Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marc Faber

Every central banker in the world pays attention to credit growth, but not in the U.S.

Marty Heires

Many community bankers have charged that we are going to open branches around the country. That simply isn't true.

Lupe Fiasco

Obama came in and gave $700 billion to the bankers off the top as opposed to giving $700 billion to the poor.

Ben Bernanke

If bankers become overly conservative in response to past lending mistakes - or if examiners force such behavior - it will hurt bankers' own long-term interests and the economy in general.

Eliot Spitzer

I don't have any particular expertise-I've never been a banker or an investment banker. But I did see an evolution in the system that I thought was problematic.

Ricardo Reis

When the score is toted up, we think he has a legitimate claim to being the greatest central banker who ever lived.

Eric Mangini

I was going to be an investment banker and got involved with a semipro team there just on a whim. It changed my life. I found out I loved football.

Julian Callow

Some central bankers perhaps are not seeing growth as strong as the survey data suggest.

Thom Browne

I come from a family of bankers and lawyers, and they joked that they can't believe I'm the one that gets to go to the White House.

Italo Calvino

My university work was not central to my education.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

We have seen a central government taking more and more control over public education, over communications, over transportation, over every detail of our daily lives.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

We have seen a central government promote the power of labor-union bosses, and in turn be supported by that power, until it has become entirely too much a government of and for one class, which is exactly what our Founding Fathers wanted most to prevent.

William Poole

Maintaining inflation stability is the central responsibility of the central bank. But we don't want to be in the situation of over-reacting and driving the economy down,

Steven Spielberg

Making a movie where the central character is a horse was a challenge. Because I'm scared of riding. I was thrown as a kid. One of my daughters is a competitive jumper, we live with horses, we have stables on our property. But I don't ride. I observe, and I worry.

Gordon Brown

Liberalization on services, energy and utilities are part of, and remain central to, a successful single market.

Haruo Shimada

Leading politicians, including Prime Minister Hashimoto, realize the central government has not been treating Okinawa well for a long time,

Ruth Reichl

Sharing food has always had a central place in civilized societies; it's no accident that so many of our cultural, religious and patriotic rituals are involved with eating.

Hatta Radjasa

Seaports, airports and turnpikes will remain under the management of the central government. The Jakarta administration and legislators should respect the prevailing laws.

Rick Perlstein

When conservatives talk to one another, pay attention: they say what they want to do, and mean it. And will do just about anything to get there - even, or especially, claiming that they don't want to do the thing they want to do, until the time is ripe, and they can do it.

Rick Perlstein

The only times during my religious instruction I remember hearing God's name invoked with any sincere conviction at all was in the oft-repeated and breathtakingly chauvinistic claim that Israel's 'miraculous' military victories over much-stronger enemies proved that He was ever on Zion's side.

Ray Takeyh

Libya ... claims to defy international norm, yet at the same time it is hostage to international markets. Libya has nothing more than gas and oil and these are export products,

Rob Sheffield

Loving Duran Duran has been one of the constants of my life, but I have no idea what they would sound like if the women in my life stopped loving them. I guess I'll never know. I could claim that Duran Duran taught me everything I know about women, but that's not exactly accurate: I learned it from listening to girls talk about Duran Duran.

Kayode Fayemi

Looting from the people is not a new thing; we are used to that. But for people who claim to be representatives of their own people to commit this bare-faced robbery is shameful. Where is the rule of law?

Peter Costello

Senator Sherry claimed $300 to stay with his mum at Opossum Bay.

Mahmudur Rahman

So far three probe reports were received and we are waiting for another one. After getting that report, we will take opinion from the legal experts and move forward with a compensation claim package.

Source Unknown

One man gets nothing but discord out of a piano; another gets harmony. No one claims the piano is at fault. Life is about the same. The discord is there, and the harmony is there. Study to play it correctly, and it will give forth the beauty; play it falsely, and it will give forth the ugliness. Life is not at fault.

Gregg Wolper

One is that they claim there are opportunities out there that are too good to pass up.

Warren Haynes

Making that record was one of the greatest musical moments in my life,

Angelina Jolie

Second to my children, spending time with refugees and other persons of need around the world has been the greatest gift, ... It's been the greatest life lesson I could ever receive.

Mary Wittenberg

Monday is the start of two races. One of the races will be over in 2? hours. The other race to be the world's greatest marathoner won't be over for 18 months.

Justin Gatlin

Maurice is one of the greatest competitors in the world. However this is a new era, the young guys are coming.

Gerald Curtis

One of his greatest opportunities now is to push agricultural reform,

Sally Schneider

One of my greatest joys is when someone like your wife takes one idea or one piece of a recipe and does it her way. That's what I'm encouraging.

George Granville

Of all pains, the greatest pain Is to love, and love in vain.

Mike Perez

One through six, they really hate to lose. They all are very competitive. They may not be the greatest practice players, but in matches, I know they are going to get it done.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Music, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest influence over the passions

John Owens

Since we're not making money, I think there is skepticism that is out there and it is legitimate skepticism.

Matt White

I don't condone the use of EPO, but it does have a legitimate use in the treatment of a number of cancers.

Diane Rodriguez

You don't pay money to get money. Those aren't legitimate scholarships.

Scott Weiss

As a first-time CEO, I wasn't sure if I would scale to run IronPort long-term. But I wanted a legitimate shot at it.

Danny White

We still have a legitimate shot at going to the playoffs if we can get on a little run. Two teams will go to the playoffs from our division, so we still have a shot.

Ghassan Khatib

He is pursuing a unilateral approach, which is not constructive, and he wants peace that is incompatible with our legitimate rights and with international legality,

Bob Martinez

But we told Mike we're not going to back off on what we see as our legitimate role as a party.

Tommy Jones

He has tremendous makeup. When he was in the minors, I thought he'd be a No. 3-4 starter. I didn't think he'd be a No. 1, but he's a legitimate No. 1.

Paul Ballew

There is legitimate pressure on some utility categories.

Ed Cange

One night, somebody scores a lot, then another (night), it's someone else. That's our bedrock. It's a team concept.

Ned Yost

We had battled back for him and got him in a situation where the score was tied,

Reggie Lewis

For me, that's natural. The instinct to score comes naturally and if you have it, you've got to go to it.

Dominik Hasek

One of the important things was when it was 0-0 and we killed the five-on-three and they didn't score. We scored after and it's always better if you score the first goal.

Christopher Young

'Sinister' is the first score I've done in which there's no orchestra in it whatsoever. There are traditional instruments I sampled, then manipulated, so you don't even recognize the source anymore.

Patrick Ramsey

If we can do what we did tonight without the turnovers, then we'd score a lot of points, ... And I think it's a successful night for all of us. But those turnovers killed us. It negates really what we did.

Tim Pearce

If they score more than a 6 on this screening form, then they are not going out,

Keith Ballard

I don't get to score that often, so when I do it's fun. And to get the game-winner, it's exciting.

Judy Garland

I could sketch out a score in different keys, a new way each time.