Guvnor British Slang Quotes & Sayings

In an extreme credit crunch, leveraged purchases of gold cause forced sales, because any price correction triggers margin calls. As a result, gold can be very volatile - upward and downward - at the peak of a crisis. — Nouriel Roubini

Observermanship is the art of giving the impression that you are with it even though you don't know Latin very well. — Robert McAfee Brown

The cowboy music twanged in the roadhouse and carried across the fields, all sadness. It was all right with me. I kissed my baby and we put out the lights. — Jack Kerouac

I have been seeing dragons again.
Last night, hunched on a beaver dam,
one held a body like a badly held cocktail;
his tail, keeping the beat of a waltz,
sent a morse of ripples to my canoe.
They are not richly bright
but muted like dawns
or the vague sheen on a fly's wing.
Their old flesh drags in folds
as they drop into grey pools,
strain behind a tree.
Finally the others saw one today, trapped,
tangled in our badminton net.
The minute eyes shuddered deep in the creased face
while his throat, strangely fierce, stretched
to release an extinct burning inside:
pathetic loud whispers as four of us
and the excited spaniel surrounded him. — Michael Ondaatje

Your heart has a trail follow it. — Coleen Innis

For me, I find that even though I've accomplished a few things in my life, looking back on accomplishments doesn't give me a sense of satisfaction. — Alan Alda

most of the times
it's the hardest
to say
what I love more

you

or

your memory. — Sanober Khan

I've learned that giving your heart away to someone is the bravest thing you can ever do. The one moment that it's cherished, no matter how brief, can help it to survive a lifetime. — Christine Brae