Aylardan Quotes & Sayings

It always seemed, and still seems, ridiculously simple to say that if one can acquire a diversified group of common stocks at a price less than the applicable net current assets alone - after deducting all prior claims, and counting as zero the fixed and other assets - the results should be quite satisfactory. — Benjamin Graham

No one can read two thousand books. In the four hundred years I have lived, I've not read more than half a dozen — Jorge Luis Borges

There was no word for what I was - unable to rent a car but able to stand in front of a room of thirteen-year-olds, sweating under industrial-grade fluorescent lights in the lilac-colored button-down my mom had picked and paid for a few months earlier. I could knock back black coffee and tell them how to ask questions, how to sit down, how to look me in the pupils. Throw away your gum. Don't text at school, at work. Clean your desk, your apartment, your life. Lessons. — Harris Sockel

She saw the sunlight far, far above ... maybe the last sunlight she would ever see.
Annabeth Chase — Rick Riordan

A hair shirt does not always render those chaste who wear it. — Michel De Montaigne

Don't settle for average. Bring your best to the moment. Then, whether it fails or succeeds, at least you know you gave all you had. We need to live the best that's in us. — Angela Bassett

The most beautiful moments always seemed to accelerate and slip beyond one's grasp just when you want to hold onto them for as long as possible. — E.A. Bucchianeri

I really would like to know," he said with genuine curiosity. "The next time I kill someone, I'd like to do it in a way that doesn't freak you out." "How about you don't kill anybody for a little bit?" "I can't make that promise. — Ilona Andrews

I always call him Lewis Carroll Carroll, because he was the first Humbert Humbert. — Vladimir Nabokov

I actually feel like comic book movies need to be better than your average movie. — Marc Guggenheim

This little four-string songwriting tool started changing the way I brought songs to the group. — Eddie Vedder

Obviously I've spent most of my working life with men and they have this way of operating which seems a bit alien to me. — Janet Street-Porter

I'd be the last guy to tell a wealthy person what to do with their money. They're entitled to do whatever they want. — Chuck Feeney

When I reach puberty I'm definitely going to grow a beard. — Max Beesley

Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self. — R. Buckminster Fuller