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When David killed Goliath, Mae Young called the cops. -- Jerry Lawler
Speaking of birthday suits, I think Mae Young's needs ironing! -- Jerry Lawler
When God said 'Let there be light', Mae Young threw the switch. -- Jerry Lawler
There are three fashion periods: the past, the present and Mae West. -- Edith Head
It was the highlight of my life being in the Mae West show, because I saw and did things I never had before. -- Joe Gold
Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good thing can be wonderful'. -- Warren Buffett
What Mae West said about sex is true about taxes. All tax cuts are good tax cuts; even bad tax cuts are good tax cuts. -- Grover Norquist
And so Fannie Mae produces very strong results for investors in - when interest rates are high and when interest rates are low, in recession and during booms. -- Franklin Raines
When I try to get work in the US all they say is that I need to lose weight - but I bet they never said that to Mae West. -- Charlotte Church
I don't see how it could possibly be made into a movie unless the entire book was scrapped and Shirley Temple cast as 'Bonnie,' Mae West as 'Belle,' and Stepin Fetchit as 'Uncle Peter.' -- Margaret Mitchell
We faced a crisis caused by the Federal Reserve, the corporate tax system, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and the Community Reinvestment Act. But the response of many people in Washington was to blame it on capitalism. -- David Boaz
The government-sponsored institution Fannie Mae, when I look at its risks, seems to be sitting on a barrel of dynamite, vulnerable to the slightest hiccup. But not to worry: their large staff of scientists deemed these events "unlikely." -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
When you start to confuse Freddie Mac, Sallie Mae and Fannie Mae with members of your family, and you remember 2,000 stock symbols but forget the children's birthdays, there's a good chance you've become too wrapped up in your work. -- Peter Lynch
I am a Scorpio, and playing the seductress appeals to me. There are a lot of women throughout film history, like Marlene Dietrich or Mae West - those are the women I was always attracted to. The bad girls. -- Chloe Sevigny
These two entities Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are not facing any kind of financial crisis. The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing. -- Barney Frank
Between the Community Redevelopment Act, requiring banks to make what I would call very weak loans, and specific quotas that the Congress imposed on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, that created the market demand that really led to the subprime phenomenon. -- Wilbur Ross
As the titanic losses were racking up, Fannie Mae's operators, Franklin Raines and Jamie Gorelick, disguised the catastrophe by orchestrating a $5 billion accounting fraud - all the while continuing to pressure banks to make absurd, politically correct loans and denouncing Republicans as enemies of the poor. -- Ann Coulter
To her British lover about to climb in bed with 80-something Mae: She said that she hoped soon to be able to say what Paul Revere said - 'The British are coming'. This was the last one-liner Mae ever uttered on film. -- Mae West
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Fixing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in isolation, without looking at the big picture, would be short-sighted. -- Bethany McLean
Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, although they're not officially debt of the federal government, they are off-balance-sheet debt. -- John Thune
We broke up in eighth grade when Tara-Mae Forrester offered to let me touch her boobs. And I did. -- Emma Chase
For years, critics of Fannie Mae have warned that it does not give them enough information to judge its risks. -- Alex Berenson
We do not have a crisis at Freddie Mac, and particularly Fannie Mae, under the outstanding leadership of Frank Raines. -- Maxine Waters
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac buy mortgages from banks and other lenders, providing those financial institutions with capital to make new loans. -- Charles Duhigg
Maybe he likes the look of Mae," Nick drawled. "Don't be ridiculous." Nick raised his eyebrows. "Does he like the look of Jamie? -- Sarah Rees Brennan
Analysts say that one reason Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were privatized in the first place was to prevent political whims from dominating the mortgage marketplace. -- Charles Duhigg
There was a young lady named Mae Who smoked without stopping all day; As pack followed pack, Her lungs first turned black, And eventually rotted away. -- Edward Gorey
I'm thirty-four.You don't look thirty-four.That's because I'm not married. Mae's smile felt as if it were set in concrete. Marriage tends to age a woman. -- Jennifer Crusie
Sin met Mae and Alan coming into the flat. Mae frowned. "Is it no-shirts festival day?" "Every day with Nick is no-shirts festival day," Alan said absently, but he was frowning too. -- Sarah Rees Brennan
The Great Bailout is mostly over for the banks. But for those troubled behemoths of the nation's housing bust, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the lifeline from Washington just keeps getting longer. -- Charles Duhigg
Although not well known outside Wall Street, Freddie Mac and its corporate cousin, Fannie Mae, are two of the world's largest financial institutions and play a crucial role in the housing market. -- Alex Berenson
I saw you put rice in a toaster once," said Mae. "I was there when made the tin of beans explode." "It was faulty," Jamie protested, his eyes shifty. " I am sure of this. -- Sarah Rees Brennan
Mae, he made me go out for a run," Jamie called out. "Tell him I don't run!" "Jamie and I are lilies of the field. We toil not, neither do we jog," Mae informed Nick. -- Sarah Rees Brennan
The bailout of Fannie Mae is completely off the books. It's going to cost us hundreds of billions of dollars. Yet nobody is placing this in any type of column in accounting for federal debt. -- Leonard Lance
Fannie Mae has traditionally only bought and sold mortgages. But when a loan held by the company goes into foreclosure, Fannie Mae gains ownership of the underlying property until it is resold to new investors. -- Charles Duhigg
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Claire Hodgson, born Clara Mae Merritt, was the daughter of a prominent Georgia attorney who had once represented Ty Cobb. She was still a teenager when she married Frank Hodgson, a gentleman caller nearly twice her age. -- Jane Leavy
I'll drive both of you," Seb offered at once. Mae nodded at him with gratitude. "No," Jamie said sternly. "I'm never getting into your horrible car. I promised myself that, because--it's horrible, and you're horrible. So take that! -- Sarah Rees Brennan
Seems like nothing's getting safer or better, I said. Seems like everything's getting worse. Maybe that's what's gotta happen, Willa Mae said. Maybe everything's gotta break lose and fall apart before we can put it back together again right. -- Margaret McMullan
Oh, you need Alan to betray Nick and then you'll steal Nick's powers and kill them both," said Mae. "Great idea. Hey, can i come? I'll bring a picnic lunch if you promise not to let blood get on the sandwiches. -- Sarah Rees Brennan
RE: GSEs like Freddie Mac & Fannie Mae: "creditors will continue to underprice the risk-taking of these financial institutions, overfund them, and fail to provide effective market discipline Facing prices that are too low, systemically important firms will take on too much risk." -- Gary H. Stern
Man, you're a regular Bonnie Parker." "A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up." Jesse found that hysterical. "Did Willie say that?" "Nope, Mae West. Now, how do I get on this thing in a skirt? -- Ruta Sepetys
I think that the responsibility that the Democrats had may rest more in resisting any efforts by Republicans in the Congress, or by me when I was President, to put some standards and tighten up a little on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. -- William J. Clinton
I told Ella Mae Cheeks Johnson, then age 105, that she was the only person over 80 who I'd ever met who never referred to her physical infirmities or health problems. To which she replied, "I have my difficulties; I do not rejoice in them. -- Patricia Mulcahy
Joe Louis was one of my closest friends.... I'm a great boxing fan. I used to go to the American Legion Stadium in Hollywood, every Friday night for 15 years. Down the aisle would come Lupe Velez, Johnny Weismuller, Mae West. All at ringside. -- Mickey Rooney
It's about average for us. Behavior always draws more than survey. We're the sexy ones,' Nate said with a grin. Amy snorted. 'Oh, yeah, you guys are the Mae Wests of the nerd world.' We're action nerds,' Nate said. 'Adventure nerds. Nerds of romance. -- Christopher Moore
Oh God, Mae," said Jamie in a hollow voice, descending the stairs. "I will never drink again. I'm only seeing in black and white. My arms feel all floppy, like flightless wings. I caught a glimpse of myself in the mirror and I looked like a very sad penguin. -- Sarah Rees Brennan
Woman: You certainly know the way to a man's heart. Mae West: Funny, too, 'cause I don't know how to cook. -- Mae West
REPLICA, n. A reproduction of a work of art, by the artist that made the original. It is so called to distinguish it from a "copy," which is made by another artist. When the two are mae with equal skill the replica is the more valuable, for it is suppose -- Ambrose Bierce
There is plenty of blame to go around for the U.S. housing bubble, but not much of it belongs to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The two giant housing-finance institutions made many mistakes over the decades, some of them real whoppers, but causing house prices to soar and then crater during the past decade weren't among them. -- Mark Zandi
And so getting to meet Aubrey Plaza and Mae Whitman and getting to know two awesome girls who are just kick-ass. It's been nice that way where we probably wouldn't have worked together on any other crazy project. And just like you know Chris Evans teaching us all the high-five because he's dealing with like non-jocks (laughter) and we're like yeah! -- Alison Pill
If I take a tumble, I'll mae quite a splash, but at least I won't smash against the deck and make a mess. Still be dead, though. -- L.A. Meyer
JUDGE: Are you trying to show contempt for this court? MAE WEST: I was doin' my best to hide it. -- Mae West

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