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)

    “The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.”
    —Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)

    “Its whether will ye be a rank robber’s wife,
    Or will ye die by my wee pen knife?

    Its I’ll not be a rank robber’s wife,
    But I’ll rather die by your wee pen knife.

    He ‘s killed this may and he ‘s laid her by,
    For to bear the red rose company.”
    —Unknown. Babylon; or, The Bonnie Banks o’ Fordie (l. 9–14)