Famous Quotes & Sayings

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).

Steve Winwood

A band is not a marriage. There are no oaths of allegiance. If you feel your life will be better served by splitting up the group, you've got to do it - but of course it does cause problems.

Ian Rankin

By that time, Rebus will be 59 and, for a CID officer, he is getting fairly long in the tooth. They will have brought in the smoking ban by 2007, so he will definitely want to retire to somewhere in the sun for a drink and a smoke.

Just what I've caught in the last three weeks is amazing. I can zoom into every register . . . the other night we had a fight that involved 21 people and from freeze framing the fight we were able to identify all 21 of them, ban them from the club and turn their names over to the police . . . I'm able to for the first time ever to watch the whole club.

John Entwistle

It is great to be back in a four piece band where there are a whole bunch of holes to fill and I do it. It is exactly what I want.

Regulators are working to resume share sales soon, and I expect the ban to be lifted in the second quarter.

In the long run, a ban is inevitable. Where there's been a ban elsewhere in the world, revenues dip then bounce back. In our non-smoking pubs we're getting more women, more families and selling more wine and food.

Jacob Sullum

If you ban smoking outside near a door or window, essentially you have no place to smoke except your own home - and maybe not even there. What's next? Smoking in a house with children will be considered child abuse. Smoking around pets will be cruel to animals.

I just figured they would have more restrictions and limit the number of machines you could have in a store. I didn't think they would ban them all together.

I listened to the evidence, and the evidence said for us to become the first state in the union to ban this is a good thing.

I personally don't think a ban is your only but best answer. There should be some things we can do... This is not a complicated product to make it more secure.

I have tabled a motion to the upcoming NPC session, suggesting the State Council formulate regulations on smoking ban in public places as early as possible.

I have put forward a motion to the upcoming NPC session suggesting the State Council (the central government) formulate regulations on a smoking ban in public places as early as possible.

Kenneth Ulman

In June, we will pass a new smoking ban for Howard County.

Max Baucus

I'm glad that Thailand agrees. Now it's time for Japan to lift its ban as well,

I'm glad I was there, because I think that house would've gone up real quick. It was the one time the winter parking ban was a good thing.

The fireworks ban is good, because no one can tell what's going to happen with the season.

The complaints are getting more frequent every year. I wouldn't be surprised if a campus-wide ban goes into effect.

Patricia Hewitt

The Health Bill will include a ban on smoking in enclosed workplaces and public places which will cover 99 percent of the workforce,

Alexander Downer

You could hide things under a raincoat I suppose. I don't think we're going to ban raincoats.

The life science industry is doing well in Michigan, one of the few, and it is succeeding without lifting the ban on cloning stem cells or creating and destroying embryos.

The crux of the statement was unchanged (from the last meeting). They said that policy remains accommodative, but that the central bank will respond to changes as needed. That's been the mantra since the tightening period began last June.

Arnold Palmer

I've stated my position, and that is that we do not need a contraption to play the game of golf. I would hope that we'd play under one set of rules, and those rules would include a ban on the long putter hooked to the body in some way, shape or form.

Javier Solana

We are jointly calling on both countries to refrain from further testing and to sign up unconditionally to the Non-Proliferation Treaty and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty,

The beef ban and military base realignment will be seriously discussed with Bush pressuring Koizumi on the former and Koizumi pressuring the U.S. on the latter.

The ban was only on meat, live ostrich and fertile eggs that can be hatched.

The ban on soda in Connecticut schools looks like an idea whose time has come ... even though most people don't think it will be very effective curbing obesity in children and teenagers.

The band has not fully made up its mind. Things have already changed, and God only knows if they'll change some more.

Jonny Greenwood

The rest of the band were basically friends, So it was me following them around and begging them to let me be in their band for two or three years. And they finally let me in on the harmonica, actually, and then the keyboards, and finally the guitar.

These trophies are for all the past marching band competitions we have been in.

Not only is everyone in the band very good musicians, but we are all good friends and have a good time together.

Scott Williams

The new 1310 nm OBR from Luna Technologies fills a very important measurement need for us, ... It has all of the functionality in terms of sensitivity, range, and resolution as the 1550 nm system, but it allows us to measure critical components in the wavelength band they were designed to operate.