Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marcy Kaptur

The economy may be complex, but Americans understand that the Wall Street banks control an outsized portion of the economy and that they have an outsized interest in their own profits.

John Rothfield

Major central banks in the world have talked about hiking rates, so if the Bank of Canada signals they are coming to the end of rate increases, it may push investors to sell the Canadian dollar further.

Gary Hufbauer

Many of our banks have lent money to Brazil, and some of those loans may not look so good today after the devaluation as they did before. so banks will be hurt, or some banks will be hurt and the stockholders in those banks will be hurt.

Claes Fornell

Many banks struggle to deal with customers. Customers often end up feeling trapped in a technology maze, where they have to press this button or that button on their phones, and can't find their way out.

Mario Pierry

Shares of banks in emerging markets have a much larger growth potential than banks in developed Europe.

Alwi Shihab

Several Islamic banks are keen on opening branches in our country.

Sandy Sanderson

Mother Nature plays strange tricks in strange ways, but the Outer Banks has been spared a direct hit.

Pierce Brosnan

My life started on the banks of the Boyne in County Meath. Navan is the name of the town; only me, Mom, Dad.

Gerry Rawcliffe

One motivation that could be at the back of European minds is the danger of the American banks coming in.

Isabella Rossellini

I think I was always interested in animals. If a man likes a woman, you know, he might discuss business, but there's a part of his brain that is looking at the girl coming in and checking the girls. I do the same with animals.

Isabella Rossellini

It's a new business for me to be a filmmaker.

Rick Perlstein

Social conservatism, business conservatism: the one side constitutes the other, like some infernal Mobius strip.

Robert Osborne

In a business like the movie business, you're going to have a lot of people competing. Somebody is always coming behind them who wants their job. Being an actor is like being in quicksand: whatever you do, it disappears very quickly. You have to keep reminding people.

Robert Osborne

I grew up in a small town where I went to the movies a lot and fell in love with all these people. I also fell in love with the movie business. So all I saw were actors on the screen so I thought, well, that's what I have to be if I want to be a part of the movie business.

Ronald Kessler

Hiking taxes on the so-called wealthy would help send us into a recession because so many small businesses report their income on individual tax returns. If taxes are raised, they will be less likely to be able to hire new workers and make new capital investments.

Kevin Mitnick

What happens with smaller businesses is that they give in to the misconception that their site is secure because the system administrator deployed standard security products - firewalls, intrusion detection systems, or stronger authentication devices such as time-based tokens or biometric smart cards. But those things can be exploited.

Marc Morial

The mayor has got to work closely with a wide variety of people, his city council, state legislature, governor, business community, labor community, president and the congress in order to be able to do this.

Daniel Callahan

Like business and journalism, these are unregulated professions in an uncredentialed field,

Gordon Haff

Obviously, they have to sell lots of systems of this size to pay back what has to be a considerably larger R&D investment than they have even with Galaxy.

Jeffrey Benjamin

The only lasting investment is an investment in yourself.

Bill Jr

We made an investment that hasn't realized a return yet.

Mahbubur Rahman

Since independence, Japan has been Bangladesh's largest development partner, but private investment from Japan remained at low level in that sense.

Nathaniel Smith

I'd like see the the party give strong arguments for more investment in post-secondary education. What's a better place to do it than in Halifax, where there are so many students?

Assemblywoman Garcia

We need investment in transportation and investment in people.

David Dreman

Patience is a crucial but rare investment commodity.

Christopher Hayes

Women's skills and abilities are no different from men's but they put a tremendous pressure on themselves to make perfect investment decisions.

Daymond John

I consider each business investment based on concept and revenue.

Tim Johnson

So far, we've laid 5,000 tons of rock and about 300 yards of grout.

Sally Kempton

Men have laid down the rules and definitions by which the world is run, and one of the objects of their definitions is woman

Martin Frost

never laid out as a requirement for deals.

Gerry Fleming

Fresno played well, we laid an egg, and it was an unacceptable performance. We have to play better.

Chiang Kai-shek

I have always told my subordinates that when they commit any mistakes, the blame must be laid on the superior officers.

Bart Schouten

She's laid back, but we all know she can step up when she wants to. In the big competitions, she always skates well. She WILL skate well at these Olympics.

Scott Winfrey

She completely laid out. She saved us three runs.

Esther Rolle

I ruffle a lot of feathers. And I'm also selective - that makes you a troublemaker. But so be it. I laid a cornerstone for black actors, and that makes me happy.

A.J. Hawk

Yeah, but I don't think they would respect me if I just laid down and not play hard.

Mary Mark

Make the most of your money. Use your local talent and try to have something for everyone's taste.

Mike Adams

Occasionally, you'll find a little tool. It all tells a story. I can show you some rocks that they used as a local source of materials.

Nathan Moss

I got to thinking of the school system, especially our local school here.

Ryan Julison

She wants to support her local tournaments. We're disappointed, but we understand.

David Dunn

Since Sept. 11, the local police, our role has changed, ... Before, we were worrying about burglaries, thefts.

Dick Reed

If they have to do everything from Riverside, I don't know how we'll manage local emergencies.

Victor Lin

If we could get support from the state and from these local companies, there is no reason why it would not stay here. I see opportunity in Iowa.

Michael McDonald

We have to work with a lot of other local agencies, and that takes time.

John Desmond

We need to use the local option. We're at that point.

Ned Freed

Never, in my experience, has the IETF seen such a ridiculous flap over intellectual property rights.

Paul Wolff

if we don't support that tourist industry, our property taxes are going to go through the roof.

James Wray

If this can be done to us, no one's property is safe.

Charles Yates

I'd like to sell them some oceanfront property in Dickenson County.

Mike Cohen

The property is zoned agricultural-residential. This is not agricultural or residential.

Peggy Moriarty

The property is rare. It reminds you of Camelot. It's just perfect.

Cheng Chin

We are controlling the fundamental property of material.

Catherynne M. Valente

Family is a transitive property.

Linda Newman

I always wanted waterfront property but this is ridiculous.

Jevon Kearse

Obviously, they didn't like what they were seeing. We didn't like what we were seeing either, but we couldn't leave.

Elizabeth Bibesco

Seeing through is rarely seeing into.

Isaiah Kacyvenski

On one hand, it's going to be tough seeing him over there,

Tony Soprano

I was seeing a therapist myself about a year ago, ... I had some issues.

Nick Jonas

I think a lot of what you do in acting, and for the most part singing and dancing and everything, is trial and error. It's all about just seeing what works, and if it does, to use it, and if not, to throw it away.

John Landis

We were just seeing how wacky you can be.

Bob Schnorbus

We're sort of seeing an orchestrated slowing of the economy. But what we're not seeing is a slamming on the brakes.

Tom Warner

We're going to start seeing a lot more of these.

Ed Stansfield

What we're seeing now is the first signs of stress.

Albert Schweitzer

Happiness is the only thing that multiplies when you share it.

Arlen Specter

Should (the information) have been shared if it could have prevented (the) 9/11 (attacks)?

Frank Robinson

If we can do that more often, we're going to win our share of games.

Scott Wilson

You make something from nothing, you want to share it.

Dick Franti

We still had our share of mistakes, but we made our way through it. We didn't let them get us down.

Becky G

I just want to stay creative, share my ideas and see where it all leads.

Alan Watts

...[W]ords can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

I don't feel I have to share everything.

Bertolt Brecht

Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.

Edmund White

Most writers tend to get worse rather than better. I'm determined to be one that gets better.

Timothy Noah

Moderates tend more than ideologues to be other-directed types who respond to external pressure.

Emily Mortimer

I'm always drawn to the thing I think I can't possibly do, because I tend to be better when I think I can't possibly do something than I am when I'm pretty sure I can do something.

Chris Adrian

My natural tendency is to write about zombie bunnies, but one of my first writing teachers got incorporated into my writing superego, and I keep hearing his admonition to make things feel more real the weirder they get.

Anthony Hopkins

I tend to get bored quickly, which means I must be boring.

Idina Menzel

I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.

Bryan Cogman

I tend to work in coffee shops. I need to get out of the house, and, well, I need the coffee.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

All actors tend to be the same messed-up people.

Kat Edmonson

When I tend to belt, it kind of reminds me of like a more '60s girl doo-wop kind of belting.

Stephen Moyer

One of the things that I've been trying to do with my characters, one of the things that does lead to me turning things down, is I don't really want to repeat myself.

Thomas Brodie-Sangster

I'm not a 'guitarist.' I'm trying to be a bassist.

Taron Egerton

I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety.

Dick Wolf

The most positive step is to try to expand the employment base by making it, if not economically friendly, at least not economically disastrous, for studios to take on deficits.

Dick Van Dyke

When I get some budding young comic who'll come up to me and say, 'What was it like to do it in those days?' I try to be as gracious to him as Stan Laurel was to me.

Diane Lane

I try not to be overly analytical.

Dennis Farina

I don't know if I have a technique. I'm just trying to remember the words.

Denis Johnson

What could be lonelier than trying to communicate?

Deborah Roberts

There is no sin in delegating. The sin is trying to do it all.

Dennis Potter

That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.

Eleanor Roosevelt

It is today that we create the world of the future.

Eleanor Roosevelt

You rarely achieve finality. If you did, life would be over, but as you strive new visions open before you, new possibilities for the satisfaction of living.

Edvard Munch

I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.

Eddie Vedder

Our influences are who we are. It's rare that anything is an absolutely pure vision; even Daniel Johnston sounds like the Beatles. And that's the problem with the bands I'm always asked about, the ones derivative of the early Seattle sound. They don't dilute their influences enough.

Deepak Chopra

Globalism began as a vision of a world with free trade, shared prosperity, and open borders. These are good, even noble things to aim for.

Deepak Chopra

If you had all the money and all the time in the world, what would you do?!

Alan Cohen

When your sense of worth exceeds your conditions, conditions will shift to match your vision.

Walter Benjamin

My fantasy of Cuba was that everybody was going to be going around looking like Fidel, with green uniforms - and it was very different from my vision of how Cuba was going to be.