Cats Pajamas And Other Quotes & Sayings

As I gather my thoughts here in order to get to the point, I am reminded of a joke Zafar made when he was still in banking. I say joke, but Zafar was always rather serious about banking and often talked about accountability, as he called it. This stuff is so esoteric, he once said, that the only people who understand it are in the business. What about regulators? I asked. Regulators, he replied, have one eye on the revolving door. Academics make money teaching traders their latest research, and politicians don't know their arses from their elbows. Can you imagine the people on a march against finance? The guy on a megaphone shouting: What do we want? And everyone answering: Specific curbs on short selling in certain circumstances. When do we want it? In phases and at appropriate times. That's the joke. It was funny at the time. — Zia Haider Rahman

It's just a shirt. I have no emotional connection to it or the band. I just didn't feel like coming to work topless today."
Camden's hand slammed down on the counter. "Shit, are there days that you come topless? I would like to make sure I'm here for that. — Ashlan Thomas

You're not 'everyone else', you're different. You get to see the real me," he told her. — Stylo Fantome

I like to do things quickly because I'm easily bored. — Karl Lagerfeld

If We allow Slaves, we act against the very Principles by which we associated together, which was to relieve the distressed. — James Oglethorpe

To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go. — Mary Oliver

Seek Truth, for it is your destiny! — Katy Tackes

Master Salamon usually set off a little later as neither he nor other male members of their community were in the habit of walking on the road alongside their wives. — Swarnakanthi Rajapakse

She wanted more, more slang, more figures of speech, the bee's knees, the cats pajamas, horse of a different color, dog-tired, she wanted to talk like she was born here, like she never came from anywhere else — Jonathan Safran Foer

Nothing feels worse than knowing that people didn't see your movie. That they wanted to and the critics loved it but nobody knew where it was because it didn't do what it was supposed to do opening weekend. It used to be that independents were allowed to stay in the theaters, build word of mouth. — Allison Anders

No happy person can be quite so impervious to pain (Gail Wynand to Dominique Francon) — Ayn Rand

You can't demand peace, but you can reduce the reasons for war. — Colin R. Turner

It was the kids on the school bus who supplied the gory and graphic details of my sex education — Logan Levkoff