How essential it is in youth to acquire some intellectual or artistic tastes, in order to furnish the mind, to be able… — William Lyon Phelps Copy Share Image
I wanted to be an archaeologist. But in school you have to take a tremendous amount of statistics for that, and I… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
My grandmother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
Prayer by its nature is communion and union of man with God; by its action it is the reconciliation of man with… — Ignatius Bryanchaninov Copy Share Image
Somebody at one of these places asked me: "What do you do? How do you write, create?" You don't, I told them.… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
The public library building, in my view, is just a little lower than the church, the cathedral, the temple, the synagogue and… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
You do stuff that gets a reaction and you think 'that's a winner' and then it never sees the light of day.… — Rafe Spall Copy Share Image
Time is a dream ... a destroying dream; It lays great cities in dust, it fills the seas; It covers the face… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
Music is so clearly a commodity now. At one point, maybe 20 years ago, there were still some rumblings about keeping the… — Eef Barzelay Copy Share Image
Writers write because they cannot allow the characters that inhabit them to suffocate them. These characters want to get out, to breathe… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The Occupy Wall Street collective is confused about what it wants but it wants it now! Some of the loonier demands from… — Mike Rosen Copy Share Image
The idea that it's smart to allow Wall Street firms, with this "too big to fail" imprimatur, to become hedge funds again… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
I do recognize the most valuable work being done across the country is that work being done inside the four walls in… — Ann Romney Copy Share Image
By fate, not option, frugal Nature gave One scent to hyson and to wall-flower, One sound to pine-groves and to water-falls, One… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I think academics are infuriating. For every expert on Shakespeare there is another one to cancel his theory out. It drives you… — Joseph Fiennes Copy Share Image
Night was a very different matter. It was dense, thicker than the very walls, and it was empty, so black, so immense… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
I am going to build a great border wall to stop illegal immigration, to stop the gangs and the violence and to… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
What Wall Street is, they're market makers. Wall Street's business model is making money on velocity of money. They're a click industry.… — Laurence D. Fink Copy Share Image
It bothered me in a kind of Charles Manson way to have a brown smear of blood on my wall but I… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
My name is Jordan Belfort. I was raised in a tiny apartment in Queens. At the tender age of 22 I headed… — Jordan Belfort Copy Share Image
You can't manage Wall Street. Wall Street has its own viewpoints on everything. I have always believed, if you manage your business… — Ross Levinsohn Copy Share Image
No statement is more true and better applicable to Wall Street than the famous warning of Santayana: "Those who do not remember… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
All roads lead to Wall Street, but we feel the effects of Wall Street on every street corner. Certainly in Syracuse, N.Y.,… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held up the… — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
The single most remarkable (and revealing) fact of the Obama presidency may very well be the lack of a single prosecution of… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
