Defreitas Cleaning Quotes & Sayings

There was more than one way to think about Mike Burry's purchase of a billion dollars in credit default swaps. The first was as a simple, even innocent, insurance contract. Burry made his semiannual premium payments and, in return, received protection against the default of a billion dollars' worth of bonds. He'd either be paid zero, if the triple-B-rated bonds he'd insured proved good, or a billion dollars, if those triple-B-rated bonds went bad. But of course Mike Burry didn't own any triple-B-rated subprime mortgage bonds, or anything like them. He had no property to "insure" it was as if he had bought fire insurance on some slum with a history of burning down. To him, as to Steve Eisman, a credit default swap wasn't insurance at all but an outright speculative bet against the market - and this was the second way to think about it. — Michael Lewis

He had left home one day, yesterday, and come home today, and the change was too much for him to bear. And this was why he could not go home all at once. — Robert Laxalt

Now before we get into anything, ladies, no scratching, no spitting and no tattling to mummy. — Eoin Colfer

I suggested that a better understanding of human nature in the light of modern science can point the way to an approach to politics that is more sophisticated. — Steven Pinker

The late Dr. [David] Bogue is reported to have one day said to some of his students, "Do you suppose that people have nothing to do but to listen to your emptiness by the hour?"-William Jay — George Redford

People are always asking me when I'm going to retire. Why should I? I've got it two ways - I'm still making movies, and I'm a senior citizen, so I can see myself at half price. — George Burns

With a heart filled with endless love for those who scorned me, I wandered far away. For many and many a year I sang songs. Whenever I tried to sing of love, it turned to pain. And again, when I tried to sing of pain, it turned to love. — Franz Schubert

I want to make it clear to people that the idea of putting subliminable messages into ads is ridiculous. — George W. Bush

I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent. — Lucille Ball

Those who have been immersed in the tragedy of massive death during wartime, and who have faced it squarely, never allowing their senses and feelings to become numbed and indifferent, have emerged from their experiences with growth and humanness greater than that achieved through almost any other means. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross