Famous Quotes & Sayings

Warren Stephens

We don't think of ourselves as a regional investment bank. We think of ourselves as merchant bankers with clients all over the country.

Rory Stewart

The politicians think the journalists have power, the journalists think bankers have power, bankers think lawyers have power. The truth is, nobody has power.

Marcus Samuelsson

Harlem is not a playground for rich bankers and consultants. It's got students of all colors. It's got old people who keep history and tell tall tales.

Matthew Quick

I'm from a family of bankers and businessmen, and here I am, the artist, the black sheep.

Diana Yates

M&A is not going to be enough to carry the day for investment bankers as far as earnings go.

Tony Hughes

The practice of central bankers wearing their hearts on their sleeves is disingenuous or damaging to economic prospects.

Fred Green

We are delighted to officially enter three dynamic Florida markets through the acquisition of First Florida. First Florida has a team of talented bankers and investment experts who are empowered to deliver financial solutions and make local decisions that best suit their customers' needs. Through our partnership with First Florida, we can increase the resources of the local bank so they can offer even more robust products and services to both commercial and retail consumers in these rapidly growing markets.

Abner Kurtin

We can only hope that the Goldman Sachs investment bankers who are advising the board are providing you with the same advice. Why should a company's shareholders have to run a proxy contest to convince its board to do the right thing?

Ben Bernanke

If bankers become overly conservative in response to past lending mistakes - or if examiners force such behavior - it will hurt bankers' own long-term interests and the economy in general.

Tyra Banks

I wish I was harder; I wish I didn't care so much about being the nice girl all the time because a lot of the time people can take kindness for weakness, so I wish I had a little bit more 'oomph' in me.

Yann Tiersen

In France the music schools are a bit old fashioned. I was more excited about doing my own stuff or to play with my friend in my band, than studying the piano.

Imelda May

I'm not saying that women shouldn't pursue careers, but if it is going to be equal in the workplace, it should certainly pan out to be a little bit more equal in the home, too.

Imelda May

Music rules a lot of my life - I was bitten by the bug young.

Iggy Azalea

I've been a little bit Las Vegas and casino-obsessed. So, I love some trashy glamour... and I think nothing's trashier or more glamorous than a bit of a sheer number!

Ice T

I think that men need to have a little bit of manism. You have feminism. I don't have a problem with that.

Ian Mckellen

Gandalf the Grey was always the guy I prefer. Gandalf the White was driven to do a particular job, whereas Gandalf the Grey is a bit more humane.

Ian Mckellen

Doing some of the 'Lord Of The Rings' press junkets got a bit claustrophobic.

Ian Mckellen

It's an interesting but useless bit of information that every single character in 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' wears a wig, and many of them wears a prosthetic - false ears, feet, hands. In my case, nose.

Gaines Adams

I feel like by me putting on a couple more pounds will help my game tremendously. Putting on 10-15 pounds will help me stop the run better and be a more dominant pass rusher.

Yo-Yo Ma

I think all musicians have at one time or another experienced one physical problem or another. I have had tendinitis a couple of times, so I try to be really careful. It takes patience and persistence to overcome injury.

Elle Fanning

When I do a movie, that's just a couple months out of my year and out of my life. All the other months I'm just at home, running around doing errands with my mom and going to sleepovers. I feel like I have that side of my life, and then I also do the films - which is just sort of a plus.

Boris Boehm

The overall performance of the market in the last couple of days has been impressive. Investors are locking in profits.

Bryan Cogman

The pressure used to wear on me. I was on Twitter a couple years ago, and I couldn't handle it all that well. Don't get me wrong, because 90% of the feedback you get is fantastic.

Carl Reiner

I was a Teletype operator in the army, so that's where I learned to type. One day, I went downstairs to see if I could still type - I hadn't done it for four or five years after the war. So I typed out a page and I showed it to my wife and she said, "Where did you get this?" I said I wrote it. "You wrote this?" It was something very funny. I went and wrote another page, another couple of pages, and by the time I was finished I had 13 little short stories, humorous short stories.

Bill Bryson

You can always tell a Midwestern couple in Europe because they will be standing on a traffic island in the middle of a busy intersection looking at a windblown map and arguing over which way is west. European cities, with their wandering streets and undisciplined alleys, drive Midwesterners practically insane.

Bette Davis

If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.

Ashton Kutcher

I have someone that cooks for me... that's the best thing ever. I just want to show up and I want my house to be like a hotel... so I want to have a couple of options... I like to have a couple of options.

Yolanda Adams

People love gospel music. It's calming. It's soothing. It gets right to the point of whatever you're dealing with.

Tina Turner

People think my life has been tough, but I think has been a wonderful journey. The older you get, the more you realise it's not what happens, but how you deal with it.

Tim Tebow

Before a game, you know, I can take off my helmet, run over there and spend a few moments with someone who is dealing with so much more than I've ever had to deal with and to love on them and care about them and in front of thousands and thousands of people, you know, let them know that they're more important than all of this.

Gilbert Hernandez

I happen to think Latinas, Latin women, are the most beautiful women in the world. So that's what I'm going to draw. I love women from all cultures, of course, but if I was going to deal with any of them, that would be No. 1 for me.

Gil Gerard

It's more fun having him as everyman in the 25th Century. It is better to concentrate on what this planet will be like 500 years from now, and not be dealing with little aliens in space and all that related stuff.

Donald Trump

You learn their honesty, you learn their competitiveness. You learn a lot about a person. It's not that they have to sink the putt and there's a great deal of talent involved - but you do learn about how competitive a person is on the golf course, and frankly, how honest.

William Kent Krueger

Write because you love the work, not because of what might come from it. The journey is the purpose. Very Zen-like, I know, but honest to God it's the truth. And I have never had to deal with writer's block. Knock on wood.

Vivek Wadhwa

The most valuable lesson I learned in dealing with the ups and downs was to invest in my employees - to do all I could for them when the times were good.

Yehuda Berg

If we can remain present and deal with the moment in front of us, no matter what our battle, then if we lose, we'll know that ultimately we weren't supposed to win that battle in the first place.

Carl Sagan

Who will speak for Planet Earth?

Nick Vitucci

That was great. Our fans have such great enthusiasm. They're the sixth man on the ice for us. It's an intimidation factor.

Erin Delaney

We have a lot of inexperienced players who have really never played the game. They were very enthusiastic about having a junior varsity team.

David Esquer

We've gotta be able to take that enthusiasm and excitement to other places, too. ... When your focus generates to another level, you say, OK, we need to harness that wherever we are.

Jerry Woods

We're very pleased with the turnout, the enthusiasm (of the attendees) and the total ambiance of the evening.

Ron Somers

U.S. industry has never been more enthusiastic about investing in India.

Ken Jennings

Most of them (the offers) were 'Where's the check?', whereas John's venture was very well funded and he just wanted me on board... He did a pretty good sales job. His enthusiasm was contagious.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Lindsey Jacobellis

I was having fun. I wanted to share my enthusiasm with the crowd. Stuff happens. It's just a race.

Virginia Postrel

A standard 'well woman' checkup can last as little as 10 minutes, hardly time for any in-depth discussions.

S. Truett Cathy

Why would I retire from something I enjoy doing? I can hardly wait to get here.

Chris Burke

I was hardly the hero tonight. Roy was great.

Seth Meyers

I'm a terrible grocery shopper. I hardly ever do it. And if I do, there's never more than three things in the bag.

Arthur Conan

I hardly looked at his face. His knees were what I wished to see.

George Soros

I hardly knew the man's name, ... He really invented me. He needed me for his political purposes, so I'm a figment of his imagination.

Martha Stewart

I hardly ever go there anymore. I don't miss it.

Rep. Lawlor

Today is a milestone, but it's hardly the end of the story. One way or another we're going to be living the rowland scandal for the foreseeable future.

David Beckham

I think it is better for the team to have a regular penalty-taker rather than me who hardly ever takes them for Real,

Jim Young

When it makes sense for my shareholders, when it makes sense for my customers, we're willing to put the investment in,

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Postwar U.S. was the world's leader in science and technology. The investment in science research was staggering.

Matthew Lloyd

For most people, it represents a stable, solid investment in choppy waters.

Judy Genshaft

I would say that the Legislature and the people of Tampa made a very savvy investment 50 years ago.

Joseph Lisanti

What is a dividend but your payment as an owner of the company? If you don't get that, then the only way you can profit from your investment is to sell all of it or part of it.

Todd Pratt

He has been great, ... This is what the organization made that investment for.

Nathaniel Smith

I'd like see the the party give strong arguments for more investment in post-secondary education. What's a better place to do it than in Halifax, where there are so many students?

Diane Watson

Social Security is a family insurance program, not an investment scheme.

Daymond John

I consider each business investment based on concept and revenue.

Mario Zawadzki

The political situation here doesn't help, but worldwide markets are falling.

Rob Enderle

The overseas market isn't saturated like the U.S..

Chris Walker

The overall market is down a tad anyway,

Michael Carty

The path of least resistance for this market is up right now.

Sheryl Kingstone

The $500,000 offer is a very tactical marketing move.

Peter Fontaine

We have to wait and see how this storm develops, ... We don't have a sense of panic in the market yet.

Peter Fontaine

We have to wait and see how this storm develops, going into Texas. We don't have a sense of panic in the market yet.

Joseph Cohen

Today the markets are already priced for imperfection,

Ned Riley

Today the market anticipated possible problems over the weekend. If nothing happens, we might have a better Monday than we've been having.

Carl Rogers

When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.

Beth Riesgraf

It's so weird, not knowing what your life is going to be. I'm being optimistic. And when 'Leverage' comes to an end, I have lots of ideas for other things. You can't really sit and wait for things to come to you.

Bill Bryson

Being a pessimist is just such a gloomy way of looking at things, so I have to hope for the best - life wouldn't be worth living if we didn't have hope. And I also do think that human beings often do do wonderful, correct, brilliant things. So, on balance, I'd like to be optimistic about the future.

Randy Tinseth

We could have as many as 200 orders in 2004. We are optimistic about the opportunities this year especially for the 7E7.

Jim Scherr

We're very pleased with where the U.S. team is and optimistic about what we can do the rest of the Games.

Gerrit Zalm

You can also be pessimistic and worry that there will be so many disagreements that nothing will come of it. Let us remain optimistic in that regard for the time being.

Giancarlo Fisichella

We are optimistic that this problem will not re-occur.

Chris Ault

We are optimistic he can pass it, but if not, we would like to put him in a JC.

Tom Hudachko

We're pretty optimistic that we can reach some sort of partnership.

Nancy Grace

What joy would I get from putting the wrong person behind bars?

Seal

I have no problem putting my feet up and watching football but my mother-in-law is always doing stuff.

Dennis Lobenberg

Most of them are in my garage. I haven't worried too much about putting any signs up because of the weather.

Bubba Crosby

I was thinking about putting down another bunt.

H. Jon Benjamin

I'm not opposed to putting myself in danger for meaningless comedy.

Peter Lonard

We're not sure who we're putting Hensby with.

Eric Ripert

We are putting in a lot of fabrics.

Shawn Oubre

We are putting all our resources into getting the repairs made.

Henry Cotton

The big trick in putting is not method; the secret of putting is domination of the nerves.

Tom Foreman

We've had dialogue. It's just like the old days, in terms of the relationship.

Chris Pelchen

We're waiting on the Kangaroos to come back in terms of that deal.

Hamdi Ulukaya

On the tech side, little start-ups can do something magnificent. They don't need too much in terms of plants and infrastructure.

Yossi Beilin

We have no terms for dialogue, but we do have terms for negotiations.

Hallie Ephron

Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.

Jay Farrar

I don't view it in the terms of a comeback,

Stephen Davis

I don't think of this in terms of winning,

Steve Squyres

We're not going to take any risks. It's a big crater in terms of diameter, but really shallow. It's nothing like Endurance.

Willis Reed

We would still have been here if we could have come to terms with the union.

Joe Gibbs

Two weeks in a row, he's been pretty impressive.

Brian Goorjian

It could be two weeks or it could be the season.

Annika Sorenstam

I have had two weeks off and I'm rested,

Joe Riley

We're going to try it for two weeks to see if it works.

Annika Sorenstam

Three-under after two weeks of really no golf, I can't complain,

Nicole Sullivan

I was only in LA for two weeks when I got that job. And I didn't work again for two years.

Gail Sheehy

Like everyone else in the first weeks after the tragedy of 9/11, I was looking frantically for some way to help.

John Batina

We've been doing that for two weeks now.

Lori White

They thought in two weeks it would be in the back of the closet.