Takushi Wong Quotes & Sayings

We select such investments on a long-term basis, weighing the same factors as would be involved in the purchase of 100% of an operating business: (1) favorable long-term economic characteristics; (2) competent and honest management; (3) purchase price attractive when measured against the yardstick of value to a private owner; and (4) an industry with which we are familiar and whose long-term business characteristics we feel competent to judge. — Warren Buffett

Expressiveness in others enriched Mrs. Singer's confidence in her own interpretations, possibly because a certain fear that she had not accomplished anything in her life left her all the more desirous of discovering easy clues to less consequential questions. — William T. Vollmann

We took from him, ... proclaimed ourselves sole rulers of the earth, though we have not yet been able to complete our work. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Romeo and Juliet were stunning and beautiful, but a lot of the other characters surrounding them were caricatures. — Douglas Booth

God often grants in a moment what He has long denied. — Thomas A Kempis

I don't like Paris so much. — Bam Margera

You'll never know your limits until you push yourself to them. — K. Bromberg

There's a wonderful tradition of jazz people getting on stage and jamming and finding some feeling for music with audiences who may be fresh. For others, it might be just like a comfortable shirt they've been wearing. — Al Jarreau

He who excels in his art so as to carry it to the utmost height of perfection of which it is capable may be said in some measure to go beyond it: his transcendent productions admit of no appellations. — Jean De La Bruyere

For whoever believes that great advancement and new benefits make men forget old injuries is mistaken. — Niccolo Machiavelli

I had, of course, no model for that sort of woman being married, but I can make that up as I go along. — Elizabeth Moon