Klefisch Auction Quotes & Sayings

It's abundantly clear that we already have extraterrestrials living among us, and people are stepping forward who can communicate with them. — Sylvia Browne

Mitt Romney said he's not concerned about the very poor. What he means is people making less than a million. — David Letterman

I'm vain because I'm imperfect. — Pete Doherty

Writing is like everything else: the more you do it the better you get. Don't try to perfect as you go along, just get to the end of the damn thing. Accept imperfections. Get it finished and then you can go back. If you try to polish every sentence there's a chance you'll never get past the first chapter. — Iain Banks

Finance is concerned with the relations between the values of securities and their risk, and with the behavior of those values. It aspires to be a practical, like physics or chemistry or electrical engineering. As John Maynard Keynes once remarked about economics, "If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid." Dentists rely on science, engineering, empirical knowledge, and heuristics, and there are no theorems in dentistry. Similarly, one would hope that nance would be concerned with laws rather than theorems, with behavior rather than assumptions. One doesn't seriously describe the behavior of a market with theorems. — Emanuel Derman

Here's what I believe. We have control over ourselves at every single moment. We don't control the world. We don't control other people (or at least, we shouldn't.) But we are in control of our experience at all times. — Stephen Lovegrove

Jesus comes from Nazareth, a town from which folks said nothing good could come. He knew suffering from the moment he entered the world as a baby refugee born in the middle of a genocide. Jesus knew poverty and pain until he was tortured and executed on a Roman cross. This is the Jesus we are called to follow. With his coming we learn that the most dangerous place for Christians to be is in comfort and safety, detached from the suffering of others. Places that are physically safe can be spiritually deadly. — Shane Claiborne

The benefits from a world currency would be enormous. — Robert Mundell

Pain fades," I said slowly. "But being a nutcase seems to stick around. Guess who got the better deal here?" The last thing I remember is Mr. Chu's face blazing with fury. — James Patterson

All books are butterflies, having lived the life of a caterpillar. — Suzanne Brandyn

The shadow banking sector has played an important role in cleaning up toxic assets. — Anshu Jain

Just that what happens today or next week or next year isn't necessarily the way things are always going to be. As soon as you settle into a routine, life throws you a curveball. Sometimes you hit it, sometimes you don't. — Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Marxism is the modern form of Jewish prophecy. — Reinhold Niebuhr

Why climb the corporate ladder when you can build an elevator in your own building? — Joshua E. Leyenhorst