Famous Quotes & Sayings

Natalie Maines

We never had intentions to become a political band but like it or not we have been placed on a unique political platform in the past months. We feel it would be irresponsible not to make something positive come out of that.

Daniel Johns

We never considered ourselves to be a good band or anything, we just thought we were playing for fun and we wanted to play music that sounded like Black Sabbath or Soundgarden or the music we were into at that time.

Hugh Johnson

We need to watch the Japanese parliament and see if they do anything about their banking crisis.

We know there's hundreds of thousands of bands out there. The community we've launched today is in beta, so we want to get to understand the volume.

While we have a lot of work to do and a lot of initiatives under way, bankruptcy is not one of them.

Peter Steele

We've been fortunate that we could choose, from all the songs I'd written, those that the band considered to be the best.

Hillary Scott

We want to stay on this tour bus together as long as we possibly can. I'm sure a lot of bands are like, 'I need my own space.' But we don't. I want to be with these guys forever.

Unlike Milan, Italy's banking capital, or Rome, its religious center, Florence was the place where the rich went to buy goods that would showcase how wealthy they were.

We get Rutgers students at our shows all the time. The Cabin is always a blast to play. It's a way to enjoy a hobby I love, and the band is really smoking. It's great to just see everybody get out there and dance.

We demand that NABI immediately retain an investment bank other than Lehman, or in conjunction with Lehman, to explore strategies to maximize shareholder value.

Ron Gardenhire

We definitely need those guys to hit, that's the middle of the lineup. We need our middle guys to start banging the runs around.

We don't know who will lease these gates. The Delta bankruptcy hearing has not occurred. We don't have those gates in our possession yet.

We won the West Branch League in 1956, 50 years ago. That's the only banner we've got. Up until this year, they said they didn't know basketball existed. Our boys wanted to do something to leave their mark, though.

We want to make sure that despite the scattered showers, we want people to remember that the fire danger is very high to extreme and the burn ban is still in effect.

We want to help get the band back on their feet.

We didn't have as many kids in the student section as we normally do, and we figure the band is worth six to 10 points.

We began with a bang today and suddenly the sellers came out of the woodwork. Certainly a lot of hot money flowed into the tech side recently and that hot money moves so quickly. We may be close to a final sell off on the tech side because it went down a lot faster than it went up.

We are making full efforts to implement the ban and our raiding teams are in the city.

Rick Allen

But the irony is that because the band isn't the focus any more, it allows me the chance to enjoy being a member of Def Leppard much more.

Robert Powell

I was born five days before D-Day in 1944. My father was a mechanical engineer, which was a reserved occupation, so he didn't have to enlist. My mother was a housewife. She worked in a bank before marrying my father.

Rose George

There are few industries as defiantly opaque as shipping. Even offshore bankers have not developed a system as intricately elusive as the flag of convenience, under which ships can fly the flag of a state that has nothing to do with its owner, cargo, crew, or route.

Sarah Lacy

The thought for a long time was that banks needed to be too controlled, too regulated to be turned over to the Wild West of the Net. Then the credit meltdown hit, and we saw just how reckless these so-called safe and regulated institutions were.

Simon Hoggart

Jim Sheridan, the MP who wants to ban sketchwriters from the Commons for being rude about politicians, is a blithering idiot. Sorry, scrub that - clearly a very thoughtful person with whom I might conceivably disagree on some marginal issues. A blithering savant, perhaps.

The data aren't providing any reason for the Bank of Canada to pause. The risks are on the upside for rate increases. Investors are going to sell bonds.

The dangerous outburst of violence with numerous fatalities may kill off the sprouts of confidence that have emerged between the two sides in the course of the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and parts of the West Bank and may endanger prospects for further progress toward a settlement.

The decision by the unions is unfortunate, but it clearly underlines the need for a level playing field. This affirms the need for a ban on smoking in all public places.

The department obviously has a concern about the safety issues, as well as the snowmobile going into the water and fuel seepage. But for now there are no plans I know of to ban skipping.

We have not be notified of an imminent bankruptcy filing. I would hope they would notify us if something was going to be filed. As far as those reports, I certainly think the company is trying to get plan B put together just in case.

We haven't had a big bruiser that can bang around like that in a while. We can match up in the post better now. In the past, we've had to work in practice every week on coming off of people to double down on the post.

Ben Bernanke

Banks need to continue to lend to creditworthy borrowers to earn a profit and remain strong.

Ben Bernanke

The Federal Reserve has never suffered any losses in the course of its normal lending to banks and, now, to primary dealers.

Ben Bernanke

History proves... that a smart central bank can protect the economy and the financial sector from the nastier side effects of a stock market collapse.

Stephen Hawking

Our minds work in real time, which begins at the Big Bang and will end, if there is a Big Crunch - which seems unlikely, now, from the latest data showing accelerating expansion. Consciousness would come to an end at a singularity.