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.

Jamie Dixon

We've always thought he was a very good player and always believed in him. He just happened to play on some very good teams behind some very good players. Last year, he developed and got better. He played in a lot of big games against a lot of good people.

John Foley

We've always been second in Rochester behind Nazareth in lacrosse, but I think we've proven we can play with them.

Don Brady

When we were behind by 12, they could have said it's not our night. They could have decided on something else. They didn't and did a great job.

Nick Vitucci

When we were 12 points behind Wheeling, we never doubted ourselves and always believed we could do it.

Ellen MacArthur

When I was out there I was never ever alone, there was always a team of people behind me, in mind if not in body.

Orrin Hatch

We're starting out $36 million behind but we don't need as much as the front-runner,

Jeff Bezos

We're standing behind the transaction with our own pocketbook,

Marlon Cook

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

Mark Perry

We're going to see a period of real public stability, but there's going to be maneuvering behind the scenes,

Tim Sullivan

We're going to send her ... a couple of bottles of Seaside Festival wine so she can celebrate the birth of her child.

Phil Gartside

What Sir Alex said cost him a bottle of wine. I had a nice bottle of red to give him for his birthday, but after what he said he can sod off.

Paul Heath

We're going to keep that portion of this bottle that we know we're going to have to keep with us forever. And from time to time, ladies and gentleman, you may want to fill your bottle back up, because you're life may be filled up with grief. But you can then take out that bottle and pour it out on any living thing.

Chi Chi Rodriguez

The first time I played the Masters, I was so nervous I drank a bottle of rum before I teed off. I shot the happiest 83 of my life.

Charles Simic

Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all others were making ships.

Emily Arnold

There is no question that clean, affordable drinking water is essential to the health of our global community. But bottled water is not the answer in the developed world, nor does it solve problems for the 1.1 billion people who lack a secure water supply. Improving and expanding existing water treatment and sanitation systems is more likely to provide safe and sustainable sources of water over the long term.

Andre Leon Talley

When I do entertain, in the summer, which is rare, I receive my guests on the front porch, set up wicker trays found at Pottery Barn, and serve iced beverages. Anytime I do welcome friends, it's always a tray of canapes or Planters peanuts, jellied candy from Paris, and a good bottle of Sancerre.

Cary Grant

A shot of brandy can save your life, but a bottle of brandy can kill you.

Austin O'Malley

A drunkard is like a whiskey-bottle, all neck and belly and no head.

Carlos Alvarez

We've basically done away with 1,600 telephone numbers. So, you call a central location, 311. All the information is here,

Don Aaron

We would remind people that the Central Police Precinct is headquartered at the GEC. The police presence will be strong.

Dannel Malloy

We found that Central Americans and Hispanics are somewhat reluctant to send their children off to school as early as Anglo-Americans born in this country. There are some cultural differences.

Kevin Beary

We're going to make sure that everything is nice and tidy in central Florida, ... We're taking care of business here.

Lisa Love

Working toward peace is ever more central to my practice. Because we are all so affected by whatever happens in the world at large, it is important to me to work upstream in this way.

Jason Kenney

We're going to be very deliberate about this. We're not in the game of running a smear campaign against individuals, but we do believe accountability is a central issue.

Ros Richardson

We faced Rosary on Aug. 16 at Marion Central and they took third and we took fifth, but they beat us by almost 30 strokes. To only lose by three, we are catching up and getting better slowly.

Larry Twombly

We feel that this is a great deal for both Hat Trick Beverage and Central Park North Records, as both companies are growing, and as Hat Trick Beverage is investing more resources in the Urban and Hispanic markets.

Benjamin Bequer

We're filling a void of an underserved community. We continue to see that in Northern and Central California.

Wayne Bennett

He'll be playing. He's a got a cork or a quad strain but either way he's going to be right to play. We just didn't want Michael out their too long today, but he'll be fine.

Richard Yamarone

History tells us that the Fed has always overshot its tightening goal. Central bankers like to know the cork is firmly implanted in the bottle so that the inflation genie doesn't sneak out.

Rich Yamarone

History tells us that the Fed has always overshot its tightening goal -- central bankers like to know the cork is firmly implanted in the bottle so that the inflation genie doesn't sneak out. The worst thing a central bank can do when fighting inflation is fall behind the curve. Therefore, we are fairly comfortable with our Street-high estimate.

Jack O'Connor

I think it???s clear that there is an obvious difference between colleges football and inter-county football, and Cork will certainly be a far tougher test than what we have met so far, even a good deal tougher than Waterford.

Florentino Perez

I was a cork that needed to be popped to shake up the club.

Chris Jones

Upon surgery, they discovered the wine cork from the New Year's Eve party.

Billy Hughes

Without the Empire we should be tossed like a cork in the cross current of world politics. It is at once our sword and our shield.

Marilyn Tam

Die by your own sword. Live by your principles. ... If you forget what's important to you, you'll be like a cork bobbing on the ocean.

Jim Adkins

Cork offers the ability to provide our customers with multilingual support.

Randy Fletcher

When we went to the zone, we played well. I don't like to go to the zone, but we've been playing it and playing it fairly well. The one time we went to sleep and they came right up and hit a three. But, we sucked it up and caused some bad shots.

Kevin Murphy

We're monitoring (Argent) very closely now, and they've been feeling the pressure. They have been fairly cooperative, although resistant at times as well.

Andy Bryant

What we're seeing now doesn't happen every winter, but it certainly is not out of the normal realm of occurrences. The last few winters have been fairly quiet.

Zach Errett

We wrestled fairly well today. We wrestled at the Bo Henry Tournament last week; we wrestled really well there. Today, we didn't wrestle as good as we could've and I think the guys realize that; I think they kind of figured out that there may have been a few matches we lost that we should've won.

Steve Francis

Webster was low going into the winter, ... and we know it will give up water for irrigation next summer. Unless the situation there changes fairly quickly, it's going to continue to be very low.

Dick Trickle

We bought a ticket and got up in the stands. We got there fairly early and were sitting for what seemed like a half hour, 45 minutes, when all of sudden, here comes my truck and my car across the track. I told Darlene, 'I can't believe Big John (Boettcher) brought my car up here.' So I raced. That was my honeymoon.

Dick Trickle

We bought a ticket and got up in the stands, ... We got there fairly early and were sitting for what seemed like a half hour, 45 minutes, when all of sudden, here comes my truck and my car across the track. I told Darlene, 'I can't believe Big John (Boettcher) brought my car up here.' So I raced. That was my honeymoon.

David Kathman

Weber goes off the beaten path. He practically scoffs at a lot of common valuation metrics and he isn't afraid to get heavily into certain industries that might make other people nervous. He definitely has the strength of his convictions, and for the most part it's worked out fairly well.

William Floyd

We believe this transaction fairly reflects for our stock holders the many improvements we have made throughout Beverly in recent years, as well as our strong operating and financial momentum.

H. Hunt

We've basically been in one long recession that started in the fall of 2000,

Cedric Redmond

When we were going into the locker room at halftime, we heard some fans saying that we're going to fall apart in the second half. We wanted to make sure that didn't happen.

Becky Carlson

When we went to the half-court trap it bothered them and we picked up our defensive intensity. We were able to get some steals. We kept running the offense and got great shots, sometimes they just didn't fall for us but we had a good stretch at the end of the quarter.

Jordin Sparks

When I was on Broadway, I got really sick with walking pneumonia. I decided not to take my health for granted anymore and make it a priority. The great thing is, the pounds just started to fall off.

R. Robinson

We're getting to a crisis point. Facilities will start falling apart.

Phil Mishler

We're going to start with the defensive end and let the other parts fall where they may. You can always give 100 percent on defense.

Don Baylor

We're going to rise or fall as a state together.

John Peterson

We're going to need to get some shots to fall if we want to win against Big Timber. The girls showed the intensity we need in the fourth quarter today, but we need that all the time.

Michael Barrett

We're going to need a miracle now to stay in this thing. I believe in those, but it's definitely frustrating realizing how good of a team we have and how we've fallen short.

Hugh Johnson

When it appears as though the governors of the Federal Reserve believe that the end of the rate increases is near, that's very good news for investors. A lack of ambiguity from the Federal Reserve is always a little bit of a shocker.

Scott Johnson

We're more grassroots than the city guys. We're out there with the people trying to solve problems. We're actually out there doing the foot work. We're not being fed the answers.

J. Horton

We're making history again. Never before have we supported so many state and federal missions.

Malvinder Singh

We remain undeterred in our resolve on this issue and we will press our case in the US court of appeals for the federal circuit.

Larry Wachtel

We remain in a stimulus vacuum and the underlying motif this week will be the Federal Reserve meeting next week.

Richard Bernstein

We remain doubtful that the Fed is indeed 'done,' which has become the overwhelming consensus. We believe they will be more vigilant against inflation.

Colin Lundgren

We're getting to levels now where to buy bonds you have to subscribe to the notion that the economy's going to experience a slowdown and the Fed may have to reverse course later in the year. We don't subscribe to that.

Kim Morgan

We're going to go beyond state and federal requirements for air emissions.

Allen Sinai

What we're seeing is aggressive taking out of insurance by the Federal Reserve to make sure we don't have anything like the 1920s or 30s happen.

Kelsey Lavender

We've always had that problem. Throughout the year, that's what we've been fighting. We've tried to cut down on turnovers and, obviously, we didn't do that once again.

Edith Nawakwi

When we were fighting the third term 'King Cobra' was still in MMD. He fought all potential candidates and took them out of the MMD. He got out of MMD after 90 minutes of the game.

Philippe Petit

When I was learning by myself, despite my parents, despite my teachers, despite society, when I was fighting for building my life as a young wire walker at age 16, I didn't have feelings, I had certainties.

Harri Holkeri

When I was involved in Finnish domestic problems, I used to bring people together and make them work together instead of fighting against each other.

Tony Vis

We're mentally tough and we were not going to go away. We got down 10 and could have easily folded the tent on the big stage. The kids just kept fighting and plugging away and got us back into that thing. They put us in a great position at halftime.

Jose Rios

We're marching to support the people who come here to work for a better life. This is what we're all fighting for.

Mike Drews

We're making progress, we're getting better. Our kids are fighting and working hard, and they'll keep doing that. I'm pleased with our effort.

Jim Kelley

We're making progress, but we'd still like to see the population get lower. The problem we've been fighting is that they've had two straight years of good reproduction. So it's kind of like taking two steps forward and one back. But we think if we stay with the program we have in place, we'll eventually get there.

Kay Robertson

One of the great tragedies I see is people not putting every effort into the foundation of their marriage. My grandmother told me that it's one man and one woman for life and that your marriage is worth fighting for.

Curtis Dubay

What's keeping Arizona firmly in the middle is that they need to do a better job with business taxes.

Susan Lyne

With new initiatives under way in every area of the business, the revitalization of MSLO is firmly underway. Third-quarter earnings were modestly ahead of expectation, largely on the strength of our core publishing business.

Jim Olson

We are proud of our record as an auto industry environmental leader and firmly believe our vehicles comply with the testing procedures as originally written.

Mike Street

We are pleased to have concluded the basis and substance of a deal with Gate Gourmet. The key to unlocking this dispute now lies firmly in the hands of Gate Gourmet and the Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU). They must sort out their differences for the good of our customers and the employees of Gate Gourmet.

Dennis Hastert

We stand firmly behind Tom DeLay and ask that he be afforded the same rights as every other American -- that is innocent until proven otherwise,

Martin Jacques

The question is not whether Tibet should be independent but the extent of the autonomy that it is allowed. Tibet has been firmly ensconced as part of the Chinese empire since the Qing dynasty's military intervention in Tibet in the early 18th century.

Kelly Devers

We're looking at what the governor announced. We firmly believe that charter schools provide an effective educational option.

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

When I felt rather overcome with my father's opposition, I said as firmly as I could, that I must have this or something else, that I could not live without some real work.

Karan Johar

I firmly believe that emotions are universal, and I know that when they connect with the audience, it works. There is no such thing as an entertaining or a serious film; there are good films and bad films. Good films will always find a vast audience.

Leigh Steinberg

If we pull the genie out of that bottle, I don't know that it ever comes back. If we get to that uncapped year, and we get all sorts of proud men with their backs against the wall, I don't think we ever get back to where we are now. So I hope that doesn't happen.

Robert Mitchell

If the telecommunications carriers try to put up boundaries, the Internet will go around them. You can't put the Internet genie back in the bottle.

Richard Yamarone

History tells us that the Fed has always overshot its tightening goal. Central bankers like to know the cork is firmly implanted in the bottle so that the inflation genie doesn't sneak out.

Rich Yamarone

History tells us that the Fed has always overshot its tightening goal -- central bankers like to know the cork is firmly implanted in the bottle so that the inflation genie doesn't sneak out. The worst thing a central bank can do when fighting inflation is fall behind the curve. Therefore, we are fairly comfortable with our Street-high estimate.

David Veal

Laws fashioned after Maine may now proliferate. With the legislative genie out of the bottle and opponents in possession of model legislation that has withstood judicial scrutiny, we believe that the march of regulation over time is now inevitable.

Mitch Lasky

My kids download 10 games. They play them all for two minutes. They throw away the eight they don't like. Then they play those last two obsessively for a month. That's alien to those of us who buy a $60 game and play it for 40 or 50 hours. The discovery mechanism is completely social, and I don't think you get that genie back in the bottle.

Ken Thompson

My background for obtaining these ideas was uh, there was a I went to the school at Berkeley and there was a thing called Project Genie at Berkeley.

William Allen White

Advertising is the genie which is transforming America into a place of comfort, luxury and ease for millions.

Eric Garland

Practically speaking, ... I don't know that it makes any difference to the kid in the dorm room. That genie is already out of the bottle.

Rick Spring

We've always set team goals. Making 100 points in a game isn't one of them, but if it happens it happens.

George Campbell

We've always made it a point to be strong from the goal out. Defense is always a priority, but these kids have offensive talent that can't be denied.

Kevin Cato

We've always felt like our defense was one of the stronger points of our game. Our goal was to have a hand in their face for the full 94 feet of the floor and that would hopefully take away some of their shooting ability.

Dick Umile

When we were down 2-0 tonight, we were playing pretty well. The third goal was not very well played by us. The kid was out front all by himself. We dug ourselves a hole, that?s the disappointing part.

Chris Killingstad

We remain solidly on track to deliver our 2006 financial goals of double-digit earnings per share growth and mid to upper single-digit revenue growth. We continue to make progress on our medium-term goal of 9.5 percent operating margins.

Fred Anderson

We remain focused on our primary goal of returning Apple to sustainable profitability,

Ken Dey

We remain confident we will continue to see an increase in wages if we can successfully bring in more companies that pay higher wages. Our ultimate goal is to get ahead of inflation.

Dave Sarachan

We respected Rochester from the opening whistle, and they were a tough team tonight. We knew that it could go that far and I was proud of my team after conceding a goal for hanging in there. We were a little bit whipped, but we just wanted to keep our composure during the overtime and make sure we didn't give up a second goal. I'm proud of my team and pleased to be advancing.

Steven Gerrard

We're going to the final, that's the most important thing. Whether it was a goal or not, I'm sure people will comment on that, but we're happy we're going to Istanbul. Chelsea put us under pressure but we defended really well.

Darnell Jenkins

When I was in elementary school at Tillman, Black History Month was important because I went to a majority black school. Since I moved into middle school (Haile) and high school, Black History Month has not been recognized as much.

Roy Conli

When I was a kid, I loved history because history to me was a big story.

Brad Grey

Tom's history with Paramount has made for one of Hollywood's most successful relationships; the opportunity to continue our collaboration with him on 'Mission: Impossible 3' is everything anyone in show business could hope for.

Cameron Crowe

Tom's dad also passed away when he was a young man and he had that history of feeling he never really knew him properly - so he just seemed like the best guy to work with on this one,

Lamar Butler

We're making history right now. Nobody can take that away from us.

J. Horton

We're making history again. Never before have we supported so many state and federal missions.

George Schweitzer

We're spending more money on this than any other promotion in UPN history. They've delivered to us a great pilot, and we want to get this out in as many places as we can.

Dan Rooney

We're going to the Super Bowl to win it, not to just be there. This is one of the great moments in the whole history of the league and I've been around a long time.

Dewey Potter

We're going to respond to the council in writing, retrace the history of the project in that response and then the council will decide whether it wants to proceed or not.

John Shaughnessy

What we're seeing happening is the best of all worlds. The economy is strong yet inflation remains quiescent. The earnings outlook remains reasonably good. Given those things, the money continues to flow into the market from both domestic and foreign sources.

Jeff Cheah

What all this tells us and is certainly telling the Fed is that maybe we need to examine what the sustainable growth rate really is. The risk is that we have an economy that is growing at a pace that historically suggests we should see inflation pressures, but we're not seeing that yet.

Allan Meltzer

What he's shown is that you can have full employment and low inflation at the same time. The Keynesian school didn't believe that, but Greenspan showed that it could be done.

Donald Ratajczak

We're going to have high energy prices, a little bit more inflation. Underlying inflation is going to be a little bit higher, but not seriously higher and I still feel good about the overall economy.

Geoffrey Dicks

Unless or until the revival in the housing market translates into higher consumer demand, it is the weakness of the latter that is of greater relevance to the inflation outlook -- and hence the policy decision.

Chris Rupkey

Unfortunately, I think they tried to fight the inflation dragon a little too long, and rejected the counsel of the markets which urged them to cut rates as early as November that year.

John Twomey

We're more trading off of earnings. Investors will be able to tolerate continued moderate inflation as long as earnings continue to accelerate.

Chuck Kearney

With the lineup tonight, and with the way they wrestled at 133 and 157 with the two pins, that's point inflation and it's going to blow the score out of reach.

Steve Barrow

We feel that the ECB should take inflation by the scruff of the neck and raise rates by a half percentage point,

Chris Brown

I love sneakers on a girl. I don't know why, but I guess it's because I'm still a young. I really like just like a girl who has style - a girl who does her own thing, is unique in what she's wearing and works what she's got.

Laurie Sabourin

The postures are unfamiliar, we have to pay attention and focus. It?s not like being on a treadmill at the gym. We all know how to walk. Yoga is so foreign that you need to concentrate. The postures kind of sneak meditation in through the back door.

A. Hodge

We're not going to sneak up on them like I think we did the last time. I think they kind of took us for granted, but this time we know we've got our hands full.

Kim Gordon

My parents lived by Rancho Park. And my mom, later in life, got into playing golf. She and her male cronies would get up at five in the morning and sneak onto the back nine. I kind of just started getting into it. For a long time, I was really puzzled by why people liked it.

Ken Johnson

This was a screwball idea, ... An underhanded and sneaky attempt to scare people. We have credible safety-based arguments supporting our position against importation. We don't have to resort to pulp fiction and Looney Tunes.

Eric Whitacre

As a composer, I know that all sorts of sounds I hear are making their way into my brain and soul and later sneak into my music.

Aidan Quinn

I'd sneak out of the house to meet girls at 3:30 a.m.

Brad Buckman

We know everybody thinks Illinois will come out of it. Maybe that's a way to sneak up and bite somebody, and we can show the world what we can do.

Brad Hill

We have to get back home and get after it tomorrow. There will be a great crowd there and you can't live with this too long. These weekends, man, can sneak up on you. You hang your head and you're down two (games).

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.

H. Hart

What this administration has done ... is to say that until someone tells us that 19 men are going to hijack four airplanes and fly them into the World Trade Centers and the Pentagon at 9 a.m. on September 11, we are not accountable, ... In the Money.

Jeff Cheah

What all this tells us and is certainly telling the Fed is that maybe we need to examine what the sustainable growth rate really is. The risk is that we have an economy that is growing at a pace that historically suggests we should see inflation pressures, but we're not seeing that yet.

Simon Hoggart

What has always puzzled me is the flexibility of God's word. For instance, Catholics can now eat meat on Fridays. And limbo has been abolished. How does this work? Who tells them?

Erick Young

We believe this process of forming stars in a cluster was exactly the same thing that happened with our very own sun 4 1/2 billion years ago. It tells us a lot about the history of our own solar system.

Tom O'Neil

What's not here are those shows on the WB, like 'The Gilmore Girls,' which the TV Critics Association of America tells us is the best show on television, ... Why didn't it get any Emmy nominations? And what about 'Scrubs'? ... It's holding its own, critics love it, viewers love it, but Emmy voters aren't watching it, because it's too young skewing, and the geezer Emmy voters have a demographic a little north of what 'Scrubs' viewers are.

Bee Wilson

Years ago, during a John Grisham phase, I tried to pinpoint exactly why I found Grisham's often predictable legal thrillers quite so comforting. The best answer I could come up with was the frequency with which Grisham tells us that his lead characters are sipping coffee. When it comes to food and drink, predictability can console.

Matt Rossell

We want them to put a label on the fur that tells exactly how the animals lived and died. If the furs were labeled and consumers could make a choice with all of the information, I think the protest would end.

Lisa Cholodenko

At the base of it, my gut instinct tells me that there's a kind of fundamental misogyny in the culture. There just is. You know, there's just a weird anxiety around women.

Jeret Peterson

When we were all down and out, having the worst time of our lives -- we were cold and we were miserable -- Emily was bawling, but she still had a smile on her face. Emily is one of the most positive people I know.

Jeff Lemire

When I was offered 'Hawkeye,' it was very intimidating at first because that book is so loved and so successful, commercially and critically. The worst thing you could do is try to imitate what they did because, in the end, you're just going to get a watered-down version of what they did.

Gary McClure

You don't like anybody to beat you too much. I don't have a long memory. And as an athlete, you can't have too long of a memory. You've got to move on. I can sure remember last year though, because we played two of our worst games against them. ... But it's good to bounce back and get a win tonight. It's good to beat a good club." ()

Craig Fuller

We're going to train progressively toward the end of the year. Last year we ran well for most of the season, but when it came to nationals we had our worst race of the year. We'll make sure we're ready at the right time this year.

Bob Krabbe

We're going to fight that vigorously. If the company were to have its way, we would be looking at losing literally thousands of jobs to overseas labour. This is something that we have not seen at any other airline. United (Airlines) in its worst days has never tried to do this.

John Smit

We're going to Dunedin to win the Tri-nations, not to defend it. We do not want to wait another week to see what will happen in the match between the All Blacks and the Wallabies. It is probably the worst thing in the world to wait and see if you are going to win the trophy. We must make sure we retain the title ourselves.

Kenneth Fisher

Hundreds of investors ask me questions each year about the dilemmas they confront. Their worst problem? Uncertainty. They are traumatized and become emotional or confused to the state of inaction. Even worse, they try to solve a short-term problem in a way that hurts them financially in the long run.

David Wilkins

When we are facing what appears to be more and more the worst natural disaster in our country's history, many of these other issues we have been discussing suddenly pale in comparison.

Lauren Herring

When we got there, our luggage got lost and our hotel was bad. Everything was awful. When we finally got to our final hotel, it was like 2 in the morning. I said then, 'Even if I win this tournament, it's going to be the worst tournament ever.' It ended up being not so bad, though.