Top 100 A Bank Quotes
#1. Charity is not one of the virtues practiced on the stock market. The heart of a bank is but one of many viscera.
Honore De Balzac
#2. My parents wanted me to work in a bank or as an accountant.
Bruno Tonioli
#3. I saw a bank that said '24 Hour Banking,' but I didn't have that much time.
Steven Wright
#4. When I trade, I don't have an agency problem; I have my neck on the line. When a bank or banker trades, it's not his neck on the line.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#5. Being a [bank] director is like being a pilot of an aircraft - it's years of boredom and seconds of terror.
Moira Johnston
#6. I remember when I was growing up, you would go to a bank to open a deposit, and they'd give you a toaster. A free toaster. These days, if you're a company, and you go to a bank, they could easily turn you away! They don't want your deposits anymore.
Mohamed El-Erian
#7. You are then like an apparently poor person who does not know he has a bank account with $100 million in it and so his wealth remains an unexpressed potential.
Eckhart Tolle
#8. My dad's a jeweller, and my mom works for a bank.
Robbie Amell
#9. Weese was sprawled across the cobbles, his throat a red ruin, eyes gaping sightlessly up at a bank of grey cloud.
George R R Martin
#10. If the climate were a bank, they would already have saved it.
Hugo Chavez
#11. Oh. You're up," said Wednesday, putting his head around the door. "That's good. You want coffee? We're going to rob a bank.
Neil Gaiman
#12. The moon has set In a bank of jet That fringes the Western sky, The pleiads seven Have sunk from heaven And the midnight hurries by; My hopes are flown And, alas! alone On my weary couch I lie.
Sappho
#13. When a bank makes a loan, it simply adds to the borrower's deposit account by the amount of the loan. It does not take this money from anyone else's deposit; it was not previously paid in to the bank by anyone. It's new money, created by the bank for the use of the borrower.
Robert B. Anderson
#14. There is a theory that men do not need Paganism because they have endless avenues of societal power available. Why use spells when one can get a bank loan with little trouble? The world already bends over backward to accommodate men, so why perfect the art of magickally shaping it?
Thomm Quackenbush
#15. Generally in life, knowledge is acquired to be used. But school learning more often fits Freire's apt metaphor: knowledge is treated like money, to be put away in a bank for the future.
Seymour Papert
#17. Everyday is a bank account, and time is our currency. No one is rich, no one is poor, we've got 24 hours each.
Christopher Rice
#18. Value added is a meaningless concept for a retail business , for a bank, for a life insurance company, and for any other business which is not primarily engaged in manufacturing.
Peter Drucker
#19. Running a casino is like robbing a bank with no cops around. For guys like me, Las Vegas washes away your sins. It's like a morality car wash.
Robert De Niro
#20. I realized that after years of studying Shakespeare and Chekhov and regional repertory theater, what I really wanted to do was bust in and rob a bank and jump in the screaming getaway car and tear through the city and get in a shootout.
M. C. Gainey
#21. You can own an elephant or a bank or power thereof but if there's no personal breast bliss all you own is a lot of dead atoms and ideas.
Allen Ginsberg
#22. I didn't want to be thirtysomething and not know what I was going to do. I was quite afraid of that, there were quite a lot of aimless kids around, in that 'other' side of my life, who didn't really know what to do because they always had a bank balance to fall back on and they were quite lost.
Stella McCartney
#23. As long as I live I'll never forget the time he had a bank president pinched, or rather I did, on no evidence whatever except that the fountain pen on his desk was dry. I was never so relieved in my life as when the guy shot himself an hour later.
Rex Stout
#24. She had come into the garden expecting summer roses and had instead been caught in a bank of twisted, thorny, frostbitten vines.
Nenia Campbell
#25. Vegetables deplete soil. They're extractive. If soil has a bank account, vegetables make the largest withdrawals.
Dan Barber
#26. Seriously, I don't care if feminists hunt me down and burn me at the stake, that man crooked his finger at me, I'd follow him into a bank and rob it at his side.
Kristen Ashley
#27. Bringing 17 crore people to the doors of the bank is a huge task and I commend all the bank officials for the same. It is not difficult to open a bank branch, it is difficult to get 17 crore people to open bank accounts.
Narendra Modi
#28. Respectability, n. The offspring of a liaison between a bald head and a bank account.
Ambrose Bierce
#29. When a bank calls in a loan, it obviously hurts the customer in question. But it also adversely affects other banks that have lent to this borrower. They are now less likely to be repaid and so can't as readily lend to their own customers.
Eric Maskin
#30. In those days, if you wanted a new car or a holiday, you'd phone up the office and they'd send you some cash. You never had a bank account. I don't know anyone from the music business in the Seventies that it didn't happen to.
Ozzy Osbourne
#32. As long as there is cash, and the economy is running, all is well. But as a bank, we'll have to test, experiment, try a hundred different things. A few may work, a few may fail, but we have to experiment and try.
Uday Kotak
#33. I keep wondering at night, 'Will I have a bank the next morning, or will some technology company be doing banking without needing a bank?'
Uday Kotak
#34. It was then that Doc devised a method for getting revenge on a bank if anyone should ever want to. 'Rent a safety deposit box,' he said, 'then deposit in it one whole fresh salmon and go away for six months.
John Steinbeck
#35. My courage is nothing but borrowed courage." "Not borrowed," said Mother. "Stored up. In us. Like a bank. We've seen your courage and we saved some for you when you temporarily ran out and needed some of it back." "Cash flow problem, that's all it was," said Father.
Orson Scott Card
#36. The situation as well as them and had shifted her loyalties to the most likely survivors with the business-like efficiency of a bank teller making change.
Anonymous
#37. Toys "R" Us. Zack put on a wool cap and sunglasses.
"You look like a bank robber," I observed.
"No toy is safe.
Joan Bauer
#38. I used to work in a bank when I was younger and to me it doesn't matter whether it's raining or the sun is shining or whatever: as long as I'm riding a bike I know I'm the luckiest guy in the world.
Mark Cavendish
#39. Housing associations have fingered the fact that they cannot use their assets as liquidity due to Bank of England rules unlike their continental equivalents. This has emerged to be one of the main bottlenecks to getting investment going in the U.K. It is a Bank of England issue.
Vince Cable
#40. If you ask around, it's pretty easy to find someone who has a bank account overdraft horror story to tell.
Carolyn Maloney
#41. What kind of bank gives back 65 percent-often less-of what you deposit? Indeed, when you compare the services of a bank and an insurance company, common sense suggests something is out of whack.
Andrew Tobias
#42. Except for the con men borrowing money they shouldn't get and the widows who have to visit with the handsome young men in the trust department, no sane person ever enjoyed visiting a bank.
Martin Mayer
#43. Training is like putting money in a bank. You deposit money, and then you can take it out.
Fred Lebow
#44. It is astonishing how articulate one can become when alone and raving at a radio. Arguments and counter arguments, rhetoric and bombast flow from one's lips like scurf from the hair of a bank manager.
Stephen Fry
#45. That strain again! It had a dying fall:
O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound
That breathes upon a bank of violets,
Stealing and giving odour! Enough; no more:
'Tis not so sweet as it was before.
William Shakespeare
#46. I think that the very earliest influence was a horror of having to work in a bank or an office, a desire for a free and creative life.
Frank Auerbach
#47. Whether a bank lent one million, ten million, or a hundred millions, they would not permanently alter the market rate of interest; they would alter only the value of the money they issued.
David Ricardo
#48. You can do almost anything if you put your mind to it. Be it the perfect murder, robbing a bank or owning your own company. I don't go along with Prince Charles' maxim that everyone should know their place and limitations.
Stephen Richards
#49. Ok. So the yard is here."
"It's a football field. Don't call it a yard."
"Grass where people sit and hang out is a yard."
"We stole things here, but that doesn't make it a bank.
Daniel Handler
#50. You know, you cut taxes for the rich sometimes and it sits in a bank account. You cut taxes for the middle class, they will spend the money.
Andrew Cuomo
#51. I don't like the anonymity of the banking process - people now don't have a bank manager they ever meet.
Anne Robinson
#52. This is what I would like to hold on to. Please help me memorize this feeling of contentment and help me always support it. I'm putting this happiness in a bank somewhere, not merely FDIC protected but guarded by my four spirit brothers, held there as insurance against future trials in life.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#53. I can't think of any bank robbery comedy where it's about two normal guys. It's kind of like Superbad meets Heat, which is a cool combo, and it's just fun doing a normal guy that's robbing a bank.
Aziz Ansari
#54. [On the English climate:] People get a bad impression of it by continually trying to treat it as if it was a bank clerk, who ought to be on time on Tuesday next, instead of philosophically seeing it as a painter, who may do anything so long as you don't try to predict what.
Katharine Whitehorn
#55. If a bank fails in China, they behead the men at the top of it that was responsible ... If we beheaded all of ours that were responsible for bank failures, we wouldn't have enough people left to bury the heads.
Will Rogers
#56. After the third [San Miguel], I am likely to announce that all writing is fantasy anyway: that to set any event down in print is immediately to begin to lie about it, thank goodness; and that it's no less absurd and presumptuous to try on the skin of a bank teller than that of a Bigfoot or a dragon.
Peter S. Beagle
#57. BUSINESS and LIFE are like a bank account-you can't take out more than you put in.
William Feather
#58. My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.
Warren Beatty
#59. Lip-synching?! Let that be a lesson. If you are in Washington, D.C., and you open your mouth and another voice comes out, it better be the NRA, an oil company or a bank.
Bill Maher
#60. She smiled at him like they were about to rob a bank together.
Rachel Kushner
#61. Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
Bertolt Brecht
#62. I wondered what this odd, well-spoken man was doing on Cairnholm, with his pleated slacks and half-baked poems, looking more like a bank manager than someone who lived on a windswept island with one phone and no paved roads.
Ransom Riggs
#63. - "What kind of funny?" I asked her. "Funny like a clown onstage? Or funny like a clown hanging around the entrance to a bank?"
-"The bank one.
Lemony Snicket
#64. If a bank's too big so that it can't fail without hurting our economy, well then, it's too big.
Martin O'Malley
#65. The one thing that offends me the most is when I walk by a bank and see ads trying to convince people to take out second mortgages on their home so they can go on vacation. That's approaching evil.
Jeff Bezos
#66. This was music that had not only escaped, but had robbed a bank on the way out. It was music with its sleeves rolled up and its top button undone, raising its hat and grinning and stealing the silver.
Terry Pratchett
#67. World Bank is a bank that's focused on economic development and poverty alleviation.
Jim Yong Kim
#68. I sat me down to watch upon a bank With ivy canopied and interwove With flaunting honeysuckle.
John Milton
#69. My bank must stop trying to sell me identity theft protection. You know why I expect you to protect my money? Because you're a bank.
Bill Maher
#70. The [Democratic] party is a bank. It collects money and gives it to TV stations.
Jim Hightower
#71. You're having one of those days of accumulating misery when you argue violently with someone in a position of power: a bank teller, a dry cleaner, a three-year-old.
Liane Moriarty
#72. He's like the door of a bank safe- all big and hard and shinny and tempting, but impossible to get through.
Ally Blake
#73. After all, a bank without assets is hardly a bank at all.
Robert Kennedy
#74. A man's worth isn't measured by a bank register or diploma ... It's about integrity
Richard Paul Evans
#75. If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!
Marilyn Monroe
#76. It's no more normal to be a bank-manager or a bus-conductor, than to be Baudelaire or Genghis Khan,' Moreland had once remarked. 'It just happens there are more of the former types.
Anthony Powell
#78. CONSPIRACY is a plan to do something subversive. Three guys planning a camping trip . . . nah, that's just three guys planning a camping trip. But three guys planning to take a camping trip and rob a bank along the way . . . that's a conspiracy.
Lois Lowry
#79. It was like robbing a bank: getting the money was only half the job. Then you had to get away with the money.
Ransom Riggs
#80. The conductor was so totally without expression he could have pulled off a bank robbery without covering his face.
Haruki Murakami
#81. I want to rob a bank with a BB gun. "Give me all your money or I will give you a dimple! I will be rich, you will be cute. We both win."
Mitch Hedberg
#82. You can print money to bail out a bank, but you can't print life to bail out a planet.
Paul Hawken
#83. When I look at my own children, Mrs Hargreaves, I think ... I think I know what childhood's for. It's to give us a bank of happy memories against future suffering. So when sadness comes, at least you can remember what it was to be happy.
John Logan
#84. What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
Bertolt Brecht
#85. I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.
William Shakespeare
#86. Sunlight stretched across the Nebraska miles, burning fiery pink-gold through a bank of clouds on the horizon. It was almost sunset, and the land spread out, an expanse of never-ending cornfields broken only by the rising silhouette of a windmill or grain silo.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#87. You might as well ask why a middle-aged man with no criminal record might put a paper bag over his head and rob a bank. I acted out of personal desperation.
Aldrich Ames
#88. Every time a bank swoops down to snatch up a home, it should be met with a crowd of jeering, obstructive neighbors. And although this may be point 4.5, how about organizing a mass refusal to pay back student loans?
Barbara Ehrenreich
#89. I saw a bank of white light, and then I saw all my beloved animals. For a moment I stepped out of my body.
Roy Horn
#90. The only people that a bank will loan money to is the very people who don't need it.
Mark Twain
#91. If a bank is robbed by one of its employees, do you think the bank is corrupt? I don't think so. I think it's a victim.
Pierre Moreau
#92. I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?
Jean Baudrillard
#93. For years I wondered why dreams are so often dull when related, and this morning I find the answer, which is very simple - like most answers, you have always known it: No context ... like a stuffed animal set on the floor of a bank.
William S. Burroughs
#94. Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed.
Phyllis Diller
#95. You know what would really help? If men started looking at it like a bank. The more you deposit the more you can withdraw later. Make a woman come as a rule, she's going to be more receptive to regular sex and much more open-minded about what's on the table as far as experimenting. Common sense.
Chloe Cole
#96. Before you can write a check, you must first make out a deposit slip; before you can draw money out of a bank, you must put money into a bank; before you are entitled to a living, you must give the world a life; if you want to make a first-class living, learn to give the world a first-class life.
William J.H. Boetcker
#97. Americans are sick of the idea of the government taking over everything and trying to run it. We don't know how to run a bank, a car company.
Lamar Alexander
#98. When women can support themselves, have entry to all the trades and professions, with a house of their own over their heads and a bank account, they will own their bodies and be dictators in the social realm.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#99. If I finance a bank and I know if the bank will get in trouble, I will be hit and I will lose money, I will put a price on that.
Jeroen Dijsselbloem
#100. All my life I wanted to be a bank robber. Carry a gun and wear a mask. Now that it's happened I guess I'm just about the best bank robber they ever had. And I sure am happy.
John Dillinger
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