Marderosian Music Quotes & Sayings

The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. — Oscar Wilde

While the meetings included traders, that is, people who are judged on their numerical performance, it was mostly a forum for salespeople (people capable of charming customers), and the category of entertainers called Wall Street "economists" or "strategists," who make pronouncements on the fate of the markets, but do not engage in any form of risk taking, thus having their success dependent on rhetoric rather than actually testable facts. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment. — Robert Benchley

The problem play is a melodrama cleansed of invention. — David Mamet

You do have all five sense when you're in a room together. You communicate and understand each other in a much deeper way. It is a different form of communication from writing or being on the web. — Gloria Steinem

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself. — Liberty Hyde Bailey

Jon relished the stories they were telling, tales of battle and bedding and the hunt. He — George R R Martin

[On hearing that Clare Boothe Luce was invariably kind to her inferiors:] And where does she find them? — Dorothy Parker

The world to come will be like this triangular railroad junction, raised to some unknown power. The earth has lived through several evolutionary stages - but following always natural laws. It is presently experiencing a new one, which follows constructive, conscious, and no less elemental laws. Regret for the passing of the old forms is like the grief of some antediluvian creature for the disappearance of a prehistoric habitat. — Joseph Roth

Right now I'm pretty single ... My career is my boyfriend. — Christina Aguilera

Today, antibiotics are as common as a cup of coffee. In the 1950s they were relatively new. Today, over-use has reduced their efficacy but in the 1950s they really were a miracle drug. Sister Monica Joan had never had penicillin before, and responded immediately. — Jennifer Worth