Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kenneth Posner

Payment associations have market power because they are owned and controlled by groups of banks. The public MasterCard would have independent directors and a governance system that would make it clear that it would not be attempting to collude in setting an interchange fee.

Tom Benson

Our main concern is with the people of Louisiana and the Gulf Coast region who have experienced the recent tragedy. We are attempting to carry on in these difficult times and are looking out for the best interest of our coaches, staff, players and their families. My prayers are with each of those who have been adversely impacted.

Bill Thomas

People inside the house have stated she was banging on the door, attempting to regain entry.

William Harper

Our working figure is 30 to 35,000 attempting to enter at this point. And we're hearing that there are thousands of people on the other side waiting. We can't go over there and look, but we hear that there's a lot of people on the other side of the border, trying to get into Macedonia.

Charles Grassley

Ottumwa Regional Hospital and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Regional Office are attempting to work through the issues at hand. It is very rare for CMS to withdraw Medicare funding due to these types of violations, especially when the hospital is working to correct them. And, it is my understanding that the hospital will be submitting a plan of correction to CMS shortly.

Bob Stoops

Just because what we've done in the past has worked and worked well doesn't mean that it will continue to. We have really got to be smart in what we're attempting to do. We need to make some adjustments and make sure we can execute certain parts of our passing game more consistently.

Mark Driver

Java Studio Creator 2 is an update to Sun's Java Studio product, which is a new generation tool attempting to simplify Java development. Java Studio Creator 2 is trying to make the Java platform more attractive to developers coming from a Microsoft Windows or 4GL tool environment.

Mike Edwards

Landscape projects are expensiveespecially if you'd like to do a nice landscape like they are attempting to do all over campus.

Don Knauss

Litigation is completely inappropriate and unfounded in light of the ongoing discussions between the company and all our bottlers to respond to a major customer's request for the benefit of everyone. We are extremely disappointed that a few individuals are attempting to hijack those discussions.

Stephen Greene

Regulators can't regulate the banking sector by themselves. They need the market.

Stephen Greene

Regulators can't regulate the banking sector by themselves, ... They need the market.

William Warlick

Relative to the bankrupt carriers, this is a fairly strong liquidity position, but obviously they face cash flow pressures.

Pat Lewis

Relationships with our customers have never been better. We made the investment into their emotional bank accounts, and they are paying the dividends with their increased frequency and ticket averages. It truly is a win-win relationship.

Stephen Walters

Parts of the economy are still doing well, with mining booming and that's generating jobs. I do think that employment growth will slow this year and that will be enough to keep the central bank on the sidelines.

Dana Hurst

Our loan officers were seeing women coming into the bank struggling to be successful in business. We realized we weren't seeing a lot of men coming in with struggles.

Karen Rugen

Our lead banks support the plan and we believe the plan is in the best interest of our other lenders, so we expect to get all the approvals we need.

Paul Foster

Option market makers and hedgers are pricing in the possibility of (Delphi) filing for bankruptcy before October 17.

Keith Leggett

People need to choose the risk and savings instruments that are right for them. If a person is very risk averse, then bank deposits are very attractive.

Tim Schuldt

Regardless of how things are going, it's prudent for us to see what the market will bear. We've had a couple of calls to say other parties are interested in our rights.

Diane Watson

Refugees' calls up to mind that people come from different lands and have to be taken care of, ... These are American citizens.

Diane Watson

Refugee' calls up to mind people that come from different lands and have to be taken care of. These are American citizens,

Steve Groene

Release them in a safe area, where the law enforcement can find them. Call the help line, let them know they can be found. Please, we need the safe return of those children,

Amy Olson

Our rent calls have really gone up. People pay their heat and can't pay their rent, or pay their rent and can't pay their heat.

Jonathan Kozol

Our political establishment refuses to use the word 'segregated.' They call the schools diverse, which means half black, half Hispanic, and maybe two white kids and three Asians. 'Diverse' has become a synonym for 'segregated.'

Jennifer Beals

Originally, I got a phone call from Campbell Scott saying that he was doing this movie and that there was this part that he wanted me to play in it.

Mike Flanagan

Pattern modeling is very useful and a major step, but users don't always conform to those patterns. For example, when there is a specific event like a traffic jam or a big rugby game there is a big spike in mobile phone calls in a concentrated area. Traditional network design can't cope with those changes in network usage very well.

Dave Schultz

Pat has kind of worked his way into some minutes because he's relentless. We call him a kamikaze because he's fearless out there, so Grinnell's style fit him perfectly.

Melanie Balcomb

Rebounding was a huge concern. We worked hard on checking them out and not being able to hurt us on the offensive boards.

Larry Cox

Previously, there was no way for our customers to check on the status of flights from our Web site. Now, our customers have a convenient and fun way to check on flight information without having to scroll through the Web pages of individual airlines.

Larry Coker

Our players have checked in, and we start practice tomorrow. We're very excited about it, but more important, the players are excited. ... Now it's time for practice. It's time for football.

Hugh Johnson

Ordinarily you would expect the stock market to rise or do better, but it's not, and I think the reason it's not is it's being held in check by high oil prices.

Paul Denham

Our local laws officer checked and wrote out the ticket at the rear of the vehicle and placed the ticket from the passenger side on the windscreen,

Jay LaBonte

People have developed a false sense of security when it comes to checks. They feel check fraud is something that happens to someone else.

Paolo Bonaiuti

Such a tiny difference necessitates a scrupulous checking of the counting.

Kim Ens

Stay away from people that are coughing, just like with anything else, or sneezing. And if you're having symptoms go get it checked out.

Gary Orfield

Statistics greatly underestimate dropout rates because they rely on school principals who weren't checking on them. When students disappeared, the principals just wrote them as transfers.

Bob DiBiasio

Our female market demographic research showed there were 200 percent more women watching Indians games last season. Grady is the big reason. It's manifested in the 'Mrs. Sizemore' T-shirts.

Serena Williams

I'm here to play female tennis. I've never been involved in men's tennis. . . . I wouldn't be tempted.

Carrie Fisher

Females get hired along procreative lines. After 40, we're kind of cooked.

Michael Chiklis

I was actually a little nervous when the female horse got shot,

Alaina Huffman

I think the type of actor I am, I tend to play strong leading female characters. The shows I've been on happen to be science fiction genre.

Angelle Sampey

That was awesome. I was really hoping it was going to happen (having three female winners).

Carrie Underwood

I was hoping for new female vocalist and that's all I was really hanging my hopes on. This is a monumental moment for me, a milestone in my life and my career.

Susanna Moore

It is possible to say that all of my books concern themselves with the notion of what it means to be female - whether it is in New York City in 2000 or Calcutta in 1836. In that way, my books really are the same.

L'Aura Goldner

Growing up, there were two ghosts in my house, a male and female. They hung out in the basement. The male was more frightening, but the female was good.

Scott Kaden

Our resorts have all had a very strong March, a very wintry March. The mountains are still getting significant snowfall.

Cynthia Morgan

Respondents in the mountain states -- where self-employed technologists are proportionately rare -- were the most optimistic, regionally.

Rep. Chalk

I think you all are making a mountain out of a molehill. I don't know there was anything she said that was not the truth.

E. Hicks

We may never find it. It may be on the top of another mountain by now.

Lindsay Lewis

I was relieved. We're all like 5-4, 5-5, so they're like mountains to us.

Carl von Clausewitz

A general who allows himself to be decisively defeated in an extended mountain position deserves to be court-martialled.

Mayor Mavis

Mount Vernon has always been very supportive of the program.

Chuck Tursky

Mount Pleasant has a solid team from top to bottom. They have the most solid lineup of any team in the WPIAL.

Sheldon Souray

Now we have a big mountain to climb, and the road is going to be tough.

Kelly Downard

I think the recommendation will probably be received favorably. We don't have one.

Robert Lawson

I was unaware of water in garages in The Vineyards until I received these letters. That's disturbing.

Hariadi Wibisono

I have just received confirmation from Hong Kong.

Christian Winthrop

He has received a lot of support from Yonkers and Westchester. A lot of them were contributions that were under $200 that were not itemized.

Dimieari Kemedi

Most of these militants received their first weapon from the ruling party.

Nyoman Kandun

We have just received the results (from the WHO) and they are positive.

Heber J. Grant

Let every Latter-day Saint give value received for everything he gets, whether it be in work, or whatever he does.

Horton Foote

I've lived long enough to know things go in and out of fashion, and things not well received now can be totally reversed years later.

Richard McGinn

I think we're doing a lot of things well, and I think it's been received well on the street, ... Street Sweep.

Hiroyuki Hosoda

I think the ruling recognized the government's stance and its assertions.

Ted Nelson

The only ones those certifications are recognized by are the associations who give them.

David Boreanaz

I seem to get recognized more in London and Europe than over here in the States.

Loretta Lynch

Everyone wants to be seen. Everyone wants to be heard. Everyone wants to be recognized as the person that they are and not a stereotype or an image.

Allison Tolman

I haven't been recognized out in public or anything. The strangeness of celebrity has been relegated to Twitter, which is kind of manageable.

John Eberle

The propeller sputtered and that was it ... we recognized it was an emergency.

A.J. Pierzynski

Yeah, I got recognized more at home. That's for sure.

Rick Comley

We wanted to get back to being a nationally recognized program. I think we're there.

Mike Zafirovski

This revenue is real - it was recognized in the wrong periods.

Jay Wright

Old school, split the house... It was cool.

Adrienne Rich

I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from "Splittings

Garcelle Beauvais

My parents split up when I was 3 years old, and I lived with my mother.

Brian McClung

We're not trying to split anything up. They're not together right now." ()

Kent Williams

Pam and I were worried that if it got in the wrong hands, the valley would be subdivided and split up,

Mariella Frostrup

My parents split up, and a lot of things going on in the outside world made me want to immerse myself in an alternative world.

Alice Cary

The attempt is all the wedge that splits its knotty way betwixt the impossible and possible.

Harold Washington

I am not interested in splitting the white vote.

Boy George

The band never actually split up - we just stopped speaking to each other and went our own separate ways.

Martin Parr

Photographers never want to talk about the fact that they may well be in decline. It's the greatest taboo subject of all.

Saint Ignatius

The wellbeing of the head resounds throughout the whole body, and as are the Superiors, so, in turn, will their subjects be.

Quiara Alegria Hudes

I'll kind of get interested in a subject and I won't know why. It'll be in my head for many years and I'll say, 'Do I know enough here to research?'

Joe Solmonese

I don't think it has anything to do with the subject matter.

Dan Smith

He was getting at a really important subject and he did it thoughtfully and gracefully.

Alan Simpson

Whatever he does, Dick will do it his own way, because whatever he does, it will be the subject of ridicule.

Robert Luskin

Mr. Rove is still a subject of the investigation.

Elizabeth Bowen

Writers do not find subjects; subjects find them.

Garry Wills

I don't really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require.