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.

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.

Kirk Walters

He's a real vocal guy for us. He's a central part of our defense and our offense.

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,

David Resler

It could be a drag on earnings...something that delays the revival of profits so central to the revival of the economy itself.

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.

Jon Katz

I think the new reality that's converging all this is, you have on the one end this culture of extraordinarily gifted outsiders who have patched together the Internet. And then there's the rest of the world -- business, education and politics -- that suddenly has woken up to the fact that they desperately need the Internet. It's very important. And so they become sort of central while still not being in the mainstream.

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.

Jean Claude

I would say that consumers are not pushing enough,

Sherwood Boehlert

Judd Road was very important in going forward with Consumer Square and The Orchard,

Scott Anderson

Job growth is the main engine for consumer spending.

Kyle Hall

What we wanted to do is solve the issues for the consumers of where their pictures are going.

Wayne Ayers

I think the general message here is that despite the fears about a low savings rate, the consumer continues to hang in there, and that's essentially the only thing that's going to keep the economy on track.

Gerard Kleisterlee

There is a lack of value creation, particularly around consumer electronics,

Gray Davis

There is no easy solution, ... But, if I have to use the power of eminent domain to prevent generators from driving consumers into the dark and utilities into bankruptcy, then that's what I'll do.

Mark Boudreaux

We sympathize with consumers paying high gasoline prices. We are trying to help public-policy makers understand what makes prices high.

Ted Sarandos

I think being a partner with the studios and networks and, more importantly, being a great source for consumers to watch that programming is always going to be a part of our programming mix.

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.

Bernard Baumohl

Katrina has shaken the very foundations of the U.S. economic expansion when it ruined much of America's energy infrastructure, ... While a recession is unlikely, the probability of stagflation has greatly increased with inflation moving higher even as the economy slows.

Zhang Guobao

It also delivers substantial economic and environmental results, alleviating poverty.

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.

Larry Goldstein

Goldstein said. ''There does seem to be some lessons learned. Whether they are economic lessons or political lessons, or some combination of the two, I don't know.

Tomoko Fujii

Good economic figures will surely be euro supportive. The euro-zone economy is expanding faster than expected.

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.

Gunnar Lindstrom

It (hydrogen fuel cells) needs a major breakthrough in technology.

Ricky Craven

If we come into the race with the idea that we have to do everything we can to save fuel, there will be 36 cautions and fuel will be irrelevant,

Robert Mills

I am losing $2,600 a week on fuel that used to go toward my profit,

David Cummings

He has to be seen to be doing something and I think removing the GST on fuel excise, which is a tax on a tax, is a tangible way to show the Government cares.

Richard Baxter

Lay siege to your sins, and starve them out by keeping away the food and fuel which is their maintenance and life.

Veerappa Moily

Fuel conservation is a necessity, and I have to be the first person to set the example.

Willie Nelson

I see this [biodiesel] as a way for the farmer to grow fuel and food and put him back in business again

Katsuaki Watanabe

In the United States people are getting more fuel conscious,

Roger Price

In the whole scheme of things, it's not that big of a deal. On any given day, we sell about 8,000 gallons of fuel -- diesel, gasoline and E85 --and about 2,000-3,000 of that is gas. Of that, about 300 gallons is E85. So, it's a lot to me, but probably not a lot to you.

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.

Tom Crosby

I think we'd better get used to it. I think we're going to see prices roller-coaster like this for a long time.

David Patterson

I think all the prices are crazy. They are just very expensive.

Richard Taylor

If prices got out of whack and stay out of equilibrium for a long time, then we'd want to know why and we'd go and find out why.

Ken Budd

These are not the prices we voted on.

Elmore Lockley

Once again, these prices reflect what is going on in the marketplace -- not just here, but it's a trend nationwide.

Andrew Harrington

Prices have been rarely, if ever, this high. Now is the time to make hay.

Jim Reese

The prices are up because no one has wheat.

Mark Sullivan

Many are wondering how prices could go up so quickly after the hurricane.

Tim Noest

If it doesn't get there, prices will rise again. They may not be able to find the ships.

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.

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.

Lawrence Yun

Obviously, many renters have become homeowners as rates have fallen.

Leon Black

Different industries have different risks and growth rates and volatility.

Bill Gross

It's sort of like a teeter-totter; when interest rates go down, prices go up.

William Beveridge

There is no inherent mechanism in our present system which can with certainty prevent competitive sectional bargaining for wages from setting up a vicious spiral of rising prices under full employment.

Robert Owen

To train and educate the rising generation will at all times be the first object of society, to which every other will be subordinate.

Terence McKenna

This rising global humanism is, in fact, the rising into consciousness of a tribal god similar to the kind of tribal god that functioned in these pre-Hellenic societies.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Genius is a rising stock market.

Les Dawson

The way prices are rising, the good old days are last week.

Paul Krugman

Rising inequality isn’t about who has the knowledge; it’s about who has the power.

Hilaire Belloc

The Reformation has been called in a biting epigram "a rising of the rich against the poor."

Henry Ward Beecher

The diameter of each day is measured by the stretch of thought - not by the rising and setting of the sun.

David Talbot

EFR has incredible leverage to the rising uranium price and its projects have massive potential.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

know that there has to be a spending limit.

William S. Burroughs

If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you've lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.

Wilbur Ross

You cannot just keep borrowing more and more and keep spending more and more without eventually having a day of reckoning.

Beth Smith

I want this to succeed for Tim, because if it succeeds for Tim, it succeeds for us, because we'll be spending more time together.

Pat Toomey

If you don't get spending under control, eventually you're going to have a big tax increase.

Elizabeth Hurley

Spending time outdoors makes you feel great.

William J. H. Boetcker

You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.

Leon Wieseltier

I was not interested in spending 10 years in the culture wars.

Carmen Busquets

I was always into fashion, and used to go on spending sprees when I was a university student in Miami. My father would be furious, but I would always say, 'It was an emergency! I had a party to go to!'