Caquot Balloon Quotes

#1. Regulators are a backstop: they don't own banks. The governance at the top of our leading banks has been shown to be lamentably weak. No one at the top of Barclays will take responsibility for systemic abuse.

Vince Cable

#2. I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.

A.S. Byatt

#3. If we don't start thinking big about the CO2 problem, we may miss our opportunity to stop a climate runaway that will trash the habitable parts of the earth.

William H. Calvin

#4. Human beings are afflicted by a need to judge.

Carsten Jensen

#5. The tendency of everyone is to evolve.

Romario

#6. I like the word OLD. Not senior, that's for proms. Older? Older than whom? 'Old' is honorable and ripe

Bel Kaufman

#7. I feel that special secret current between the public and me. I can hold them with one little note in the air, and they will not breathe. That is a great, great moment.

Arthur Rubinstein

#8. I've been working since I was 9, and I've never known a life without a film set.

Daniel Radcliffe

#9. Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.

Barbara Smith

#10. Maybe that's what being alive is about: so we can track down those movments that are dying.

Muriel Barbery

#11. At some point my need for a solution was replaced by the poetry of my continuous failure.

Charles Simic