Asalto A La Quotes & Sayings

The stock market has predicted nine of the last five recessions. — Paul Samuelson

I never studied much at Howard, but at Boston University, I didn't do much else but study. — Edward Brooke

If a job isn't worth dreaming about, it isn't worth having. — Deborah Gregory

Some people think football [soccer] is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that. — Bill Shankly

Nobody wanted to believe Jack Ma. — Jack Ma

But you must give my compliments to him. Yes - I think it must be compliments. Is not there a something wanted, Miss Price, in our language - a something between compliments and - and love - to suit the sort of friendly acquaintance we have had together? - So many months acquaintance! - But compliments may be sufficient here. — Jane Austen

Richard Nixon was a very complex man. I don't think he was a conservative, nor liberal, not even a moderate. He was a pragmatic politician. He loved politics. — Edward Brooke

It's not nice to make fun of people with issues. — Richard Simmons

Who cares about my voice? There are more important things going on in the world. I want to make a difference. I'm going to law school. I want to become a public defender."
I couldn't believe she'd give up singing to work with scumbags like me. "By the time a guy ends up in front of the judge, it's too late to make a difference."
"It's never too late to make a difference," she said.
"All I'm saying is that with your music you could have an influence on people before they end up in trouble. — Carolee Dean

Time
He flexes like a whore
Falls wanking to the floor
His trick is you and me, boy — David Bowie

In 2006, the number of children in targeted school choice programs nationwide will reach six digits for the first time, representing a 40 percent increase in the number of children in targeted school choice programs and an even bigger increase in the amount of public funding. — Clint Bolick

The roots of war are in the way we live our daily lives
the way we develop our industries, build up our society, and consume goods. — Thich Nhat Hanh

There is a feeling the body gives the mind
of having missed something, a bedrock poverty, like falling
without the sense that you are passing through one world,
that you could reach another
anytime. Instead the real
is crossing you,
your body an arrival
you know is false but can't outrun. And somewhere in between
these geese forever entering and
these spiders turning back,
this astonishing delay, the everyday, takes place. — Jorie Graham