Famous Quotes & Sayings

Howard Davidowitz

Kmart went into bankruptcy a cadaver and it'll come out of it a cadaver,

Joyce Chapman

I think it is important for youth to grow up giving back to humankind, and West Bank enjoys getting behind the school and supporting them.

Peter Foley

He did everything right. Rado would get a gap on Seth by running low in a turn, but Seth knew better than to drop low with him. He stayed high, where he could ride the bank fastest, and just waited until he could pass him.

Ed Perkins

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

John B. Robinson

Gold is used to a certain extent; but the great bulk of the money in use is not gold but promissory notes, called bank notes - paper money, in short.

Joel Denney

It certainly is signaling there is financial stress on Northwest. It's telling everyone they may now be looking at bankruptcy as a strong option.

Li Ruoyu

It indicates the central bank still wants to keep its control of money and has no intention to get expansive. It is still emphasizing prudence.

Charles White

I think that's a great deal. This is a stock that was a stellar performer last year, has lagged a little bit this year. But, selling off that division just increased their focus on the more growth oriented businesses, and I think Bank of New York, even after the 2 or 3 point move yesterday, still is an extraordinary value at these prices.

Severin Borenstein

I think that's a big issue that a bankruptcy court is going to have to confront. What's the ongoing responsibility of the company and what's the legal liability in the contracts.

Jonathan Safran Foer

I've never particularly liked bankers.

Marty Heires

These are long-term leases and these banks can stay in our stores for 15 years and in some cases even more. We're committed to community bankers and we're committed to what they bring to our stores and their customers. We're their allies.

Alan Blinder

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

Ogden Nash

Bankers are just like everyone else only richer.

Arthur Levitt

The SEC is launching more investigations into more big companies than ever before, ... The list of targets includes plenty of Fortune 500 players, including Bankers Trust, Cendant, Waste Management and W. R. Grace.

Eliot Spitzer

The word 'fraud' will be in some of the documents that are the settlement documents, ... I believe very deeply that at its root what was going on with the analysts and the investment bankers was probably the largest fraud ever committed upon the investing public.

Ben Bernanke

Community banks are generally doing quite well, and I expect that good performance to continue. Neither bankers nor their supervisors should become complacent.

William Leach

There's actually been very little buzz on this one. With the other deals, the bankers were leaking information out on seemingly a daily basis to drive up the price. With this, nothing.

Maximilien Robespierre

When a Banker jumps out of a window, jump after him - that's where the money is.

Drew Gilpin Faust

When I was growing up in Virginia, the Civil War was presented to me as glorious with dramatic courage and military honor. Later, I realized how death was central to the reality. It was at the core of women's lives. It's what they talked about most.

Alan Greenspan

History has demonstrated that implicit in any removal of power from central planners and broadening of market mechanisms -- as would occur under WTO -- is a more general spread of rights to individuals,

Yi Xianrong

It is a clear signal to the property market that the central government has the determination and the means to curb investments and housing prices.

Kemp Ewing

I think that they've just got some talent going to Lenoir-Rhyne from this area. And to be coming from South Central really means a lot to us. I think that with the young coaches teaching these guys and what they're going to teach, you're going to see some more guys walk through these doors and sign and do some things in the future.

Stephen Colbert

I want to thank Comedy Central for picking up the show, but more importantly I want to congratulate Comedy Central for picking up the show,

Freda Craft

Hopefully we can make it to Jackson this year, but we know we have to go through teams like Choctaw Central and Southeast Lauderdale.

Steve Martarano

I don't know what will be in the new regulations package. We gathered information from the public last week from Central Valley anglers in Yuba City and will conduct another open session this week.

Peter Kelly

I don't know of a more central location.

Chris Lehane

He's clearly listening to his consultants. His music wasn't playing. This undermines the central presence of his campaign.

Charles Edwards

I think it's silly. Losing those seats for teams like the Yankees and Angels, they'll lose revenue. They're going to choke themselves. I think Lew Wolff is a good owner, but I don't think closing the upper deck is going to do it for them.

Alec Baldwin

I'm very patriotic. I'm an arch-patriot. When they play 'The Star Spangled Banner,' I get all choked up. I love my country.

Tom Daschle

Congress supported the experiment. It was a huge mistake. Deficits skyrocketed. The national debt quadrupled. High interest rates choked American industries. Unemployment soared.

Ellen Hopkins

It [death] chokes you, gags you, but you have to pretend that you're doing just fine, not trembling with this fear because the end is close.

Gayle Forman

You?' is all I can manage to choke out. 'Always me,' she replies softly, bashfully. 'Who else?

Sathya Baba

See God in every one you meet; see God in every thing you handle. Live together, revere each other, let not the seeds of envy and hate grow and choke the clear stream of Love.

Dan Andria

Connellsville made the big shots and you have to give them credit. When they got us by the throat, they choked us.

Kurt Eichenwald

The myth that people with epilepsy swallow their tongues is very injurious. When I had seizures without my roommates present, I would often wake up with my gums bleeding, my teeth hurting or my jaw aching. Often, well-intentioned people, believing I would choke on my tongue, tried to force open my clenched jaw to put in a hard object.

Brendan Shanahan

For me, you always feel like you're in it right up until the buzzer goes. But ever since I've been a little kid, I've always gotten choked up when the season ended, other than when you win the championship. It's usually in the dressing room when you realize they won't let you play another period.

Joe Donnelly

I talk about it. It's a concern to a lot of people.

Kelly Williams

I always felt his game was ready (for the NBA). I was concerned about the off-the-court issues and mentally.

Craig Patrick

He didn't make the trip because in the third period last night he was having a recurrence of an irregular heartbeat. Obviously, we're concerned about it, so we left him at home.

Michael Cloherty

Greenspan is speaking tonight and it's a matter of some concern that he could surprise people.

Michelle Clayman

There are still concerns that profits will slow considerably, and that will hit stocks. But I think there are a number of stocks that are just oversold at these levels.

Scott Matthews

Here at the Green Design Initiative, we're concerned that most will go to landfills,

J. Nichols

hard-working, self-educated and nurturing man. A concerned and a devoted father.

Lucinda Chan

Gold tends to be inflation related, and there's concern about the specter of rising costs now.

David Cole

I think it's a very excellent move that Jerry will be joining GM's board. My only concern is that he may have had more influence from the outside than he will from the inside.

Rasoul Wilson

He's a great quarterback, and we can't stop him. We were out to contain him.

Kevin Davis

He's a great player. He can be in the mid-20s and you think you've done a great job on him. He's just so smooth around the basket. I thought we had enough guys come through on the back side and give him enough trouble all night that eventually it wears on him. You're not going to stop him. You just hope you can contain him.

Kyler Hall

He's definitely a talent. He's an exciting player. If you don't contain him, he can definitely hurt you.

Kathy Jacobitz

I think it's because there are so many products that contain acetaminophen.

Enrique Pena Nieto

There is no evidence that terrorists use Mexico to cross into the United States. There have been comments to that regard, but not one of those statements has contained hard evidence.

Dondi McGowan

Patrick is a key. You can't stop that kid, but if we can contain him, then I think we'll be in pretty good shape. He's a 6-5 guard. He does everything. He's impressive.

Dana Rohrabacher

In times of emergency, it is responsible to increase the power of our government, yet we recognize that these powers should contain sunset provisions.

Porter Casey

In our defense, he's got contain a majority of the time. He hasn't missed many assignments.

Jeremy Leaman

It has yet to recover from the catastrophic slump of 1990 and 1991 or to reach the level of output of 1988, ... In 1998 east Germany contained 18 percent of the working population but produced only 9 percent of Gross National Product, only 6 percent of industrial production and supplied only 3 percent of the country's exports.

Steve Schmidt

Kerry's economic policies would raise taxes on minority small-business owners, whose numbers are steadily increasing as a result of the President's pro-growth policies. Under President Bush's leadership, a majority of minority families are homeowners for the first time in history.

Ken Robinson

You create your life, and you can recreate it, too. In times of economic downturn and uncertainty, it's more important than ever to look deep inside yourself to fathom the sort of life you really want to lead and the talents and passions that can make that possible.

Zhu Rongji

Lack of water resources is a serious limitation on the economic and social development of our country,

Robin Urbanski

Right now, the air-to-ground solution is much more economical to us.

Stephen Gallagher

Investors maintain a healthy economic growth outlook, but now with lower inflation and interest rate risks.

Jean Johnson

If you look at statistics about their economic prospects, it's not really as promising. Yet personally, they are optimistic.

Jon Nadler

In the gold trading pits, economic uncertainties are taking a back seat to uncertainties of a different nature these days.

Phyllis Martin

In Greenville, we really are studying the unmet needs of women, whether economic needs, educational, physical or emotional.

Wilson Washington

In a world littered with economic instability and job insecurities, why must we make THIS election about race... Has it not always been about that???

Andrew Douglas

It is going to change, quite dramatically, the way European markets work.

Goran Persson

The European Union sticks to the Kyoto Protocol and (will) go for a ratification process.

Mel Gibson

It's set before the Conquest, so there are no European faces, and we are using mostly indigenous people and actors from Mexico City,

Jeremy Corbyn

Taken slightly historically, the turning point in the E.U. was actually the Single European Act, the Thatcher/Maastricht-era stuff, which was turning the E.U. into very much a market system.

Kofi Annan

At this stage the European Union is not involved,

Philip Tod

The likelihood is that we will have to reintegrate Sweden into the European (testing) regime.

Philip Tod

The likelihood is that we will have to reintegrate Sweden into the European regime.

Jason Winston George

American television tends to move faster than European or U.K. television.

Brian Shea

For many of the European insurers, Katrina will likely push the full-year 2005 (earnings) to an above-average year with respect to large losses.

Barack Obama

I also think the media's presence simply raised the question: If the media could get to these places, why couldn't the federal government?

Vicki Arroyo

It is going to be a piecemeal approach, people are not going to know what their regulatory commitments are from one state to another. And you are then going to have different product standards in different states. It just doesn't make sense. We need a federal policy and that is what we are trying to promote.

Roy Wilson

I think we have some lessons to learn from the past week, realizing the federal government is not going to come to our rescue in the first 72 hours,

Graham Fraser

It is madness that the federal government is still spending millions on teaching middle-aged bureaucrats how to pass language tests rather than sending young, enthusiastic recruits to the public service to work in another language and culture.

Adam Kidan

I have cooperated fully with the federal investigation for the past three years because I have nothing to hide.

Eric Lamoureux

Other states rely much more heavily on their state government and the federal government to come in and manage the support. In California, emergencies are managed on the local level.

Jessica Thill

Right now our two U.S. Senators and our U.S. Congressman are all over the place in terms of what they're thinking and how they're voting on this issue. So, I would really like to see our Federal Government representation get on the same page.

James Frederick

Our overall goal is to see the federal government step up to the plate.

Katsuhiko Kodama

Investors want to see the U.S. stock market's reaction to whatever the Federal Reserve says, which might set the tone for global high-techs for a while.

Tara Lemmey

I think that privacy is sort of the nature of your identity, and how you transfer your identity is a very important global issue.

Bill Gates

It has been a great year for global health to get more visibility. The more people know about it, the more they want to act.

Igor Luksic

Regardless of our ambitions to become part of the E.U., we have to keep in mind that Turkey is also a very strong voice that can represent the needs of our region in wider terms in global platforms.

Joanne Woodward

I'm upset when I see that people don't seem to observe what's happening with the environment, what's happening in terms of global warming.

Kofi Annan

immediate and exceptional escalation of the global relief effort.

David Robinson

The impact is presumably larger than the Asians' on global interest rates.

Raymond Martin

A lot was achieved, including the finalization of a protocol setting out global standards for the provision and hygiene of public toilets.

Raymond Martin

A lot was achieved, including the finalisation of a protocol setting out global standards for the provision and hygiene of public toilets.

James Hansen

Global warming isn't a prediction. It is happening.

Bryan Whitman

I don't have anything to suggest that is accurate. I have no indication that there are any unaccounted for personnel.

Wade Pogany

I don't have any indication that's happening. It is possible, sure. Any school could do that.

Jerry Klein

I don't have any indication at all, really, one way or the other.

Oliver Purnell

We still have every indication that James Mays will be returning this summer.

Brian Billick

They put him in a cast, so that accelerates it. That's not an indication that it's any more serious.

Gina Uccelli

They have a decision? When we left, they said they would let us know verbally. They really didn't give us any indication it would be this soon.

Herb Kelleher

There was no indication that the runway was wet and they have no indications of any problems at all with the plane,

Margaret Gallardo

There was no indication that anything was wrong.

Noriaki Ichikawa

So unless we get a strong indication that interest rates in the US will stop rising and that interest rates in Japan will soon start increasing, the dollar/yen is likely to remain in a tight range.

Will Rogers

Invest in inflation. It is the only thing going up.

Richard Yamarone

Inflation pressures are rising, but at a subdued pace.

Glenn Hubbard

Inflation pressures are quite modest in the United States. I don't think inflation will be a problem this year, or next year, even with the rate cuts.

Leonard Kaplan

Inflation is screaming. All you have to do is look at your life and what it costs.

Robert Parry

It's risky just to sit back and wait for an upward trend in inflation to show up before we do something,

Anirvan Banerji

There will be a time when inflation will turn around.

Hiroshi Arano

Worldwide, inflation is going to be the big story next year. For Japan, that's going to be a big positive.

Bruce Alston

We're seeing a tickling of inflation in the pipeline but it's not going to be passed on to the consumer.

Glenn Miller

There's no question that inflation has occurred, and $75 million is not the same today as it was then. That said, from where we sit, what's past is past.

Steve Trimper

He's got a strong arm. It was a game-saving throw right there.

Larry Taddeo

He's got a strong arm. I think he'll get some looks.

Lance Armstrong

I think we have fielded our strongest team ever with this formation,

Brian Urlacher

He doesn't look any different to me. He was as strong as ever.

Rob Thomas

There weren’t many people in this world who would let you be vulnerable and still believe you were strong.

Richard P. Feynman

Our freedom to doubt was born out of a struggle against authority in the early days of science. It was a very deep and strong struggle: permit us to question - to doubt - to not be sure. I think that it is important that we do not forget this struggle and thus perhaps lose what we have gained.

Richard John Neuhaus

My hope that the Church will emerge as a strong leader in society is just that a hope. What I described in The Catholic Moment is not a prophecy but the outline of a possibility. There are no guarantees that my hopes expressed in The Catholic Moment will ever be realised.

Richard Dawkins

The story of Doubting Thomas is told, not so that we shall admire Thomas, but so that we can admire the other apostles in comparison. Thomas demanded evidence … The other apostles, whose faith was so strong that they did not need evidence, are held to us as worthy of imitation.

Roz Savage

I'm not claiming to be anything out of the ordinary. I am not especially big or strong or brave or intrepid.