Famous Quotes & Sayings

It is always a concern, especially if it leads to higher interest rates as central banks deal with inflationary pressures. The question is how would that impact on consumption?

I think there will probably be a lot of guys. Like baseball a few years back, guys who are bubble players, who don't have $5 million in the bank that need this for their career, for their families, they may look at this as an opportunity.

I think there will clearly be some potential impact on the September quarter from the handset subsidy ban in Korea. However, we think that the long-term story for Qualcomm remains very strong.

Laurent Fabius

I think there will be talks between the banks and the unions. But the introduction of the euro is a historic act,

I think there's a violation of the bankruptcy code. This court should direct those funds be returned to RCM immediately. This seems like a no-brainer.

I think there was a lot of pressure on banking stocks because of what will happen with the Fed. My sense is that there is a little more optimism and there's more of a chance we could get some mid-term intervention from the Fed.

Thomas Schelling

Just as it may be easier to ban nuclear weapons from the battlefield in toto than through carefully graduated specifications on their use, zero is a more enforceable limit on cigarettes or chewing gum than some flexible quantitative ration.

Just as central bank officials have been saying, what really counts is reform of the foreign exchange formation mechanism rather than the level of the exchange rate. This move is a vital part of that reform.

Just call your bank and tell them, 'I'm going to be using this card in France or Bongo or wherever it is.

Japan ought to refer to (the Bank of England's 2% inflation target).

Japanese interest rates continue to price in tightening from the Bank of Japan. We think it's a bit premature, but the currency market is taking notice.

Japanese companies are regaining pricing power by gradually reflecting rising manufacturing and labor costs in their product prices. The Bank of Japan may raise interest rates as early as August.

Janssen has a little bit more velocity and sharper stuff right now. Banks is very usable, this kid is going to be a decent big-league pitcher.

Jeans & Classics have a great reputation as one of the more highly rated national touring symphony pops program groups. The Jeans 'n' Classics band -- there are several of them -- do covers of great bands of the past. There's a Led Zeppelin band. They have a Beatles Band. And people really swear by them. They are very well rehearsed and they are very polished.

Jim Burnett is ideally suited to lead the build-out of the Bank's expansion activities. Jim has a long track record of successfully managing large complex projects. His technical and project management expertise will enable the Bank to efficiently continue its expansion plans and appropriately utilize new technologies to enhance our customers banking experience.

Mena Grabowski Trott

I wrote a post about wanting to buy a banjo - a $300 banjo, which is a lot of money, and I don't play instruments; I don't know anything about music. I like music, and I like banjos, and I think I probably heard Steve Martin playing, and I said, 'I could do that.' And I said to my husband, I said, 'Ben, can I buy a banjo?' And he's like, 'No.'

Last summer, President Bush and other world leaders promised debt cancellation to the world's most impoverished countries. But a proposal before the World Bank this week would needlessly delay cancellation for at least two years from last year's G-8 summit for more than half of those countries eligible.

Mark Stevenson

Larry has contributed immeasurably to the vision of how to build a bank uniquely geared to the needs of Portland-area businesses and business owners. His commitment to that vision has given Capital Pacific Bank a solid foundation from which we will continue to grow and evolve. We wish Larry the very best.

I think everyone that came here came to get a championship and get a banner hanging from the ceiling. We have a good chance of doing that and making history for the Tennessee men's basketball team.

I think everyone in this room understands that the dual banking system is at a crossroads,

I saw him at Sun City and didn't really know what to expect. But when he came out with a six-piece band, played the clarinet in a Big Band style and told these wonderful stories of his life in show business, it all ends up as one great big deal.

Don Herold

I say, let's banish bridge. Let's find some pleasant way of being miserable together.

Roy Horn

I saw a bank of white light, and then I saw all my beloved animals. For a moment I stepped out of my body.

I remember times going out and sitting on the bank of the Mississippi river, smoking a cigar and watching the sun go down. I don't know how they will recover from it, I don't know.

I was curious at first (about the system), because I love to run up and down. I find now that I've gotten used to it that it really does suit me. I still get out in transition and run. But I really enjoy this, rough and tough, just banging around.

Sam Hughes

I was doing bands from the 7th grade until eleventh grade, actually. From there, started teaching myself the other instruments.

Steve Smith

I thought we had a chance to score him and had a good read on the outfielder. I got burned. Manny had a nice throw to the cutoff man and it was a bang, bang play. I don't feel too good about it right now.

Billy Donovan

I thought the release by one of them there in the second half at the end of the game, his follow through did not look good on it and it came up short. Lee was in here (Sunday) night getting shots up. I've obviously got to be intelligent here because I've got a player burden in Brewer and we're down to eight scholarship guys. It's not like every day Lee can run and bang and go up and down the floor.

Philipp Meyer

I thought that I would have a huge literary novel coming out when I was, like, 29. I quit my banking job, and I was halfway through my second novel - and I will never publish it, because it's very mediocre.

I think we had normal consolidation here. It seems like people are banking on a better second half. I don't think it's going to run away, but it's going to get gradually better.

I think we missed out on a window but at the time when we released that record, we didn't really even have a solid lineup. Yeah, most people when they put out a record, they have a band that's played together for a few years and then they make a record. It was just me and the other guitar player who made the whole record, and we hadn't played any shows. I met the bass player at the photo shoot. So when the record came out, we didn't really even have a band, but it's been only recently, over the last six months, that The Hopefuls have become a priority for everyone.

Jeff Nelson

I think we were a good band, and we worked hard. But considering how many other hard-working bands there were, it's very flattering to have somehow percolated up towards the top and still be considered relevant and of interest today.

I think what's happening is that with Japanese banks wanting to clean positions by March 31, we're hearing that they have been big sellers in North America.