Averliven Quotes & Sayings

And you'd see that 2/28 interest only ARM mortgages were only 5.85% of the pool in early 2004, but by late 2004 they were 17.48% of the pool, and by late summer 2005 25.34% of the pool. Yet average FICO [consumer credit] scores for the pool, percent of no-doc ["Liar"] loan to value measures and other indicators were pretty static ... . The point is that these measures could stay roughly static, but the overall pool of mortgages being issued, packaged and sold off was worsening in quality, because for the same average FICO scores or the same average loan to value, you were getting a higher percentage of interest only mortgages. — Michael Lewis

I'm a moderate Democrat. I've always been fascinated and maddened by the way things get done in our system, which as an ideal is so extraordinary, but the way it actually works can be mind-boggling. — Tony Goldwyn

I don't want him to know that people like Louis's mom exist, that people fall into land mines of pain and can't crawl back out. — Megan Mayhew Bergman

When a woman becomes her individual most effective close friend existence is simpler. — Diane Von Furstenberg

Threat - your performance was an entirely different flavor of amazing. — Jerry Aubin

Whatever you desire, it comes from the universe, and whatever you manifest, be it situations, the right partner, friend, or spouse, the right pet, anything at all, IS the universe, for the universe IS everything. — Stephen Richards

Heaven was the place where you kept alive the dreams of your memories. — Orhan Pamuk

I stumble through a carnival of horrors — Anne Rice

I have been asked whether it is strange when a big story and big business for you is tragedy or ill fortune for someone else; but the fact is that is how many things in life work sadly. — Mary Hart

I don't like the gringos at all. They are very boring and all have faces like unbaked rolls. — Frida Kahlo

It is no sin to look at a nice girl. — Leo Tolstoy

There is something more beautiful than a beautiful thing and that is a beautiful thing which has a beautiful reflection on the water! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

There's no question 'Amazing Race' is a beautifully produced show. — Nigel Lythgoe