Famous Quotes & Sayings

Laurence Tribe

The Constitution grants only Congress - not the president - the power 'to borrow money on the credit of the United States.'

Bill Clinton

We have never done this before. Never in the history of our republic have we ever financed a conflict, military conflict, by borrowing money from somewhere else.

G-Eazy

When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.

When you're working at the forefront of creative design, you have to borrow from history. The trick is to draw from a past era and reinterpret it.

Natalie Massenet

I borrowed a creaky laptop from my husband, went into the web, and never came back.

Will Rogers

What he needs is some way to pay back. Not some way to borrow more.

J. C. Watts

Wait until the paperwork is delivered before going out and borrowing more.

We're concerned for borrowers because they may not fully understand what may happen. In three or five years, we may be in a different credit cycle and they may not be able to refinance as easily as they expected.

Isabella Rossellini

The red carpet has become like a parallel business. The next day, there are TV programmes, and magazines, and it's all, 'Do you like the dress or not like the dress?' and 'Did she look fat?' To keep borrowing dresses and jewellery is like a full-time job. And you have to be a fantasy, which you can never be, so you always feel depressed.

Charles Farrar Browne

Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.

The professional fees helped Delta borrow the money that it needs to turn the company around, because without financing you're out of business.

Ken Mehlman

We've suffered a war, and one thing we know: Whenever our nation's faced war, whether it was in the 1980s when we were winning the Cold War or in the 1940s during World War II, the responsible thing to do has been to borrow money to win the war.

When I heard Evans on radio saying I borrowed money from him, I was most embarrassed.

Shooters start with borrowed weapons and seniors are more than willing to oblige and #8230; the sense of well-being pervades everywhere.

There is no doubt the government will have to borrow to finance the salaries and this is destructive economically.

Sugar Ray Leonard

I watched Ali, studied Ali, and I studied Sugar Ray Robinson. I watched them display showmanship. I watched them use pizzazz, personality, and charisma. I took things from them and borrowed things from them because boxing is entertainment.

When we see the earnings coming across, you're really going to look to the exposure that these companies have to higher energy and higher borrowing costs.

Seymour Cassel

Many people came out and said, 'Boy I'd love to make a film that way.' Well, borrow some money, get some people together - you can get people to work for nothing, just treat them right, treat them as human beings, not stars, give them all an equal share, make them feel a part of what they're doing. There's no big secret to it.

Wislawa Szymborska

Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light.

I started with no money. I had to borrow money in the beginning. I'm always a dreamer. I dream and envision what to do, then my wife will help me realize those dreams. I always conceptualize.

This is our 40th year in business. We don't have a single penny from outside investors, and we never borrowed heavily from the banks. We have a healthy balance sheet and more credit than we can use.

We're living on borrowed time. We have to demonstrate what we can do on our own before it is taken out of our hands.

Kevin McCloud

We are borrowing money from future generations. We are borrowing the carbon impact, the resource impact from future generations to get stuff cheap now. We have swept the dirt and dust from our society under the carpet - but this carpet is on other side of the planet.

Alan Greenspan

One of the major problems with China is that its innovation is largely borrowed technology.

There is less enthusiasm to borrow and we think that is going to translate into lower consumer spending. In fact, 19 percent of Americans now say they are worried about making their monthly payments.

Cecily von Ziegesar

I went to Colby College in Waterville, ME and did picture it when I was writing 'Cum Laude.' So many of the physical details were included, like the loop where people jogged. The story of the chapel is also borrowed from Colby... but the students and cast of characters are fictional.

We don't have that kind of borrowing power.

Hesham Qandil

We want to increase our investment so the next year we'll borrow less. We want to make sure that we provide more jobs for our people. We need to bring fresh money.

We don't inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children

We begged, borrowed and stole $40,000 to finance the project.

Ben Bernanke

The decline in home equity makes it more difficult for struggling homeowners to refinance and reduces the financial incentive of stressed borrowers to remain in their homes.

Beverly Cleary

I haven't been very enthusiastic about the commercialization of children's literature. Kids should borrow books from the library and not necessarily be buying them.

Ken Norton

Right now I'm scrambling to see if we can borrow sousaphones. You just can't all of a sudden go out and pick one up.