Famous Quotes & Sayings

Howard Davidowitz

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

Tim Duncan

Just like the good, old days, when I used to make bank shots. Get his name for me. I need to consult with him.

Wayne Abernathy

Katrina will be a significant test of how flexible our bankruptcy rules are. Banks have a lot of experience dealing with debtors in difficulty because of natural disasters. The first focus will be on making sure people can meet their immediate financial needs.

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.

Gideon Gono

Guided by the ongoing consultations the Reserve Bank is carrying out with all stakeholders concerned, as well as strong representations by the banking industry, it has become necessary that we suspend indefinitely the introduction of this proposed measure.

Alice White

Going into Chapter 11 is expensive. The feeling is once they get out of the bankruptcy and get some of the costs of the bankruptcy paid, they'll be able to build up their portfolio and make real money.

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.

Josh Stiles

He didn't say enough on the permanent tax cuts and that's why the dollar is higher and (U.S.) bonds are higher.

Amy Cutts

Last Friday's unexpectedly weak employment report caused interest rates on long-term Treasury bonds and, by extension mortgage rates, to fall as investors worried about the health of the U.S. economy.

Akitsugu Bandou

Investors don't feel safer buying bonds as they remain strongly concerned about a rate hike and higher yields. Surging Treasury yields will pressure Japanese yields to rise.

Yasunori Kuroda

Investors are reluctant to buy bonds before the price report and the BOJ meeting. I see a more than 50 percent chance for a policy shift next week.

Tatsuo Ichikawa

Investors aren't sure if they should buy more longer-dated bonds with yields this low.

Jun Fukashiro

Investors are buying bonds as they realize a policy shift is not so easy when the government opposes it. Expectations for a change were too excessive.

Akihiko Yokoyama

Investors should prepare for a change in monetary policy. Hold off buying 10-year bonds as yields are going to grind higher.

Peter Canelo

In the last three years, bonds have done OK, with yields around 6 percent. But the stock market has more than doubled.

Doug Porter

The message that seeped out was that he does think that they've pretty much done enough to bring the economy in for a soft landing, and that really is an ideal world for equities. While it was disguised, it certainly was a very bullish message for both bonds and stocks,

Nikki Giovanni

Kevin Powell is pushing to bring, as he has so brilliantly done before, the voices of his generation: the concerns, the cares, the fears and the fearlessness.

Renato Vercesi

Investors were calmer today, thinking Wednesday's fears over inflation were exaggerated.

Jonathan Ames

A lot of writers, probably because they're sensitive, which makes them want to be writers, have fears about their masculinity, so they overcompensate by having an interest in boxing and tough-guy things.

Alexander Lebed

It's been long since I've lost all fears and concerns. I don't worry, I calculate.

Tim Heekin

It's a quiet day before Easter, and we're waiting for the bunny. You have people not wanting to make moves before a three day weekend, and you have some fears about terrorism -- with Rice speaking, and because this is a religious holiday.

Lon Anderson

There seems to be a good supply of gas. The governor's office sent out a release that there is a one-and-a-half to two-week supply of gas on hand in Virginia, so there is no reason for fears about a shortage of gas or gas lines.

Edil Baisalov

It was feeding instability and insecurity. There were these fears that after March 25 the mob would run the country.

John Donne

As he that fears God fears nothing else, so, he that sees God sees everything else

George Glynos

Oil prices tend to fuel inflationary fears, and as they fuel these fears funds so investors tend to look for an inflation head. In this situation they have looked towards gold as that inflationary head. As oil prices have gone up we have seen an increase in metal prices.

Jeff Sessions

I would suggest we'd better spend our time investigating how a top-secret program such as this, a program fully shared with congressional leaders, was breached and provided to the media and revealed throughout the world.

Russ Diamond

I think that the voters fully understand what's going on here.

Michael Huff

He'll never know, I guess, fully what we go through. But I think he has a lot better understanding.

Donna Brazile

I may not be a trained actor, but I've paid my dues. And I mean that literally. I am a fully dues-paid member of SAG/AFTRA. As a political figure, I've been called a 'card carrying' member of numerous groups that I'm not a member of - and now I'm being called a non-actor when I am literally a card-carrying member of the union for actors.

Andrew Weil

I fully support a national health care program for the U.S.

Tim Wagner

American intends to co-operate fully with the DOJ's investigation.

Jon Huntsman

It struck us very hard and just about put us under, ... We still haven't fully recovered, but we'll make it.

Rachel Sheinkin

They didn't know what to make of it in Melbourne. They loved it, and they made it their own. But they did not fully have a sense of competitive academics.

John Harrison

They promise exorbitantly high rates of return, as much as 400 percent, ... They promise that the initial investment will be returned in full, is fully insured and protected by the 'world's top 100 prime banks'; that it's offered only to the wealthy elite, but 'just for you, we're going to let you participate by giving us some money.'

Kevin Breslin

I think that the groups do get things done around here.

David Sedaris

Underneath my window, there were huge groups of people running in the streets. They tried to overturn a car. So the woman opened her window and tried to throw water on them. So then they threw rocks up and tried to smash her windows. It was very exciting.

Richelle Mead

I stared. "Canadian Satanists? You're sending me to a group of Canadian Satanists?

Reinhold Niebuhr

As racial, economic and national groups, they take for themselves, whatever their power can command.

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

How can you hope to build up a nation by fragmenting its politics into opposing camps? Whatever one group builds, the other will endeavour to destroy.

John Oliver

The British press are a group of unremitting scumbags. And sometimes they use that scumbaggery to good ends, and often not.

John Lennon

I would like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves and I hope we’ve passed the audition.

Troy Diels

A lot of groups come through middle school with high expectations. They'll have to maintain their skills and get better at the same time. People will be gunning for them each time out so they have to come to play. People remember middle school (success) so you have to keep getting better and I think they will.

Jim Sullivan

There were more groups that made records and didn't make it than there were groups that made it. So you can imagine the work that we did.

Oscar Gonzalez

I would think the probability of a move (on interest rates) would be somewhere around the 40 percent range.

John Kessel

Kafka is not interested in documenting the manners and mores of any particular place; he is not interested in probing the psyche of individual characters.

Len Lichtenfeld

I suspect that there will be a significant interest in getting better tests into the mainstream.

Scott Shapiro

I think it's 18 teams that have shown interest.

George Burley

It can have a snowball effect. With the national side doing well there is more interest in the game, which is great.

Lisa Presley

Having kids was the smartest thing I've ever done. They're little sponges who come into the world with a clean, shiny slate and such pureness. I'm interested in having more kids.

Ron Hilliard

He should have a big year. He's been rated by Dennis McCarty as one of the top linemen in the state. Michigan State, Penn State and Rutgers are very interested in Dan.

Dick Miller

I think it's going to go very well. She's an outstanding talent and a lot of interest has been shown.

Robert Baker

I thought we were interested in saving time.

Stacy Pendleton

To get her back is a big lift for us.

Jon Burnham

If not for the strong earnings, I think the market would be a lot weaker than it is. But that's not enough to lift the market out of a trading range. There's just too much uncertainty for markets to move higher.

David Brown

It kind of skipped and hopped, touched down and lifted back up. So there was not really a trail, but you can see where it went.

Luk Boral

It was like a stone lifted off my back.

Chris Gill

It's like 100 pounds has been lifted off our shoulders.

John Kelly

It's a pretty simple rescue. I just lower down the rigging and then lift out the sled.

Bob Hofman

And again, we got a big lift from our bench.

Peter Green

The market lifted on an anticipated resolution of the port issue. But it's a very temporary thing; it's not going to lift us out of any of the nervousness that's been pulling markets lower. It's a one-day love affair.

Andruw Jones

They're a real solid team now, Maybe I'm not lifting enough weights.

Mike Johns

Just to regain that market share we had before will take some time.

Edmund Daukoru

Just rest assured, we are under obligation to the market to keep the market well supplied. We meet as often as it takes to micro-manage the short-term volatility.

Francis Gannon

I think in this market you never know what's going to happen,

Jim Robb

I think the market will not really react to it.

Brett Gallagher

I think the market is just biding its time, and we're going to have these back-and-forth days.

Larry Wachtel

I think the market has done quite well in what is supposed to be the worst month of the year, but at some point you're going to run into an overbought condition,

Howard Skolnik

We're prisons, and we're marketing what we are.

Doug Duncan

We're prepared to say the market has peaked in terms of the numbers of units sold.

Michael Dell

We're number-one in the U.S. in the server market and now we're going after the world,

Russ Jones

Our rates only go up once a year, and that's in June.

John Seabrook

In the nineteen-eighties, rates of obesity started to rise sharply in the U.S. and around the world. By the nineteen-nineties, obesity reached epidemic proportions.

Michael Stipe

The future's ours, and you don't even rate a footnote now

Richard Bernstein

At the rate it's going right now, profitability will accelerate, but at a very, very slow pace, ... much slower than what's implied by valuation in the market.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

I've always held that early marriage is a sure indication of second-rate goods that had to be sold in a hurry." - Martin Harris

Jamie Rappaport

An astonishing success rate of more than 99 percent.

Scott Berry

And as rates go higher, that should go higher, too.

Greg Hymowitz

With rates going higher, I'm staying away from the old-economy stocks.

Chuck Palahniuk

At this rate, we'll never get to the future.

Grant McCasland

Once you win that, you concentrate on winning the regional championship.

Duane Gubler

Singapore probably underscores the need for regional controls.

Timothy Simons

After school, I was planning to jump from regional theater to regional theater.

Joschka Fischer

The situation in Iraq is dangerous but the regional situation is also very complicated and precarious.

Jim McCamant

The IPO window for biotech stocks is closing.

Greg Hymowitz

The fundamentals for technology stocks are very positive.

Michael Holland

Merrill Lynch could go down some more, but I like stocks like that. I like Merck, but they got pounded on Friday,