Late 2000s Recession Quotes & Sayings

I added five shots to my coffee, because that's all the bullets my magazine can hold. — Jarod Kintz

How difficult it is for those of us preoccupied with the humdrum concerns of adulthood to recall how forcefully we were once buffeted by the passions and longings of youth ... 'The older person does not realize the soul-flights of the adolescent ... ' (pg. 185) — Jon Krakauer

And you are the girl's bitch, forever. — Alison Goodman

You can't go back; I can't go back either, but we can go on. — Christine Feehan

Don't kiss me again," she begged softly as she stood. — Iris Blobel

One year I was given a birthday present I'll never forget - a cooking lesson from Jamie Oliver. — Gwyneth Paltrow

This is the permanent tension that lies at the heart of a capitalist democracy and is exacerbated in times of crisis. In order to ensure the survival of the richest, it is democracy that has to be heavily regulated rather than capitalism. — Tariq Ali

My own death threats have declined considerably. — Ian McKellen

We don't have a full black community in Boston. Our people are scattered. There's a middle class where I live in Highland Park but it's not like a piece of Washington or Chicago. — Henry Hampton

It has become more acceptable to describe yourself as a conservative, but not everyone who uses that term about themselves really is truly conservative. — Jesse Helms

I know a person who, though no poet, composed some verses in a very short time, which were full of feeling and admirably descriptive of her pain: they did not come from her understanding, but, in order the better to enjoy the bliss which came to her from such delectable pain, she complained of it to her God. She would have been so glad if she could have been cut to pieces, body and soul, to show what joy this pain caused her. What torments could have been set before her at such a time which she would not have found it delectable to endure for her Lord's sake? — Teresa Of Avila

There are a lot of historical novelists who do the research about the clothes and maybe even the eating utensils, but they're basically taking modern people and putting them in old drag - it's sort of the 'Gone With the Wind' approach. — Edmund White

Beta and modern portfolio theory and the like - none of it makes any sense to me. — Charlie Munger