Famous Quotes & Sayings

I couldn't sleep for three, four months in the night time. Every half an hour, they come and bang on the door. They kick on my leg shackles, and I had a deep cut.

Ideally, a band or somebody in the business is following up on something that?s already started. If there are relationships that are already in place, that?s when it works best for people.

I'd been in bands for 30 years. When I met Len, I knew that he had it. I had no idea what it was, but his songs really spoke to me. I'm here because I want to be. You know, stories about lost love and broken hearts have been done a million times in country music, but there's a special quality to the way Len writes about it. It touches me, and it touches my soul.

I'd be awfully surprised if the Federal Reserve starts taking its cue from the central bank of Sweden or the Bank of England.

Brandi Chastain

I create tension on the elastic band by moving away from the person who's holding it, and I maintain that tension while jumping up to head the ball. It works my legs and core while also working on balance. You feel it helping on the field when you're going up for a header or when an opponent is pulling or pushing to gain position.

Christine McVie

I cover most of the sound that we use on records with what I have. And people tell us that we still sound pretty big for a band with four instrumentalists.

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.

Michael Franti

I came up playing in both punk rock bands and hip-hop bands, and I found a more universal way of reaching people, especially with music that has a message to it.

I am expecting 200 people. The banquet facility can hold 300 people, so I am expecting a good turnout.

I am excited by Bank One's powerful franchise. Together, we will help our stock realize its value as we continue the momentum of our three strong lines of business and continue to rebuild our large credit card business.

Richard Byrd

I am delighted to join an institution that is so passionate about helping its clients, ... City National is clearly the place to be for superior private banking and wealth management services.

Phil Davis

I am always banging on about Welsh rugby over here,

We've seen a dramatic increase, particularly at small banks. Larger banks are putting more effort on stopping these guys, so where do they go? Smaller institutions." ()

Robert Rubin

We very strongly want to see good financial services modernization legislation passed this year, ... The bill that came out of the Senate banking committee does not meet these requisites.

Charles Kettering

Bankers regard research as most dangerous a thing that makes banking hazardous due to the rapid changes it brings about in industry.

Bonnie Raitt

The fifth member of my band is my non-profit work.

Conan O'Brien

Dropkick Murphys, everybody! That's a band!

Dwyane Wade

A Tom Ford three-piece makes you feel so confident, it's bananas.

Courtney Barnett

I definitely grew up on a lot of American bands. I didn't really know that there were any decent Australian bands until I was around 20.

Henry Garza

We used to be invited on stage with our father's band to sing that song when we were children,

We should see interesting performance jumps at very low power. The biggest bang for the buck should be in portable video.

Lamar S. Smith

We should not encourage lawsuits that blame others for our own choices and could bankrupt an entire industry.

We need banks and financiers and entrepreneurs to take risks because that's how economies grow over time.

Elizabeth Warren

Wall Street banks have the right to express their views to lawmakers and regulators through lobbying, but the law is clear: If they want to influence lawmakers, they must disclose their lobbying expenditures.

Brian Posehn

I'm doing a pilot for Comedy Central with the band Steel Panther. They're faux heavy metal. They started as kind of a tribute band out here, or a cover band, and they're funny guys, and they just sort of morphed into their own thing.

Bobby McFerrin

Then I left that school and I went to Cerritos College, which was in southern California; they had one of the best big band programs in the country at the time.

Adelbert von Chamisso

My vanity was flattered by having been mistaken for our revered sovereign. I ordered a banquet to be got ready for the following evening, under the trees before my house, and invited the whole town.

Seamus Heaney

To encounter 'Beowulf' is like taking a sledgehammer to a quarry face. You must bang in there.

Seth Shostak

Sure, nobody will make a fortune if we figure out why the Big Bang happened. But just about everyone would like to know.

Seth Shostak

America's popular heroes have seldom been its great thinkers, and even less its scientists. The success of TV's 'Big Bang Theory,' which seems to give the lie to this claim, is more the exception that proves the rule.

Stephen Stills

After getting driven into the ground by the policies of the Bush administration, the economy is creeping up. It's doing that because people are sticking their shoulders to the wheel. Community banks are doing a lot of lending to small businesses and keeping them going.

Steve Jones

It's not every day you get to create a band like the Sex Pistols, and what it changed, on a musical level. I love that we've done something that was important.

Steve Aoki

I wrote probably my phattest banging record with Knife Party: 'Pile Driver.'