Reading Wall Street Journal Bond Quotes & Sayings

The solitude was intoxicating. On my first night there I lay on my back on the sticky carpet for hours, in the murky orange pool of city glow coming through the window, smelling heady curry spices spiraling across the corridor and listening to two guys outside yelling at each other in Russian and someone practicing stormy flamboyant violin somewhere, and slowly realizing that there was not a single person in the world who could see me or ask me what I was doing or tell me to do anything else, and I felt as if at any moment the bedsit might detach itself from the buildings like a luminous soap bubble and drift off into the night, bobbing gently above the rooftops and the river and the stars. — Tana French

Mom's dad was in the army, stormed the beach at Normandy, fought through the French hedgerows, the Battle of the Ardennes, the Battle of the Bulge, and liberated concentration camps at the end of the war. — Mark Hoppus

You journalists bulldoze life's mysteries, ignorant of what you're so ruthlessly turning up. — Marisha Pessl

Like all power spots, it needs to be treated with respect. — Frederick Lenz

Perhaps this sounds very simple, but simple things are always the most difficult. In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and the acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook upon life. — Carl Jung

Struggle is nature's way of strengthening it — John Locke

I never imagined I'd be a solo artist. And now I couldn't imagine being part of a group. — Morrissey

To draw true beauty shows a master's hand. — John Dryden

Shell estimates that after 2015 supplies of easy-to-access oil and gas will no longer keep up with demand. — Jeroen Van Der Veer

We all see what we want to see. — Irvine Welsh

The witness has forced himself to testify. For the youth of today, for the children who will be born tomorrow. He does not want his past to become their future. — Elie Wiesel

Share and enjoy the fruits of this planet. — Chuck D

Cheating on a quiz show? That's sort of like plagiarizing a comic strip. — Paul Scofield

Those who make a practice of comparing human actions are never so perplexed as when they try to see them as a whole and in the same light; for they commonly contradict each other so strangely that it seems impossible that they have come from the same shop. — Michel De Montaigne