“In fact, after that ride across Amaya, he still had blisters in all kinds of places where blisters shouldn’t be.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, quote from Hunted
“The main lesson Rollan had learned in training was that Meilin was dangerous with a handkerchief.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, quote from Hunted
“I’m less a member of the Greencloaks and more a member of Let’s-Save-Erdas.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, quote from Hunted
“I hope you never understand, because I like you. I like you, I like you.”
― Sarah Kane, quote from 4.48 Psychosis
“The only thing that made the music different was that we were taking lyrics to places they had never been before. The thing that makes art interesting is when an artist has incredible pain or incredible rage. The New York bands were much more into their pain, while the English bands were much more into their rage. The Sex Pistols' songs were written out of anger, wheras Johnny was writing songs because he was brokenhearted over Sable...”
― Legs McNeil, quote from Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
“She tried to get even with him through psychological warfare but couldn't, because he didn't care.”
― Steve Martin, quote from Shopgirl
“all right we are two nations”
― John Dos Passos, quote from The Big Money
“The pyramidlike structure of a collateralized debt obligation is a beautiful thing—if you are fascinated by the intricacies of financial engineering. A banker creates a CDO by assembling pieces of debt according to their credit ratings and their yields. The mistake made by AIG and others who were lured by them was believing that the ones with the higher credit ratings were such a sure bet that the companies did not bother to set aside much capital against them in the unlikely event that the CDO would generate losses.”
― Andrew Ross Sorkin, quote from Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis — and Themselves
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