Famous Quotes & Sayings

The Holiday Inn Express is a limited-service facility that doesn't have a restaurant, bar or banquet space.

Brendan Shanahan

The hockey mentality is that when we're challenged, we grow tighter together. One player or two might speak out and it might reflect (poorly) on the union, but 99 percent of the union will band together.

The first year I got here there was barely a band and then the numbers increased a lot. Each year since then, the numbers have dropped slightly.

Brian Greene

You don't have to search far to locate where the big bang occurred, for it took place where you are now as well as everywhere else; in the beginning, all locations we now see as separate were the same location.

You don't have that. How would the situation be any different if Mr. Giordano were a bank president?

You don?t have quite the bandwidth requirements, or the density of high-bandwidth customers in one location.

Jon Bon Jovi

How can the Replacements be the best band of the 80s when I've never even heard of them?

John Cleese

How to defend yourself against a banana

You'd expect New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago. When you look at the places the greatest band in the world plays, that they would select Charlottesville is pretty cool.

Alexander Downer

You could hide things under a raincoat I suppose. I don't think we're going to ban raincoats.

Eugene Hutz

You could get tapes of the Western bands on the black market. But it was not easy. And most people did not know this music existed.

Michael Thomas

You can write off the chance of the Reserve Bank cutting rates this year and well into next year. Good profitability means you can hire people.

We see CCB as a bank on the move. But it remains a work in progress. There is still a lot of ground to cover.

We see a substantial risk of a financial crisis as an integral part of an Icelandic 2006-2007 recession. The funding squeeze of the banks will probably force them to reduce lending to domestic players, and force a sell off of external assets.

We see another 25 basis-point rate hike next month. The central bank seems to be a little bit concerned the economy may be growing too fast. The Canadian dollar will continue to do well.

We're trying to get more bands to stop by and perform or just sign autographs.

Very often central bankers don't want to give a very clear message because they want to convey the uncertainty, and they tend to use this rather strange language.

Max Baucus

U.S. - China Economic Relations Revisited. China maintains an unjustified, WTO-inconsistent ban on U.S. beef, despite clear scientific evidence that our beef is safe.

You don't keep customers by insulting them or downgrading them, ... When you're in a meeting with buy-side clients, you say 'This is an investment banking client.' It's a code word for 'I'm not going to be harsh on this client,' or 'You need to read between the lines.'

You go check your bank account. Works for me.

You have to remember these people were stretching the rubber band about as far it would go for five years.

You get a guy who can bang a little bit, rebound a little bit, dive on the floor. You got a hustle guy who does a little bit of everything.

Paul Watson

In 1993, I chased Cuban and Spanish drag trawlers off the Grand Banks off of Newfoundland. And it cost them $35 million in losses.

People in retail banks are not smart. They have a business model that's quite difficult to not make money out of - but still they somehow manage it.

Paolo Bacigalupi

Originally, 'The Windup Girl' started as a short story - a very gnarly, complicated short story set in Bangkok that didn't work very well.

Phil Lesh

When the band would leave the stage, and then the audience would just take over, and keep the groove goin'.

Phil Lesh

In a way, it's my way of dealing with, finding closure with Grateful Dead music, and giving thanks in a way to Jerry and Bob and all the guys in the band for making up this wonderful music.

Patty Griffin

One of the great things that I loved about doing solo - which I ended up doing because I was too shy to ever try out for bands back in the day - I could sit there with a list of songs and 'paint away' for the show.

Paul Davies

A universe that came from nothing in the big bang will disappear into nothing at the big crunch. Its glorious few zillion years of existence not even a memory.

Paul Broun

All that stuff I was taught about evolution, embryology, the Big Bang theory, all that is lies straight from the pit of Hell. And it's lies to try to keep me and all the folks who were taught that from understanding that they need a savior.

Michio Kaku

First of all, the Big Bang wasn't very big. Second of all, there was no bang. Third, Big Bang Theory doesn't tell you what banged, when it banged, how it banged. It just said it did bang. So the Big Bang theory in some sense is a total misnomer.

Steven Van Zandt

I'm a real band guy, you know? I'm really good at certain things, and the band stuff is one of them.

Rick Pitino

I think I do regret leaving Kentucky because I took over a team with 15 wins banking everything on the Tim Duncan lottery, and once we didn't get Tim Duncan, I realized that leaving Kentucky was not a good move.