Passional Boutique Quotes & Sayings

How could anyone be so stupid as to trust a trader? The best thing I could do was pretend to others at Salomon that I had meant to screw the customer. People would respect that. That was called jamming. I had just jammed bonds, albeit unknowingly, for the first time. I had lost my innocence. — Michael Lewis

I would love to travel around the world working for a travel company taking students abroad on cultural immersion trips. — Karen Russell

Then Frank and Percy burst into the open and began to massacre every source of fiber they could find. — Rick Riordan

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Look in the mirror and see the President in you. — Kevin Abdulrahman

In the early Seventies, I started writing a little autobiographical novel about my childhood - I made it into a mystery story. — Bobbie Ann Mason

I had once been splintered into a million beings and objects. Today I am one, tomorrow I shall splinter again. And thus everything in the world decants and modulates. That day I was on the crest of a wave. I knew that all my surroundings were notes of one and the same harmony, knew - secretly - the source and the inevitable resolution of the sounds assembled for an instant, and the new chord that would be engendered by each of the dispersing notes. My soul's musical ear knew and comprehended everything. — Vladimir Nabokov

The dignity we create in the time allotted to us becomes a continuum with the dignity we achieve by the altruism of accepting the necessity of death. — Sherwin B. Nuland

You know, years ago John Calhoun said that West Point men would lead great armies ... He never thought they'd be leading them against each other. Well, if we have to meet like that, I'd rather we never meet again. — Philibert Orry

She tried to pray, but she had only ever prayed at night, and it seemed to her that the moons made poor protectors when angels chose to hunt by day. — Laini Taylor

If knowledge were located in the Pleiades (a constellation of stars), the Persians would surely attain it — Anonymous

The attacks of which I have been the object have broken the spring of life in me ... People don't realize what it feels like to be constantly insulted. — Edouard Manet

I knew that I wanted to be a singer/songwriter when I was much younger and, um, I've been able to, you know, to realize that dream and I'm very pleased with that ... I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry ... Music is an extraordinary vehicle for expressing emotion-very powerful emotions. — Annie Lennox

I don't mind what the role is at all; I just want to play cool characters. — Daniel Cudmore