke up, I had lost my people.

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

Those who ran away are now outside the distant perimeter wall of the airport. Now they're outside the wall and the heroic Republican Guard is now in control of the whole area of Saddam International Airport. So where are those villainous louts, those mercenaries?

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

We are determined to defeat them and destroy them on the walls of our capital, as we are determined to destroy their miserable armies in every Muslim spot.

Minoru Yamasaki

If you have white walls, human beings look better in a room than if you have red walls.

Mike Huckabee

People who are tired of K Street corruption and Wall Street greed are ready for Main Street Values.

Pearl S. Buck

An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls-even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls-without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell.

Paula McLain

Ernest once told me that the word paradise was a Persian words that meant walled garden. I knew then that he understood how necessary the promises we made to each other were to our happiness. You couldn't have real freedom unless you knew were the walls were and tended to them. We could lean on the walls because they existed; they existed because we leaned on them.

Abraham Lincoln

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

S. I. Hayakawa

If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.

Morris Chestnut

I'm an R&B and Hip-Hop type guy. When I work out, which I do at least four or five times a week, I love to get the latest Hip-Hop because it really pumps me up and inspires me to get that workout on.

Donald Trump

I always look at it that I work with my employees as opposed to them working for me.

Antony Gormley

I just want my work to be part of the elemental world.

Marc Sieving

We will go back to work and try to get better.