Wormer Schedule Quotes & Sayings

After Volcker's speech, bonds became objects of speculation, a means of creating wealth rather than merely storing it. Overnight the bond market was transformed from a backwater into a casino. — Michael Lewis

I've wasted the last five years of my life dealing in religious articles. People today find spiritual solace in ballroom dancing. — Ben Katchor

The power is to set the agenda. What we print and what we don't print matter a lot. — Katharine Graham

I'm going to leave, I'm going to take my train. But behind the existence which falls from one present to the other, without a past, without a future, behind these sounds which decompose from day to day, peel off and slip towards death, the melody stays the same, young and firm, like a pitiless witness. — Jean-Paul Sartre

If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme. — Pablo Picasso

Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent. — Vernon Howard

What is really important in Man is the part of him that we do not understand. Of much of it we are not even conscious, just as we are not normally conscious of keeping up our circulation by our heart-pump, though if we neglect it we die. — George Bernard Shaw

If somebody in the crowd spits at you, you've got to swallow it. — Gary Lineker

Whatsoever accidents Or qualities our sense make us think there be in the world, they are not there, but are seemings and apparitions only. The things that really are in the world without us, are those motions by which these seemings are caused. And this is the great deception of sense, which also is by sense to be corrected. For as sense telleth me, when I see directly, that the colour seemeth to be in the object; so also sense telleth me, when I see by reflection, that colour is not in the object. — Thomas Hobbes