Ellmaker House Quotes & Sayings

This preternatural love of rules almost for their own sake punctuates German finance as it does German life. As it happens, a story had just broken that a German reinsurance company called Munich Re, back in June 2007, or just before the crash, had sponsored a party for its best producers that offered not just chicken dinners and nearest-to-the-pin golf competitions but a blowout with prostitutes in a public bath. In finance, high or low, this sort of thing is of course not unusual. What was striking was how organized the German event was. The company tied white and yellow and red ribbons to the prostitutes to indicate which ones were available to which men. After each sexual encounter the prostitute received a stamp on her arm to indicate how often she had been used. The Germans didn't just want hookers: they wanted hookers with rules. — Michael Lewis

He had no intention of writing. He loved reading, that was all. And he read books that he thought so far beyond anything that he himself could dream of achieving that any thought of writing instantly evaporated into the certainty of failure. — Niall Williams

I made up my mind that I wanted everything, and nothing would stop me. — Suge Knight

I can't' really sing a song unless I really connect with the lyrics. — Molly Ringwald

They understand what their market is and who they should be selling records to, and most importantly, they know the kind of artist that they want to be, but they have to do it themselves. You don't want a 13-year-old singing some awful song from a musical. — Simon Cowell

they were really having fun being cynical, and I didn't want to ruin it. — Stephen Chbosky

Hemingway's remarks are not literature. — Gertrude Stein

The more I learn of physics, the more I am drawn to metaphysics. — Albert Einstein

Unite all people of African ancestry of the world to one great body to establish a country and absolute government of their own. — Marcus Garvey