Famous Quotes & Sayings

Larry Walker

Your band is going to a local restaurant to get the waste oil to run its engine, there's folks down in New York City very interested in that.

This is a really stunning retreat in retail sales. It reinforces our belief that the Bank of England is too optimistic about consumer spending.

This is a proud time for the Reynoldsburg band program. Rarely does a small community like ours have the opportunity to be recognized by another country.

This is exactly what the Reserve Bank wants because increased investment reduces inflationary pressure and will help build capacity.

Mike Malone

This is good news. It's certainly no surprise to us, but it reinforces what we've been saying n we think housing is a good value here. The cost of housing can be one of the largest expenses to families, so it's always good to get more bang for the buck.

This is good for the company. It provides for future funding and it gets us out of bankruptcy sooner than we anticipated. It will be a seamless transition.

This is going to be a very, very long and painful process. In the next five years, all the mainline carriers will have been in bankruptcy at least once.

This is going to be a very, very long and painful process, ... In the next five years, all the mainline carriers will have been in bankruptcy at least once.

This is a supportive report for Bank of Canada's 'modest' rate hike plans -- good growth, but lower imported costs.

This is the fourth Blue Star Banner ceremony that we have all participated in here in Pawling, and basically before, we have not had the soldiers with us, except in a few rare cases. It is very gratifying to see you here this evening, and to be able to thank you and your families personally for your service.

Keith Davis

This is the first time we have a headliner that isn't from the Golden Triangle. These guys are a great band and they were really excited to help out.

Jeff Davis

They have been opportunistic when opportunities present themselves ... they've probably got a couple dozen banks within the footprint that they have a high interest in if they were to sell.

They have a lovely new banquet facility. They are also a chamber member and we like to support our chamber members.

They don't try to be Wal-Mart. Small banks recognize they need to specialize, rather than try to offer the full range of products. And specialization leads to more efficiencies.

They hadn't done bank records, so nobody could tell you exactly how much cash they had on hand. Nobody could reconcile the payroll accounts. Nobody could tell you how many employees they had.

They had nice size, in the (game) and on the bench as well. Their constant sort of banging kind of wore us down, and we weren't able to use as many players as we normally do. We've seen a lot quicker guards, so that wasn't really a big difference. We just wore down, especially inside.

They had a banner with names of people who scored 1,000 points. I never imagined that I would be doing that.

They got us pretty good the first time. But we learned a lot from that loss. We're just going to try and bang with those guys, be physical and come out with a win.

They didn't set the pipe as much as the first time we played them. It took us out of our game. We were still bunching. The lack of pipe setting, it opened the way for them to bang (spikes down) the line on us. We weren't able to get out there on the pin.

They filed for bankruptcy some months ago, so this is something that is not completely unexpected, though we had hoped they would be able to work through their business issues and keep going.

The yen's strength is a shackle for the central bank that keeps it from shifting monetary policy. There's a risk bond yields will decline in the long run.

The yen is weakening so much versus other currencies. The pace of decline of the yen is causing stress and strain within Asia, where central banks may be showing some concern.

The yen is benefiting from a reversal of bets on yen-carry trades on concern the New Zealand dollar will fall. The unwinding of that trade also is going on amid speculation the central bank is getting closer to raising rates.

The Yellowstone River is a national treasure, but building these homes right on the river sets the table for massive bank stabilization and flood control projects in the future, and wrecks the very reason people want to live there in the first place.

The year 2006...is also the last transition year after China's World Trade Organization entry for the domestic banking sector. Doing good work this year in banking supervision has special and important meaning.

They are back here again, hundreds of them. Swallows barn swallows, tree swallows, banks swallows, rough wing swallows all birds that normally would have gone a long time ago.

You can't help but think about it. Especially the seniors, it's the one banner we haven't been able to hang so far.

This ought not be a debt that is subject to the bankruptcy proceeding.

This might be a slight dollar negative. The key was the core which was bang on expectations at 0.2 percent. So there's not much inflation there.

This means we left our mark on Burgettstown basketball. The section title will be up there on a banner for us to share with the school.

This means that these 18 countries should only be the beginning, ... The World Bank and IMF should extend debt cancellation to all poor countries if they are serious about poverty alleviation.

There was speculation more members would vote for a shift in monetary policy. The bank decided to keep policy with a 7-2 majority and that will make people feel comfortable purchasing bonds.

There was so much excitement for music at the time, and much of it had to do with the Beatles. The Beatles inspired probably more bands than we will ever know, and they certainly inspired me.