Grignon Quotes

#1. Banking doesn't involve fraud, banking IS fraud.
(from video by Paul Grignon done for United Financial Consumers (2002) )
(Added to goodreads by Mike Tobin)

Tim Madden

#2. Love wants to rise, not to be held down by anything base ... He who loves flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back. Derive happiness from yourself, from a good day's work, from the clearing that it makes in the fog that surrounds us.

Henri Matisse

#3. I am not belittling the brave pioneer men but the sunbonnet as well as the sombrero has helped to settle this glorious land of ours.

Edna Ferber

#4. Through Transcendental Meditation, the human brain can
experience that level of intelligence which is an ocean of all
knowledge, energy, intelligence, and bliss.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#5. The hounding of a dog pursuing a fox or other animal in the horizon may have first suggested the notes of the hunting-horn to alternate with and relieve the lungs of the dog. This natural bugle long resounded in the woods of the ancient world before the horn was invented.

Henry David Thoreau

#6. I was no hero. The dearest wishes of my heart were for safety and tranquility. The world was a perilous place, wrong for the likes of me.

Gail Carson Levine

#7. I'd love to do a cop film in America. That's a genre I absolutely adore.

Danny Boyle

#8. Not surprisingly, extensive effort in Britain and America goes into finding tax shelter. the system is "efficient" for the shelter industry, not for the economy.

Robert Kuttner

#9. It can't always be a honeymoon

Tony Parsons

#10. Hallelujah might be putting itself on the map, but that mark would be made in blood, as well as iron.

Devon Monk

#11. You cannot pretend to read a book. Your eyes will give you away. So will your breathing. A person entranced by a book simply forgets to breathe. The house can catch alight and a reader deep in a book will not look up until the wallpaper is in flames.

Lloyd Jones

#12. Poverty is often equated with liability. How cruel this world is?

Moutasem Algharati

#13. The best lessons of life are learnt in silence and solitude.

Abhijit Naskar

#14. Girls aren't very good at keeping maps in their brains", said Edmund, "That's because we've got something in them", replied Lucy.

C.S. Lewis

#15. Bipartisanship isn't an option anymore; it is a requirement. The American people have divided responsibility for leadership right down the middle.

Tom Daschle