James Fisk Robber Baron Quotes & Sayings

It was summer here and he wondered if there existed a different season for every corner of this world in this moment and the moments to come. Whether if you traveled fast and far enough you could witness a year passing in a single journey. — Paul Yoon

In fact, it was all I could do to stop myself from saying, 'I've always been a big fan of your work ... — Elizabeth Gilbert

In my experience the difference between a straight and a bisexual is about four pints — Graham Norton

They seem to have forgotten that, and are back saying the only purpose of P2P networks is for illegal trading of owned goods. We claim part of the reason for P2P is for legal trading of what ought to be in public domain. And what is in public domain in many cases. — John Perry Barlow

I'm painting so much that I don't listen to much music. Because music is another creative outlet, it's a huge distraction for me when I paint. — Chris Mars

How am I to dress up in my finery, and go off and away to smart parties, after the sorrow I have seen today? — Elizabeth Gaskell

Turkish opium-eaters, it seems, are absurd enough to sit, like so many equestrian statues, on logs of wood as stupid as themselves. — Thomas De Quincey

She must face her grief where the struggle is always hardest-in the place where each trivial object is attended by pleasant memories. — Ellen Glasgow

In 2008, when almost every other investor got crushed, and even the Wall Street "experts" were down by almost half, I was up 17 percent - beating the S&P Average by over 50 percent.

Reminiscences of a Stock Market Flea — James J. Houts

I would find you down the line with broken wings, pick you up, and swear that you would taste the sky again. — Pleasefindthis

The afflicted are almost upon them. The air is a din of hypersonic bursts, snarls and empty shell casings. But still I hear him. As his people start to fall. As his pistol clicks empty. As he rises with only his knuckles left between him and the sheer brutality of mathematics. As the music swells above the carnage, still I hear him breathe the words. "Tell them I was thinking of them. At the end." They pile onto him. All snarls and teeth and fists. But as he falls, I am holding his hand. Easing him into his long good night. "I will tell them, David." The last words he will ever hear. 'I promise. — Amie Kaufman

What if this is it?
What if I've set a series of events into motion that will doom me to be trapped forever in some desperate monotonous life and in my last breaths, when I look back at all the mistakes I've made, I'll remember this moment, now, as the moment I truly fucked it all up. And then I die. — Peter Sinn Nachtrieb

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat
I just don't think about it. — Robin Green

[W]hat seems like madness at its inception will become the way things have always been if you give it enough time. — Mira Grant

If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool. — Abraham Lincoln