Alaija Patterson Quotes & Sayings

You normally don't get a margin call unless your securities, minus the debt, are worth 30% or less of their nominal market value. — Jane Bryant Quinn

Memory, with its fugitive adjustments, is the merciful veil to the grim enactments of the first law. It hides the anguish in the human heart which is always craving for perpetuity. — Stacy Aumonier

A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear. — Jack Nicholson

Leaving us with Eric is like hiring a babysitter who spends his time sharpening knives. — Veronica Roth

But however good you get at translating personality into line or paint it's no go if your personality isn't worth translating. — John Fowles

Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism. — Russell Baker

Miss Marilyn Monroe calls to mind the bouquet of a fireworks display, eliciting from her awed spectators an open-mouthed chorus of ohs and ahs ... — Cecil Beaton

Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time. — Barbara Corcoran