Preening Synonyms Quotes & Sayings

The money has to be deferred with what they call "clawback," which means they can get it back if I lose it all. So that guy making ten million a year selling credit default swaps, if we're going to keep five million of it in escrow for ten years, and with the right to go back and get it, if he starts losing money, then we're going to give people the right incentives not too take so much risk. — Richard Thaler

Many art-worlders have an if-you-say-so approach to art: Everyone is so scared of missing out on the next hot artist that it's never clear whether people are liking work because they like it or because other people do. Everyone is keeping up with the Joneses, and there are more Joneses than ever. — Jerry Saltz

They think the banjo can only be happy, but that's not true. — Bela Fleck

After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations. — H.L. Mencken

Democracy no longer means what it was meant to. It has been taken back into the workshop. Each of its institutions has been hollowed out, and it has been returned to us as a vehicle for the free market, of the corporations. For the corporations, by the corporations. — Arundhati Roy

Words are the weak support of cold indifference; love has no language to be heard. — William Congreve

His brother never untied a knot when he could slash it in two with his sword. — George R R Martin

Maybe you have to live under cover for a while before you can find your true character. — Hugo Hamilton

The whole of my life, what they wanted was honesty. They were not concerned with cultured football, but with triers who gave one hundred percent. — Bob Paisley