Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edith Wharton

It would presently be his task to take the bandage from this young woman's eyes, and bid her look forth on the world. But how many generations of the women who had gone to her making had descended bandaged to the family vault? He shivered a little, remembering some of the new ideas in his scientific books, and the much-cited instance of the Kentucky cave-fish, which had ceased to develop eyes because they had no use for them.

Bobby Cox

It wouldn't stop bleeding. It just kept going. We couldn't bandage it.

It wouldn't be a surprise if one of the smaller UK banks got bought, but Northern Rock have always had a disciplined organic growth investment model of their own, so it would be something new for them.

Robert Blake

It would mean a lot to me if you would sign it and get my lawyers off my back, ... All it says is you're not going to open any illegal bank accounts.

Patti Smith

It would go back and forth between the two of us and then it would go over here and bang its head on the steps trying to break the glass off.

I understand that college students do more than just study with their internet, but we just don't physically have enough bandwidth to provide much more than critical services.

I understand overseas there are various methods they have from banning people to go to soccer matches for example.

Caitlyn Jenner

I used to play a lot of tennis and then, next thing you know, same thing with tennis. That banging on the knees, the jarring, twisting motion - I couldn't do it. All of a sudden, every time I played, my knee would swell up.

I use Sand Hill as an insurance policy. Unregulated means speed. Speed is 90 percent of the game for Sand Hill. Most banks just move slow.

I used to work in recoveries for bankruptcy cases: searching and locating missing assets. Having grown up around those things, I find them very interesting.

Felix Silla

I've never had any desire to be 6 feet tall. I'd go around banging my head.

The zoning board did its job. We heard from all the parties and there were a lot of residents worried about it. After careful consideration, the board concluded that this was not an appropriate location for a stand-alone bank and it would not be beneficial to the borough of Westwood.

Things would have turned out better if the Nazi Party had been decisively banned in the 1920s and did not have the chance to bring a racist and anti-Semitic ideology to power successfully.

Things were very quiet. The market was (pushed) up by the joint venture between Fuji Bank and Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank. That was all it needed.

They are another example of a company that started out in a relatively stronger financial position than their peers, and they felt they were in better position to survive a shakeout. They didn't pursue cost-cutting as aggressively as they would have if they were heading toward bankruptcy early in the (industry's) downturn.

They are all jumping on the band wagon. They have an issue with more meat than they had before.

They are a band of brothers, and they all seem to want it this year.

The whole objective is to improve corporate governance and the banking sector is first because it is a key sector.

The whole name of the game in banking right now is trying to generate high-interest-yielding assets. That's what the credit card business is. Everyone has these deposits right now. They have to put them to work.

The wind is at their back in many of their businesses. We're seeing out of the investment banks good capital markets business.

They accomplished a big, big goal. You get to hang a banner on the wall in the gym. Jessica (Durr) will have three up there. You did something to create a legacy.

The way it's looking, we're probably going to be under a burn ban until we get significant rains in the spring or summer, if we even get them then.

Eliot Spitzer

The word 'fraud' will be in some of the documents that are the settlement documents, ... I believe very deeply that at its root what was going on with the analysts and the investment bankers was probably the largest fraud ever committed upon the investing public.

Mark E. Smith

The wonderful thing about Louisiana is we fish, and we tend to band together and help one another. We hope to see huge numbers of volunteers.

Elizabeth Warren

The women who file for bankruptcy played by all the rules, but they are still in economic freefall.

The vile blackmail by a band of criminal kidnappers must not be given the dignity of a political response. Italy is and must remain unified and together.

The World Bank will focus on developing Gaza Strip potential economy as well as on the bilateral economic relationship between Israel and the Palestinians,

Dambisa Moyo

The World Bank can only survive if it's spending money.

The risk assessments provide bankers with more flexibility to tailor security measures to better safeguard their customers . . . than would a mandate from regulators,

There will be serious repercussions in terms of community relations if this ban goes ahead,

The same people are the ones going out their banging it out every meet. Maybe we have too many people standing around and watching. We need to make some changes.

The sale of securities products by banks is being reshaped as we speak in Washington, however in all instances the states want to insure that individual investors are protected,

The sale is probably the last one by a major bank, making it positive for the banking stocks overall.