Jay Pritzker Quotes

#1. Believing the world is calm because we have never seen it otherwise is like taking the attitude of a man who jumps off the top of a tall building and figures that, since 29 of the 30 floors have passed without incident, he is going to be okay.

Stephen Webb

#2. They said love made you strong, but in Louise's opinion it made you weak. It corkscrewed into your heart and you couldn't get it out again, not without ripping your heart to pieces.

Kate Atkinson

#3. Me?" "Yeah you," he said, giving me a wry smile. "I gave you my number half expecting you would never call, and so when you did ... why do you think I was so gung ho about driving all the way out here? I wanted to spend time with you.

Alicia Thompson

#4. I seem to have been everywhere in the last 30 years, maybe not in the epicenter but flying around the periphery of extraordinary events and equally extraordinary people.

Rupert Everett

#5. I like superheroes. I like the drama of it, the stirring, larger-than-life aspect.

Kurt Busiek

#6. A minuscule 4 percent of funds produce market-beating after-tax results with a scant 0.6 percent (annual) margin of gain. The 96 percent of funds that fail to meet or beat the Vanguard 500 Index Fund lose by a wealth-destroying margin of 4.8 percent per annum.

David F. Swensen

#7. How easy it is, Doctor, to be a philosopher on paper, and how difficult in real life!

Anton Chekhov

#8. The hardest novel to write was Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.

Anne Tyler

#9. I'm lucky that it's about fashion and perfume and cosmetics. If my father had owned a tire company, I don't know what I would have done.

Delphine Arnault

#10. These measures may not constitute an absolute guarantee of peace, but, in my opinion, they constitute the greatest preventive measures ever adopted by nations.

Frank B. Kellogg