Compulsiveness To Bite 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

Take me ham away, take away my eggs, even my Chili, but leave me my newspaper. — Will Rogers

Our individualism has always been bound by a set of communal values, the glue upon which every healthy society depends. — Barack Obama

Africa is the cradle of cosmic civilization. At the fullness of time of Africa, the entire world shall be saved. — Womi

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty. — George Eliot

I might not be the greatest actor, but I walk into every project willing to work hard. — Zac Efron

Well, yeah, I wanted to resist the urge to thicken everything up with instrumentation, because I just felt like I was interested in seeing how the songs did on their own. — Joanna Newsom

Victor had always said that most of the time happiness crept up on you when you were doing something else. He also said no happiness was ever wasted, because every happiness stays with you, and you can revisit it in your memory any time you're sad, or lonely or depressed. It was kinda corny, but like a lot of corny things, it was true. Maybe that was what made it corny in the first place. — Charlie Fletcher

The love between a writer and a reader is never celebrated. — Patricia Duncker

I am a gay man who loves James Bond films and snooker - all kinds of working-class pursuits. — Mark Gatiss

I could never put anything into a picture that wasn't actually there in front of me. That would be a pointless lie, a mere bit of artfulness. — Lucian Freud

For animals, life is all there is; for man, life is a question mark. An irreversible question mark, for man has never found, nor will ever find, any answers. Life not only has no meaning; it can never have one. — Emil Cioran

Perhaps I have lived my life to excess, but know what - if I had it to do over again, I would overdo it again. — Robert Breault

Tutelage is a comfortable relationship for the senior partner, but it is demoralizing in the long run. It breeds illusions of omniscience on one side and attitudes of impotent irresponsibility on the other. — Henry A. Kissinger