Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris King

The more deviant you can be, the better. Kids love to see you get kicked out of places. I, personally, am banned from Nassau County in New York.

The months of October and November were terrific for Jefferson Parish -- on both banks of the river. They were selling record numbers.

The money you pay to the bank as interest has zero percent chance of it returning back to you. Save on that and reinvest that on any other things. Now that is lean financial management.

During preseason we looked up at the banner in the gym and realized that we needed to start putting numbers back on it, ... It was pretty pathetic.

The technologies which seem to be receiving interest from the Bank include those with damaging social and environmental impacts, such as nuclear, large dams and so-called 'clean coal'. It is widely understood that these technologies will not help to bring people out of poverty, which is the World Bank's mission.

The targets of $600 to $625 are more and more a reality and mostly justified as concerns on inflation, geopolitical pressures in the Middle East and now with rates at comfortable levels, central bankers are stuck in a rock and a hard place.

The system was academically and financially bankrupt before the storm. We think there were a lot of good teachers and administrators working in the system, but there was just a lot of mismanagement.

The survey seems to be a little bit worse than people had anticipated. It does show that the manufacturing sector is struggling under the weight of the strong pound. It shows a squeeze on profit margins. It will raise a little bit of doubt about whether the Bank of England will have the courage to raise interest rates next week.

The surge in personal bankruptcy started a few years ago and has been building,

Isabella Bird

The Tigris is so fierce and rapid, and swallows its alluvial banks so greedily, that it is probable that some of the buildings described by the Hebrew traveller Benjamin of Tudela as existing in the twelfth century were long since carried away.

Khaleda Zia

The three-decade-long history has proved that Bangladesh is a close and friendly neighbor and a reliable friend of China,

Michael Spencer

The three central banks seemed to be more inclined to intervene in the market while the Bank of Korea over the year or so intervened less.

The threat of a smoking ban is clouding the issue, and it is wise to remain cautious.

Jason Isbell

The south is very focused on family... the musical heritage of Muscle Shoals especially and the bands from the region.

Alexandra Adornetto

The South is full of memories and ghosts of the past. For me, it is the most inspiring place to write, from William Faulkner's haunted antebellum home to the banks of the Mississippi to the wind that whispers through the cotton fields.

Neil Finn

The thing about bands is they sometimes go through hard times but they see it through. This is the line-up that saw it through.

The thing that has to be done ? the final nail of the coffin ? is to ban the trade of American pit bull terriers, ... In other words you can't buy one because it is illegal.

Art Alexakis

I've always kind of been a little skeptical about bands that won't play their hits. That's really arrogant to me as a music fan. I do want to hear obscure songs, but like most people, I want to hear the hits, so we always play them.

Laura Mvula

I've always had this passion to be creative, and wanted to sing or be in bands and make music, but I didn't have ideas as to what format it'd be, or how I'd do it. I'm not very good with plans. I didn't think it would be me at the front, either. In fact, I'd go as far as saying that was something I'd prevent.

Rob Thomas

I used to do lots of coke. ... You'd be tired and you'd do it just to stay out and go to bars and meet girls and have a good time. ... There's a two-year period at the beginning of this band that I don't even remember. I can't even imagine what the shows were like.

(I've) already got good response to it, got several sponsors here in town (who are) going to jump on the bandwagon and be part of it.

I've always been interested in finance and I enjoy numbers, but more importantly I enjoy people and the banking business is all about people and relationships.

I wanted the band to be more than what we were, and I think we really could have accomplished more in the future. Unfortunately, things changed and we decided just to pursue other opportunities.

Don Davis

I wanted to do what they have at the bank for my house. I wound up with something better.

Gavin Rossdale

I wanted to do something a little bit harder than Bush, ... It's got a paranoid edge to it. It's a pretty difficult transition to go from my band Bush to this new terrain, this whole other world.

Raina Telgemeier

I wanted to be into fashion, but I was never the kind of person who could keep up with fashion trends, and I could never style my hair the way everyone else's was - my hair was very thin, so I couldn't do, like, the sprayed bangs everyone else was into.

Jim Calhoun

Thank god we have him. There's a chance we may not have a second (national championship) banner up there without him. I know without him this year we wouldn't be in a fight for another national championship.

Sometimes you have to have loss leaders. Bands that are quite creative and quite hip. We've always had good ideas of what we do, a vision of how we want to be presented. Virgin has always stuck by that. Some bands are dictated to by their record companies, you know?

Some traders are locking in profits from their bets on a reduction in the yield difference. They may be thinking that the market has already priced in the likely level of Bank of Japan rate increases this year.

Sometimes you're better to be lucky than good, right? Yeah, you bank a shot in like that and its luck. But these kids don't quit. If you keep hanging in there and working hard sometimes the lucky guy wins.

Technology is changing at warp speed. If you were to disappear and come back after 90 days, the Net would have doubled, bandwidth would have increased by a third, and there would be a half a dozen innovations you would have missed.

Ten out of ten banks will underwrite their home loan in the same way, to protect themselves, but does that mean as a consumer, you can do nothing about it?

Duff McKagan

I've played Albuquerque before. I was there with my college band Loaded; I think we played the Launchpad. We're doing an hour set for Ozzfest.