Famous Quotes & Sayings

The timing is a big deal. No one will be banging on any doors. By that point, everyone will be tired and running on adrenaline. It seemed like a good way to wind down.

The time to sell debt is approaching. The production data showed Japan's economy is expanding and it may give the central bank more confidence to change policy. Bonds will probably stay heavy.

The time has come to look at whether New York banking has become anti-competitive. A merger of this size is something that low-income neighborhoods cannot afford. We've had more than enough.

Is the business that they're trying to get into related to what they have done in the past? Are they going from being a banker to running a pizza place?

Bill Mumy

I started writing songs when I was 11, and I started playing in bands when I was 14 and learned the rest from jamming with other players.

Elliott Abrams

Israel will not and should not leave until it is clear that the West Bank can be policed by Palestinians and that the region will not be a source of terrorism against Israel, as Gaza and South Lebanon became when Israel left there.

ISPs can sell bandwidth to us at a 100 percent margin.

Is she going to be a match or is she going to be a candle? Is she going to flame out or is she going to be able to light up the arena? I'm banking on candle.

What unnerved the market the most and will continue to keep moving it was Greenspan's comments about the treasury market, ... The comments basically took a lot of financial stocks off guard, all the banks and brokers. That paired with PPI created a bit of a panic.

We were only a four-piece for about six months. We were a three-piece before that, and we're back to a three-piece. It's just a lot more comfortable that way. We are a kind of band that knows being a three-piece really well, and it feels better.

Kofi Annan

What happens in the West Bank is very much on our mind, ... For us, the Quartet, it's Gaza first and then the next stage will be the West Bank, not Gaza first and Gaza last.

John Roberts

What got the market going was the talk about the Californian utilities and banks being in trouble, and then the equity market rolled over and started trading pretty crummy.

What GM gets in changes in the jobs bank is likely going to be based on compromises they are willing to make elsewhere. The fact that they are talking about this so early is unusual and shows how important it is.

What banks have essentially done is put ATMs in people's living rooms. The security is only as good as that of the home computer.

U.K. data has been weaker than expected, but investors don't believe this will be enough to persuade the bank to cut rates. This leaves gilts vulnerable.

Miller has clearly chosen bankruptcy over collective bargaining to restructure the company. Delphi is using a bankruptcy judge to begin moving in the direction of Chinese wages and benefits.

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.

We teach them what a bank is . . . How to do your housekeeping. We teach them the bus routes and how to get around the city to get to their jobs.

We spent about a month in the studio living and working in a farmhouse outside of Raleigh. In the process, we learned a lot about recording and about the dynamics of our band in the studio.

We don't try to box ourselves in to one type of music. A lot is dictated by what the local bands are producing.

We certainly do think there are another two (rate hikes) left in the Bank of Canada before they tag out.

This is the time of year all the Wall Street bankers and traders basically know where they stand inside their organization. They've been given their bonuses, they've either been promoted or nor promoted, so it's a time when everybody considers what their options may be.

This is the second time in a couple of years that a limousine has been used as a getaway car in a bank robbery. I've been doing this job a long time and nothing surprises me any more.

This may be the realization after a long period of time that gold is no longer the bedrock of the world's financial system. And if it's no longer required as a reserve currency, then it makes sense for central banks to reduce their holdings of gold and convert to more profitable investments.

This machine is a joke. It sets us back a long way. We've done a lot to hinder the negative effects of alcohol. It's just not a smart thing and should be banned nationwide.

This lending has been lucrative to banks here. The housing market has been vibrant.

Adam Cole

This left orders in the fourth quarter up an impressive 4.1% quarter-on-quarter and points to strong capital spending in the early months of 2006, which will likely make the Bank of Japan that much more confident that the time is approaching to start removing its ultra-easy monetary policy.

Jonathan Adelstein

This is truly a banner commitment for the wireless broadband industry.