Famous Quotes & Sayings

Donald Steel

We've asked investment bankers to assist with the review, but that doesn't mean we're putting it up for sale. We're exploring every option, from status quo to complete sale and everything in between.

Alan Greenspan

Since I've become a central banker, I've learned to mumble with great incoherence. If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.

Alan Blinder

The last duty of a central banker is to tell the public the truth.

Charlie Munger

A banker who is allowed to borrow money at X and loan it out at X plus Y will just go crazy and do too much of it if the civilization doesn't have rules that prevent it.

Charlie Munger

I do not think you can trust bankers to control themselves. They are like heroin addicts.

John Ziegelbauer

There are definitely more bankers sitting on the fence this year when it comes to the state of the national economy. There appears to be much indecision about how things will fall out in 2006 with such important things, such as gas prices and the housing bubble, still so uncertain.

Cary Grant

There are only seven movie stars in the world whose name alone will induce American bankers to lend money for movie productions, and the only woman on the list is Ingrid Bergman.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Why is it that all wars are won by bankers?

Eli Broad

I'd be bored to death if I spent all my time with other businesspeople, bankers and lawyers.

Katie Montgomery

We've barely had enough to go five-on-five, but we're ready to be aggressive and do whatever it takes to win. We've beaten tough teams this season. We know how to double-team and help each other out. We just have to be focused and work hard.

Will Holman

We've asked management that question (when a new contract would be imposed) and they haven't given us an answer. It could be immediately or they could use it for additional leverage at the bargaining table.

Brian Finnerty

When we were down this morning, I was worried about some bargain hunting and window dressing coming in; but it certainly did.

Billy Hunter

We remain convinced that the NBA does not have the right to unilaterally create new ways to punish teams that want to improve by spending on player salaries. The effect of this decision is to continue to undermine player confidence in the NBA's administration of our collective bargaining agreement.

Michael Ferguson

We're staring down the barrel of a loaded gun and that gun is ready to fire,

Ben Brockwell

We're staring down the barrel of $4 a gallon for gas.

Tony Ross

We respect our employees rights to organize and engage in collective bargaining and we respect all the rules and regulations in all the jurisdictions that we operate.

Stan Conte

We're going to play a lot off of what Barry tells us, because he's the only one who knows how his knee is going to feel. It's always going to be a day-to-day, week-to-week, month-to- month thing. You can't help but be pleased that he came here, he did some good stuff, he left, and we'll see how it is tomorrow.

Danny Smith

We're going to have a big dance floor, a nice, upper-scale restaurant, and private cigar rooms with stained French doors where people can smoke, dine and watch TV. That's downstairs. Upstairs we'll have a sports bar with pool tables.

Dan Abrams

We've approached a few of the other businesses in this area and had a very positive response,

David Snowden

We've always worked well within DoD guidelines and of course will continue to do so. We support the directive and all regulations that would protect military members from unscrupulous business practices.

John Mackey

We've always tried to be good citizens in the communities that we do business in.

Nitin Nohria

We've always treated the historical context of a particular time as a kind of sidebar to any discussion about business leadership. But we've found that context is far more salient than we ever imagined.

Vince Green

We've always had a successful business here, but you have periods of financial difficulty, and we don't deny that. I've always taken care of my obligations. Sooner or later, we take care of our obligations.

Dan Beck

We've always had an aggressive e-commerce strategy. Since our first Web site in 1994, we realized a Web site was more than just a corporate brochure. It had to be an advanced business tool providing everything companies need to design, print and manage their documents online.

Pat Ivey

We've always felt that this Business 40 effort could be a model for other projects.

Nick Montepara

When we were thinking this through, the emphasis was on what solutions we could enable that would allow us to provide our customers with greater convenience and greater comfort when they?re shopping our stores. We spent a lot of time working with the various businesses before we even touched the technology because I felt it was important not to get confused by any preconceived limitations of what technology can do.

Charles Bullock

When I was out looking at different degrees, I felt it was the best degree to prepare me for any type of position in business with the exception of maybe marketing. The language of business is accounting.

Zhang Mao

We've appointed ombudsmen to check implementation of these measures in various hospitals.

Bruce Martin

We respond once we have had a call. We will usually dispatch officers to the scene and look for any suspects. We will make sure that the person that called is all right. We will start an investigation by interviewing them and checking for any evidence. We would heighten our patrol in that area whether it be by car or by foot and that is what we have done is this past particular instance.

Jon Moore

We're going to the Dome to check the missing person list, ... Today could be the day.

Melissa Fleming

We're going to scour through this document word for word, and we're going to check it against declarations we've received in the past,

Tom Smith

What we're looking for behind the scenes are background checks for known felons and other things that are publicly available, to make sure these don't get in the hands of a criminal.

Ian Roberts

What they went on to tell me was that Arron had been under surveillance and that he had been, prior to him moving in he had often checked at known paedophile's house, houses.

Tracey Mills

What they're doing now is more targeted marketing. One is cash incentives - some say it's the next wave after free checking - and the targeted marketing is a trend we've noticed for several years now.

Tom Tucker

When we engraved the 442 names on the back of the medals - that's when the reality sinks in. Everybody in the whole plant had to be involved to check the names and match the medals with the cases. You see names of fathers and sons and brothers and the reality sinks in that basically whole families were wiped out trying to help people. But that's what we do - what we manufacture generally has a higher degree of meaning to those that receive it. It's not just any award.

Donald Trump

When we checked with the title insurance company, they said we had ... a complete right to that entrance and exit.

Joe Biden

When we were in the Balkans, we, in fact, dealt with the Croats as well as the Serbs according to the Dayton accords...

Linda Lightfoot

When we were dealing with the paper world and you were allowed to see the file, you could view the ideas that went into policy development. E-mail is very easy to be lost, and it is a lot more difficult to follow.

Tom Daschle

When I was accused of being an obstructionist, there was a corresponding, a very significant increase in the number of issues that my family and I had to deal with. And I worry about that,

Willa Cather

It takes a great deal of experience to become natural.

Mike Keating

We're mindful that looting is a possibility and we have the resources if we need to deal with it.

Boeing Co

We remain confident a deal will be completed in the near future.

Joshua Slen

We're staffed to deal with thousands of calls, as long as they don't all come at the same time.

Marlon Cook

We're sort of a little behind on it, but we're dealing with it as quickly as we can.

Norman Blake

We're so much happier now. We were in a position we didn't want to be in, dealing with labels that didn't know what to do with us. This album is on our own label, and we're responsible for every aspect of the release.

Yale Hirsch

We've always had periods when something came in vogue, ... This is different because of the Internet. It keeps on going and the riches just keep astounding everybody. All the traders that come up today naturally gravitate toward Internet stocks.

Bob Davis

We've always had a focus as a company on bottom line and fiscal responsibility, ... And I think especially now in the days of Internet consolidation and I think more of a discriminating investor, it pays off very well for us.

Heather Dougherty

We remain enthusiastic about the start of this holiday season, as several categories saw substantial revenue increases. The growth in 2004 holiday revenue suggests that consumers are shifting more dollars to the Internet this season.

Julio Ziegelmann

We're starting to catch the technology wave and stocks tied to Internet are the stand-outs.

Charles Rule

We're going to get to ship Windows 98 with all its Internet functionality intact? and that's the key,

Bill Richardson

What we're saying is that what the Internet needs to do, particularly for them, is to take the power of the Internet, much like you put a magnifying glass in front of the sun, and give them the resources to drive traffic into their stores.

John Chambers

What this industry is about is back to the basics in the new Internet economy; and the basics are profitability, cash flow, productivity and market-share gains,

Michael Robertson

What they're really doing is trying to use the internet as a radio, in effect, a hundred-million-person radio as a way for them to broadcast their music and alert new fans to their music.

Nicole Wong

What his ruling means is that neither the government nor anyone else has carte blanche when demanding data from internet companies.

William Daley

We've asked the lawyers to work overnight to draft some documents, and we'll be back in the morning.

Ron Williams

Tom was one of those perpetual-motion reporters, always running from one court to another, ... And if he wasn't in the courthouse or at a trial, he was on the phone. He had probably the best stable of lawyers and court contacts anyone has ever had.

Amy Johnson

The point is to be OK with your stuttering - and meet adults who stutter who are doctors and lawyers and engineers.

Neal Hersh

We believe that Mr. Baldwin has severe emotional problems. Mr. Baldwin's lawyers attempted to cast terrible aspersions toward Kim rather than focusing on the main issue, which is his daughter.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.

Laura Wasser

To find a pool of lawyers from whom to choose, solicit referrals from other professionals you know or deal with - an accountant, banker or business leader. Check out Bar Association listings as well, and don't neglect Internet research.

Angela King

Women were professors, lawyers and judges. They were journalists, writers and poets.

Robert Cray

Yes, I sing songs about relationships on the edge, relationships of all kinds, but remember I did not write them all, ... They are not all based on my experiences. Years ago, I wrote with Dennis Walker and Bruce Bromberg, who were 10 years older and divorced two or three times. They had great senses of humor, which is where lines like 'a boatload of lawyers just sank' came from. It is their stories on Strong Persuader, my breakthrough album from 1986. Sneaking out the window, 'Porch Light,' they are not my songs or lines. So, my life is not as miserable as some of the music makes it out to be. My wife Sue and I have been married for 15 years. She's an actor, but Sue gets the credit she deserves on some of my songs.

Patrick Burns

With the sheriff asleep in the office, the only way you get justice is with private lawyers like Alan Grayson willing to step up and take down these fraudulent companies. Alan Grayson showed that you can do that even without help from the government.

William Hazlitt

What a fine lesson is conveyed to the mind -- to take no note of time but by its benefits, to watch only for the smiles and neglect the frowns of fate, to compose our lives of bright and gentle moments, turning always to the sunny side of things, and letting the rest slip for our imaginations, unheeded or forgotten! How different from the common art of self-tormenting!

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Many Christians are satisfied with their destination but they neglect the journey.

Lucas Till

I'm a huge video gamer, sometimes a little too much. I'll shut myself in my room just so I can play video games all day and I end up neglecting my friends.

Robert Ecker

We are pleased to have acquired basic cable rights to this significant and important documentary that sheds considerable light upon the often neglected achievements of African-Americans in motor sports.

Marguerite Gardiner

In France, a woman may forget that she is neither young nor handsome; for the absence of these claims to attention does not expose her to be neglected by the male sex.

Washington Irving

The Englishman is too apt to neglect the present good in preparing against the possible evil.

Amartya Sen

The curriculum of the school did not neglect India's cultural, analytical and scientific heritage, but was very involved also with the rest of the world.

William Shakespeare

I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated To closeness and the bettering of my mind.

Calvin Coolidge

The benefit of one is the benefit of all, and the neglect of one is the neglect of all.

Rose Johnson

When I was a girl, all we knew was this neighborhood, ... The beaches were ?whites only.? So Turkey Creek is where we went to fish, pick blackberries, recreate. Oftentimes you could see old people walking down to Turkey Creek with their cane poles in their hands. Churches had no pools inside for baptisms then?we all walked down to the creek and waited until the crowd got there.

Danny Smith

We're going to have a big dance floor, a nice, upper-scale restaurant, and private cigar rooms with stained French doors where people can smoke, dine and watch TV. That's downstairs. Upstairs we'll have a sports bar with pool tables.

Mary Madden

We found that online daters had access to a wider pool that could help them find a better match. They could search for people and focus on niche interests like religion affiliation. They also had a sense of control in an arena where a lot is left up to chance.

James Lee

With the lifting of restrictions and with the talent pool we have accumulated, we can expect that the growth will speed up a bit.

Edward Thomas

We feed the kids first. We use the pool water to flush the toilets, ... We are just trying to make things livable.

Doug Jackson

We feel the community is talking about a community center, which could be phased in or discussed at a later date. We want to get the outdoor pool solidified. We have to approach this in a financial and judicious way.

Charlaine Harris

Once again, I had that feeling of drowning when I hadn’t even known I was in the pool

George Peterson

We've also discussed the possibility of a swimming pool at the school. Who knows. We are taking it one day at a time.

Bob Bowlsby

There are certainly more teams that are in the pool for consideration than any year I've been involved, ... I'm sure given some of the upsets and the things that have gone on already this year, there will be many people who are making a case for themselves that they should be in the tournament field where they might have been left out in the past.

James Lipton

When it began I wrote this passionate letter to people I knew, studio members, of course, and other people with whom we have worked over the years and I said come and teach our students.

Adrian Benepe

We bring in these raptors - many of whom can't fly because they're injured - and then a native raptor who lives in the area will show a great deal of interest, ... At one of these events, we had a huge red-tailed hawk come by and make a really big fuss.

Dottie Kastigar

We are getting better at this. We are learning where to look and whom to talk to.

Charles M. Schwab

What little success I may have won in life I attribute to the loyalty I had for a dear old friend who was my first steel master, whom you perhaps have never heard of: Captain Bill Jones.

James Curtis

What's really common is that all these people are where they don't want to be. They're suing someone whom they, for some reason or another, had a good relationship with. Now the relationship is broken down so severely that all they can do is to take this person to court to try to get their attention. It just manifests itself in the form of a lawsuit.

Christiane Amanpour

U.S. soldiers, with whom I now have more than a passing acquaintance, joke that they track my movements in order to know where they will be deployed next.

Mary Austin

Working with Wal-Mart and SAM'S CLUB allows us to directly reach large populations affected by diabetes, many of whom do not know they are at risk for diabetes or possibly even have the disease, ... Diabetes can be managed and even prevented with diabetes education and the right care. That's what this event is all about.

Louis Stokes

There are, in the King case in particular, some names of confidential informants, persons to whom we promised confidentiality in return for their testimony. We have put their testimony in the public domain, but feel that their names should continue to be anonymous.

Lisa Jakub

If you have someone in your life that you are grateful for - someone to whom you want to write another heartfelt, slanted, misspelled thank you note - do it. Tell them they made you feel loved and supported. That they made you feel like you belonged somewhere and that you were not a freak. Tell them all of that. Tell them today.