Kempson Investments Quotes & Sayings

The children never connect me with the man onstage when I come out the stage door. The parents spend all their time trying to convince them that I'm Caractacus. — Raul Esparza

No one grasps the game, because no one knows the rules. No one follows the same set of rules. It is like life. Some think honor universal. Some think laws binding. Others know better. But in the end, don't those who rise by poison die by poison?" I shrug. "In the storybooks. In life there's no one left to poison them, often. — Pierce Brown

A slippage, what has not come to pass or what has passed, a bit of nothingness or a bit of everything if one considers all a slip of paper might hold. — Meia Geddes

My children were born into this. They will always be the grandchildren of the President and First Lady of the United States. — Columba Bush

Fossil bones and footsteps and ruined homes are the solid facts of history, but the surest hints, the most enduring signs, lie in those miniscule genes. For a moment we protect them with our lives, then like relay runners with a baton, we pass them on to be carried by our descendents. There is a poetry in genetics which is more difficult to discern in broken bomes, and genes are the only unbroken living thread that weaves back and forth through all those boneyards. — Jonathan Kingdon

Are you married? What do you do for agravation? — Henny Youngman

It reflects like an optical instrument and responds to changes in the weather so sensitively that it seems like a part of the sky rather than of the land. And along with all that, Baikal is distinctly Asiatic: if a camel caravan could somehow transport Baikal across Siberia to Europe, and curious buyers unwrapped it in a marketplace, none would mistake it for a lake from around there. — Ian Frazier

Government has never increased the standard of living of one single human being in civilization's history. For some reason that simple truth has evaded everybody. — Steve Wynn

Good sense is at the bottom of everything: virtue, genius, wit, talent and taste. — Joseph Chenier

Give me five players like Robinson and a pitcher and I'll beat any nine-man team in baseball. — Chuck Dressen

Drinking more often brings out the best in the good than the worst in the bad. — Malcolm Forbes

But don't despise error. When touched by genius, when led by chance, the most superior truth can come into being from even the most foolish error. The important inventions which have been brought about in every realm of science from false hypotheses number in the hundreds, indeed in the thousands. — Stefan Zweig

Sometimes one finds that their role in life is to be a supporting character to someone who is destined for greatness. Maybe the world at large doesn't appreciate it, but to the principal and the supporter it can be a very rewarding life. The opinion of the world doesn't really matter in such situations. — Lazlo Zalezac

What counts that we're not counting? — Frank Sonnenberg

One of the great dilemmas for America will be that American companies will do very well while American workers might not. — Fareed Zakaria