Scarlata Kate Quotes & Sayings

Only a hundred years ago the idea that an order might arise without a personal Author appeared so nonsensical to you that it inspired seemingly absurd jokes, like the one about the pack of monkeys hammering away at typewriters until the Encyclopedia Britannica emerged. I recommend that you devote some of your free time to compiling an anthology of just such jokes, which amused your forebears as pure nonsense but now turn out to be parables of Nature. — Stanislaw Lem

The next year, their first child was born and they named her Katie Scarlett, — Margaret Mitchell

California is going to be quite good for the Democrats. But the rest of the country is a draw. — Stuart Rothenberg

What inspires a poem for me is usually a moment. — Sherman Alexie

I suppose, I hoped, by setting a particularly brutal ancient rite in the present and in my own village to shock the story's readers with a graphic dramatization of the pointless violence and general inhumanity in their own lives. — Shirley Jackson

I like to write at home a lot. — Rodney Atkins

The mother- poor invaded soul- finds even the bathroom door no bar to hammering little hands. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

My dream role would be anything where I get to tap-dance. — Dule Hill

Some people are conduits for misery. — Harlan Coben

We are constantly immersed in a network of signs and symbols whose meaning eludes us, but which, if only we could read them, would reveal every detail of our past and even predict our future. Like anticipatory echoes, they tingle in our consciousness, building in crescendo until the event they herald becomes fully manifest. Afterwards, they linger for a time before being drowned out by a new tide of signs rushing in upon us. Such signatures are everywhere... — Linda Lappin

LTCM is now a classic case of "fat tails" in finance. Portfolio math mimics diffusion physics - a scattergram of the outcomes from trillions of small random movements maps smoothly onto a bell curve. In well-behaved markets, finance looks much the same. But markets are rarely well-behaved for long, and big deviations from the norm happen very frequently in finance - the finance bell curve, that is, has fat tails. When Russia defaulted on its sovereign bonds in 1998, it was a fat tail for LTCM, and it was on the wrong side of the trade, with very heavy leverage. — Charles R. Morris

If Life is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits? — Erma Bombeck

What Chinese parents understand is that nothing is fun until you're good at it.
pg 29 — Amy Chua

Please sir, eat the nuts that are here for you. - Melamie Masters — Ray Palla