Quotes About Bank

When the bank asks me about my assets, I include my friendship with Regis Philbin.

You have to remember: what are incomes to banks are outgoes to families.

On a knoll in the marshes stand the ruins of an old croft-house. This knoll is perhaps only in a certain sense the work of nature; perhaps it is much rather the work of long dead peasants who built their homes there on the grassy bank by the brook, generation after generation, one on the other's ruins.

I stood in a maze line formed by crushed-velvet ropes and waited my turn. It reminded me of visiting a bank in the days before ATMs. The woman in front of me sported a business suit—at midnight—and big enough bags under her eyes to be mistaken for a bellhop. Behind me, a man with curly hair and dark sweats whipped out a cell phone and started pressing buttons.

Actually, my mom doesn't let me touch any of my money out of my bank. She says she is going to keep it there until I am 18, and I don't think anyone can touch that. No money has been taken out of there.

Manhattan, after eight years here, still reminds me of Hong Kong. There are parts of Chinatown that are the spit and image of streets in Wan Chai, and I am held in thrall by the Chrysler building as much as I was by I.M. Pei's Bank of China Tower.

Because I came from a small town outside Glasgow, nobody from my school had ever gone into the acting profession. It was just something you didn't do. You joined the bank or became a teacher or whatever you did.

Prior to the 2008 recession, many financial institutions were engaging in 'proprietary lending,' where a bank would invest funds for its own gain instead of earning revenue through commission by trading on behalf of clients.

Ryanair had managed to strike a deal on eleven Boeing 737 aircraft that were all ten years old and had to put down $20m from its own coffers as a one-third deposit on the finance lease. The rest was to be paid off over the next five years with bank loans from New York, leaving the airline with fairly modest cash reserves. Ryanair,

It's all about judging, I said. I'm not sure I'm the judge type. I might be more of the criminal type. Judgement is power, he said.

I could bring you up on charges for that. What? Work harassment in the sexual place.

Well, for one thing, she said, her knowledge of punctuation begins and ends with her own beauty mark.

Good'? my aunt said. Children are good. Dogs are good. This is theater, Jane.

I was born five days before D-Day in 1944. My father was a mechanical engineer, which was a reserved occupation, so he didn't have to enlist. My mother was a housewife. She worked in a bank before marrying my father.

Editors of conservative magazines aren't out trying to raise money. The money is there; the cash reserves are in the bank.

And let the Fed sell bonds to bring bank reserves back down to required reserve levels, so we have restraint on bank lending and bank issuances of liability.

I logged into my bank accounts, and they were all seized, all frozen. So that was a pretty clear indication that I was in big trouble.

If you tell stories you love, you will never tell them with indifference - take it to the bank.

My dad read history, about a book a day, but only after he retired as a successful bank and insurance man.

It was always the intention that Shriram would have started a bank at some point.

To the extent that bank panics interfere with normal flows of credit, they may affect the performance of the real economy.

The first interview I went on I got at age 5. It was a commercial for First Federal Bank.

The urge to travel feels magnetic. Two of my favorite words are linked: departure time. And travel whets the emotions, turns upside down the memory bank, and the golden coins scatter.

The lady at the bank asked, "What do you want on your checks: wildlife, scenery?" I said, "I want a picture of a big, thick-necked guy on my checks. What's that? A bouncer, that's what my checks are going to be."