Foppen Quotes & Sayings

You need that same creative force that exists in a building like Disney [Walt Disney Concert Hall] to actually tackle that most prosaic of problems. — William McDonough

Rogue states never turn out to be quite the pariahs they are deemed. They are only able to cause, or at least threaten to cause, mayhem because they enjoy the covert support - usually by means of technology transfers - of one or more major powers within the charmed circle of global 'good guys'. — Margaret Thatcher

No longer were the prices of ordinary mortgage bonds allowed to roam inefficiently, for they were now linked to the CMO market, in much the same way that flour is linked to the market for bread. Fair value for CMOs (the finished product) implied a fair value for conventional mortgage bonds (the raw materials). — Michael Lewis

If you're famous enough, the rules don't apply. — Maureen Dowd

Baby, I wouldn't settle for someone else if I couldn't have you, — Aurora Rose Reynolds

One of the key places where sociology should be used is in analyzing 'the world' of our times, so that we can be more discerning. To resist the dangers of the world, you have to recognize the distortions and seductions of the world. — Os Guinness

We who have means and a voice must use them to help those who have neither. Yet how can we help them if we don't even know about them? And how can we know about them if no one writes about them? Is it so wrong to want to know things? — Jennifer Donnelly

Father Wolf looked on amazed. He had almost forgotten the days when he won Mother Wolf in fair fight from five other wolves, when she ran in the Pack and was not called The Demon for compliment's sake. Shere Khan might have faced Father Wolf, but he could not stand up against Mother Wolf, for he knew that where he was she had all the advantage of the ground, and would fight to the death. So he backed out of the cave mouth growling... — Rudyard Kipling

Ten years ago, in 94, we thought maybe nobody would ever care about Styx again. — James Young

You're raised to think being a mother is an inevitable step in your development but you start to ask yourself questions, because not every woman does want to have children. — Lena Dunham

Misfortune wandering the same track lights now upon one and now upon another. — Aeschylus