Top 38 Banked Quotes
#1. The idea of power as a possession, whose asset can be banked and drawn on when needed, comes easy to a society whose rules grow out of the methods of finance capitalism.
Elizabeth Janeway
#3. Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fire blazes. No one ever thanked him.
Robert Hayden
#4. Don't get me wrong: I love nuclear energy! It's just that I prefer fusion to fission. And it just so happens that there's an enormous fusion reactor safely banked a few million miles from us. It delivers more than we could ever use in just about 8 minutes. And it's wireless!
William McDonough
#5. I see a woman who has a deep curiosity. Who wants to feel but is worried- of herself? Of others? I'm not sure. But I think she has a fire banked within her. Maybe it's only embers now, glowing in the dark, but if tinder were to be put to those embers... oh, what a conflagration that would be.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#6. The banked oval tracks are obsolete tracks for Indy cars.
Mario Andretti
#7. I was holding his hand. I banked every jealous look, and became limitlessly wealthy on them.
Caitlin Moran
#9. When the economy goes sour, there are three different kinds of restaurants that do well: the smaller-scale neighborhood restaurants that don't ask much of you; those that have banked enormous goodwill by offering great value during the boom; and those with proven records of excellence, a sure thing.
Danny Meyer
#10. Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: hard work - and realizing what opportunity is and what isn't.
Lucille Ball
#11. Every takeoff and landing, when the plane banked too much to one side, I prayed for a crash.
Chuck Palahniuk
#12. Great emotion, it turns out, is a fire, and like a fire it needs fuel. Unfed it dies down to a hot and banked glow, ready to ignite again but leaving space for other matters.
Mark Lawrence
#13. Fantasies are like extra cash. They need to be banked for later use.
John Waters
#14. I've now learned that the most stressful day of filming a TV series is the first day of a new episode. You haven't quite banked the one you just wrapped and are wondering, 'Did I do that right?' 'Could I have done that better?'
Gina Bellman
#16. There was a time when I was enamored of the Clintons. I knocked on doors, phone-banked and rallied during his campaign.
Beth Broderick
#17. We banked around until we found a rainbow in the dark. It was on this occasion that I discovered that Granuaile had never heard of Ronnie James Dio. My shock at this news was such that I almost completely missed the fact that we were traveling on Bifrost, the rainbow bridge to Asgard.
Kevin Hearne
#18. Her life was one endless loop that she raced around, with steep banked curves so she could never change or slow down. It just delivered her back to herself, over and over and over.
Chris Cleave
#19. You are judged on your last game no matter how many you have banked.
Ian Eagle
#20. This was our last stop. This was it. We had those two embryos that we had banked prior to learning about the breast cancer, and with the medicine she was on, this was our last effort. The prayers were answered.
Bill Rancic
#21. More likely they'd already been identified by the transponder code required on all privately owned vehicles. They were as good as dead.
"Hold on," Win said. "I know how to lose these guys."
With that he set him mouth in a grim line and banked sharply toward the canyon.
Marcha A. Fox
#22. All of the little triumphs of their love story had been banked away over the years, accumulating interest. Now they made lavish withdrawals, cashed in every bond, every insurance policy.
Suanne Laqueur
#23. The fires of youth are not dead in old age ... only banked down.
Elizabeth Goudge
#24. Companies that banked their future on broadband - most of them are not very successful.
Jerry Yang
#25. Driving a stock car does not require much handling ability, at least not as compared to Grand Prix racing, because the tracks are simple banked ovals and there is almost no shifting of gears. So, qualifying becomes a test of raw nerve - of how fast a man is willing to take a curve.
Tom Wolfe
#26. I can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the emissaries are coming. If you will pardon so commonplace a simile, we have set off the fire alarm and have nothing to do but to wait. I do not think we will have to wait for long.
Arthur C. Clarke
#27. Holy solitaries' is a phrase no more consistent with the Gospel than holy adulterers. The Gospel of Christ knows no religion but social; no holiness, but social holiness.
John Wesley
#28. Jesus' coming is the final and unanswerable proof that God cares.
William Barclay
#30. When you have done a good deed that another has had the benefit of, why do you need a third reward-as fools do-praise for having done well or looking for a favor in return.
Marcus Aurelius
#31. A lot of people in the middle of their lives have a secret yearning for more romance.
Jack Nicholson
#32. Sometimes it is good to breach the rules
so as to achieve an end,
Yet keep an edge and not break or bend.
Mira Midha
#33. Everyone needs to make his own choices. You need to mind your own business and not meddle in ours. So
John Bunyan
#34. Christopher Reeve did such an amazing job that to give him some kind of accent or more bravado would have been wrong. Audiences wouldn't have responded to that either.
Brandon Routh
#35. Perhaps gratitude and love are one and the same.
Erica Goros
#36. I recommend anybody go to a bookstore, go down the self-help or new-age section, and just walk those aisles. See what book jumps out at you; there's a good chance it's a book you need in your life. That's basically how I find the books that I read.
Tom Araya
#37. I knew I wanted to be some kind of artist from about 12. I met a neighbour who drew cartoons, and I had an idea I wanted to be a cartoonist - or something that involved Indian ink, at any rate.
Edward Ruscha
#38. The fewer species there are and the fewer species we know about, the fewer questions we even know to ask.
Lynn Margulis
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