Tamaron Quotes & Sayings

The government-sponsored institution Fannie Mae, when I look at its risks, seems to be sitting on a barrel of dynamite, vulnerable to the slightest hiccup. But not to worry: their large staff of scientists deemed these events "unlikely." — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Basically, I'm a really bad interviewer. I love meeting celebrities, but then I get a bit bored. Once you meet them you thing, 'really, what an ordinary person'. — Graham Norton

Betty's lesson is much deeper than I ever expected:I wanted popularity; I wanted other people to like me. But it turns out most people are wanting to be discovered too. — Maya Van Wagenen

Kudzu: the vine that ate the South. — Wendy Higgins

Some days are just bad days, that's all. You have to experience sadness to know happiness, and I remind myself that not every day is going to be a good day, that's just the way it is! — Dita Von Teese

She had helped him to endure the suffering as lovingly as she had helped him to discover happiness. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I don't have a ton of enemies. I get along with people pretty well when I'm not annoying them to death. — Joss Whedon

The real measure of success is how one feels about being alive. — Marty Rubin

It is not a vending-machine world, however, in which every coin of sin that is inserted results in individually packaged retribution. — Anonymous

This letter is written on the skin of one of the water sprites who drowned your parents.'
'Ick!' I cried, and dropped the letter on the kitchen table. — Charlaine Harris

The idea of luxury, even the word "luxury," was important to Arabella. Luxury meant something that was by definition overpriced, but was so nice, so lovely, in itself that you did not mind, in fact was so lovely that the expensiveness became part of the point, part of the distinction between the people who could not afford a thing and the select few who not only could, but also understood the desirability of paying so much for it. Arabella knew that there were thoughtlessly rich people who could afford everything; she didn't see herself as one of them but instead as one of an elite who both knew what money meant and could afford the things they wanted; and the knowledge of what money meant gave the drama of high prices a special piquancy. She loved expensive things because she knew what their expensiveness meant. She had a complete understanding of the signifiers. — John Lanchester

Many men can no more be kept straight by spiritual motives than we can live without policemen. — Lord Acton

It's not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts. — Zig Ziglar