Reventals Quotes & Sayings

Tried to focus on a particular aspect of this historical moment: the failure of mourning. This is something I haven't seen a great deal of in the writing around this disaster. And my view is that you write about disaster by writing around it, by writing allusively. — Teju Cole

The human brain is the highest bloom of the whole organic metamorphosis of the earth. — Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

I'm very attracted to exile literature - particularly Nabokov - exactly because the idea of being away from home for any serious length of time is so inconceivable to me. — Zadie Smith

In early July, Morgan Stanley received its first wake-up call. It came from Greg Lippmann and his bosses at Deutsche Bank, who, in a conference call, told Howie Hubler and his bosses that the $4 billion in credit default swaps Hubler had sold Deutsche Bank's CDO desk six months earlier had moved in Deutsche Bank's favor. Could Morgan Stanley please wire $1.2 billion to Deutsche Bank by the end of the day? Or, as Lippmann actually put it - according to someone who heard the exchange - Dude, you owe us one point two billion. — Michael Lewis

Parents can't monitor what you are doing on Snapchat. — Ansel Elgort

And if my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle. — Tiffanie DeBartolo

Move fast. Speed is one of your main advantages over large competitors. — Sam Altman

For me, laughter is how we take a much needed break from the heartache, such that when we turn to face it again, it has by some miracle grown smaller in size and intensity, yet not disappeared altogether. — Liz Curtis Higgs

She's not the kind of person to watch someone else build a boat and set sail without her. — Ally Condie

Jobs planned the iPod to be the first of a new generation of portable post-PC devices, but that secret was invisible to most people. — Peter Thiel

What kind of god is it, sir, wishes wrong to go forgotten and unpunished? — Kazuo Ishiguro

Every time I write a nonfiction book I get sued. — Joseph Wambaugh