Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chrissie Hynde

I'm not a figurehead for anything. I was a single mom with two kids. What else was I going to do? It was either be in a band or be a waitress.

Dev Hynes

I'm pretty much fully digital. I've basically spent a few painstaking days putting sounds into my laptop, just banking them, because I love playing, and I love visually seeing it on my screen and being able to change the sounds more, with different plug-ins. I've created my own synth sounds.

After I met my partner, Mr. Protherow, we decided to start a banking project, and at the same time we started to think already about a business on a bigger scale. At the very beginning we thought more about gaining money, to have a normal life with our families, etc.

Wole Soyinka

Military dictatorship, you can focus on it, you can fight it directly. It's a band of power-driven people.

Nat Wolff

I've been playing my instrument since I was about three or four. That's when I started banging around on the piano, trying to be like The Beatles.

Nicole Holofcener

If you keep the situations real, the characters' behavior will be real and honest, too. If they're suddenly robbing a bank and exchanging snappy dialogue, well, I wouldn't even know how to write that.

Francisco Goya

With all my work, I have not more, with my shares in the bank and the Academy, than twelve or thirteen thousand reales a year, and with all this, I am as contented as the happiest man on earth.

Carrie Brownstein

These new bands sound like Gang of Four — if Gang of Four sucked.

Bill Vaughan

Our banking system grew byaccident; and wherever something happens byaccident, it becomes a religion.

Bill Burr

I heard a quote once in a documentary about a band that said you're better off owning everything 100 percent and selling 20,000 copies of an album than signing with a record company and selling a million copies. There has never been a truer statement about show business than that.

The 3 percent charge has been coming into effect over the past year, but a lot of smaller banks and credit unions only charge the 1 percent, and American Express is still at 2 percent.

Danica Patrick

The Argent/Pioneer Honda was really good today. I really think we got everything out of the car the way it was set up. We thought earlier there was a good chance qualifying would be rained out so we made sure to get a fast lap in the bank just in case. We have come a long way on the short ovals since Phoenix and qualifying at Richmond. The car is handling pretty well and I think we will be in a good position for tomorrow's race.

The American public knows that the banking sector has had record profits for the last four years. It's an opportunity to be generous.

The announcement was bang in line with market expectations.

That would increase unemployment and hurt our economy, and commercial banks could also face a difficult operating environment.

That would be happening here as high-techs and banks were sold heavily in the past few days.

Chino Moreno

That was weird because we were the oldest band there. You see a lot of the younger bands, and it's just a reminder of how things are now. It was a good time, but we felt like grandparents out there sometimes.

Pierre Lueders

That was probably the best combination until this one. And that one would have been first-second if I hadn't fallen into the sled, slipping trying to get in, then banging into the wall on the first turn.

That way, the onus is on the bank (to perform).

We have already made big progress in banking reforms.

Helen Zille

We need to know where the money to build the stadium is coming from, how it will be funded and that we don't bankrupt the city in the process.

John Baldacci

We need to keep investing in economic and homeland security. We need to bank on the right kind of economic development. We need to embrace opportunities, but with the right kind of safeguards.

We could, in fact, have the whole business in profit. But we want to keep growing. We did not get $10 million in the bank to earn interest.

We know that we will have to make sacrifices but we're hoping the bankruptcy judge will perceive what a disproportionate sacrifice Delta is trying to wring from this group of working women -- most of them mothers who help support families.

We have two new stadiums, we have solid sponsors in Rogers, the National Bank and American Express, and we have good relationships with the ATP Tour and the WTA Tour.

We can see what's going on in the market because we have all these other banks we're negotiating for.

Sendhil Mullainathan

Organizations talk about spending their lives firefighting - dealing with the next problem without having the bandwidth to deal with what is down the pipeline. I think most of the poor have that problem.

Sendhil Mullainathan

Economists specialize in pointing out unpleasant trade-offs - a skill that is on full display in the health care debate. We want patients to receive the best care available. We also want consumers to pay less. And we don't want to bankrupt the government or private insurers. Something must give.

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.

Maurice Greene

My stance has always been that there's no place in our sport for drug users. I've always said it's a ban for life if you come up positive. I stand by that.

Paul Eenhoorn

I did some stage when I was a kid, around 16 or so. I was living in Melbourne and had a band. I was quite young. We weren't very good. Then I found a band in Perth. We played around for three years. We're in the 'History of Rock'N'Roll,' a book about Perth music.

With the world changing fast, we needed capital for investments. There's only so much bandwidth in your own balance sheet.

Marcus Samuelsson

Here's a thought: what if we ban the word 'healthy food' from our culinary vocabulary? I'm not talking about banning foods that are considered healthy. I'm talking about changing the way we think about food overall.