Bank Of England Quotes

#1. I've spent hundreds of thousands of pounds on the very best security and I can assure you my homes are as safe as the Bank of England.

Simon Cowell

#2. According to the Bank of England the economy is growing too fast so interest rates must rise to counter the supposed inflationary threat.

Harry Enfield

#3. In 1925, when Britain went back to the gold standard, that was supported by the Conservative Party, the Labour Party, the Bank of England, the civil service, the CBI, the TUC, the Times, the Economist; that consensus was very strong.

Ed Balls

#4. Scotland is the only case in the world where the poor part of a territory wants to separate from the rich part. If independence came, one option is to keep the pound as its currency, so that all economic decisions will continue to be taken by the Bank of England.

Philip Kerr

#5. You are as safe with me as you would be in the Bank of England.

Robert Maxwell

#6. The historian assesses that the investment of the wealthy classes in the Bank of England wedded them to the fate of the nation as a whole and to the maintenance of its stability.

Walter Russell Mead

#7. If you owe ten pounds to the Bank of England, you get thrown in jail, but if you owe a million pounds, they invite you to sit on the Board

Philippe Ries

#8. The real power is not corporate; it is private. They choose not to have a name. It is a dynasty of banking families - Rothschild and Rockefeller being two - that operate chiefly out of London, in the boardrooms out of the city of London and the Bank of England, which they own.

Betty Dodson

#9. Whatever the man's age, history, condition, knowledge, culture, development, he had an erection. Good currency anywhere. Recognized by the Bank of England.

Saul Bellow

#10. 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

#11. He [Stanley Matthews] told me that he used to play for just twenty pounds a week. Today he would be worth all the money in the Bank of England.

Gianfranco Zola

#12. When we've been bold on the Bank of England, on PFI, on great constitutional change, on the New Deal, we've been most successful. So what we have to continue to try and do is to battle with ideas and find new ways of applying those values as the world changes.

John Reid

#13. Whenever he gives advice it is always something as startling as an epigram, and yet as practical as the Bank of England.

G.K. Chesterton

#14. I protest that we fans are being emotionally starved and frustrated by long periods of perfect performance of these batteries. More over, when there are nothing but strikes and balls going on, you relapse into your worries over the Bank of England, or something else.

Herbert Hoover

#15. I went to America in the winter of 1872-73, authorised to secure, if I could, the passage of a bill demonetising silver. It was in the interest of those I represented - the governors of the Bank of England - to have it done. By 1873, gold coins were the only form of coin money.

Ernest Seyd

#16. I know of only three people who really understand money. A professor at another university. One of my students. And a rather junior clerk at the Bank of England.

John Maynard Keynes

#17. The longer I operated on Wall Street the more distrustful I became of tips and inside information of every kind. Given time, I believe that inside information can break the Bank of England

Bernard Baruch

#18. How is it having more control if we have a recession as the Bank of England and IFS say?

Sadiq Khan

#19. We think it would be safer if the Bank of England had responsibility for solvency regulation of UK-based banks, as well as having an overall duty to keep the system solvent. Otherwise, there could be dangerous delays if a banking crisis did hit.

John Redwood

#20. I spy the eyes before me to be those of the celestial warrior the legends of men call Michael.

Jon Steele

#21. The external rest comes unexpected.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#22. The poet laureate of England talked about murdering Jews on the West Bank.

Steven T. Katz

#23. Sometimes to go forward you've got to go to the depths of your own personal despair and claw yourself back. From that point, no matter what happens, you know you can do it.

Gordon Strachan

#24. Oxford has a slightly mythical rep, particularly for people who haven't been there.

Kevin Whately

#25. I wouldn't be able to do the songs as long as I've been doing if I didn't feel the pulse of the world. But I can feel people and I know what they want. I feel like I know how they are, because I am the people. And I just have a gift.

R. Kelly

#26. You've got to live life to the fullest. You just enjoy every beautiful thing there is to enjoy.

Leah Chase

#27. Being bound to one particular storyline such that one's narrative is rigid, does not imply the need to avoid formulating particular other kinds of possibilities. Rather, it involves being stuck in one self-limiting, self-reinforcing set of possibilities.

Elizabeth F. Howell

#28. What brought me into the TV business is what keeps me here and happy. You can learn something new every day if you have a really positive attitude.

Katie Couric

#29. When you're busy blocking out difficult emotions and feelings, you're not going to feel the good stuff, either.

Valerie Bertinelli

#30. Is this one of those contracts like in that kinky book where we outline what we're willing to do or not do during sex? Like our hard limits and safe words?

Katie Ashley

#31. The sea from Dunkirk to Dover during these days of the evacuation looked like any coastal road in England on a bank holiday. It was solid with shipping.

Douglas Bader

#32. President Obama once said he wants everybody in America to go to college. What a snob.

Rick Santorum

#33. How I hate you," he said softly. "If hate were stone I could build a tower into the clouds.

Jack Vance

#34. Nowhere but in England are the papers so full of fascinating misbehaviour. There is always a scandal brewing, there is always a politician, village vicar or bank manager being pilloried, yet at the same time the country breathes a remarkable sense of order.

Geert Mak

#35. The world is not interested in what we do for a living. What they are interested in is what we have to offer freely - hope, strength, love and the power to make a difference!

Sasha Azevedo

#36. Barclays Bank in England purchased bankrupt Lehman Brothers Tuesday along with its Manhattan tower, saving nine thousand jobs. It's humiliating. The United States of America is 232 years old and we're having to go to mom for money.

Argus Hamilton

#37. There's no question raising the minimum wage excessively causes a loss of jobs.

Mitt Romney

#38. It seemed impossible that a scrappy book like 'Goon Squad' could win an award like that. It's such an iconic honor. I think what the Pulitzer means to me is that I'll need to work very, very hard to try to live up to it.

Jennifer Egan