Banks

Famous quotes containing the word banks:

    “The effectiveness of our memory banks is determined not by the total number of facts we take in, but the number we wish to reject.”
    —Jon Wynne-Tyson (b. 1924)

    “I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.”
    —Victor Hugo (1802–1885)

    “I am not impressed by the Ivy League establishments. Of course they graduate the best—it’s all they’ll take, leaving to others the problem of educating the country. They will give you an education the way the banks will give you money—provided you can prove to their satisfaction that you don’t need it.”
    —Peter De Vries (b. 1910)