Paul Lewis Quotes

#1. Before Volcker's speech, bonds had been conservative investments, into which investors put their savings when they didn't fancy a gamble in the stock market. After Volcker's speech, bonds became objects of speculation, a means of creating wealth rather than merely storing it.

Michael Lewis

#2. Perthites were like the Swan River's jellyfish - small pink blobs adrift in a warm environment.

Dave Franklin

#3. Longevity-and sanity. Eccentric old ladies on Harleys I can deal with.

Alison Larkin

#4. Had Volcker never pushed through his radical change in policy, the world would be many bond traders and one memoir the poorer.

Michael Lewis

#5. Babbitt knew that in this place of death Paul was already dead. And as he pondered on the train home something in his own self seemed to have died: a loyal and vigorous faith in the goodness of the world, a fear of public disfavor, a pride in success.

Sinclair Lewis

#6. I really have to wonder who or what made Daddy become this way. Babies aren't born cruel or filled with sick desire. Evil is not intrinsic. It's fashioned.

Ellen Hopkins

#7. Jeffrey Lewis sings as though absurdity were truth, and truth absurdity. And I think I agree with him.

Paul Banks

#8. I discovered in belles-lettres that the Giver can be transformed into his own Gift, that is, into a pure object. Chance had made me a man, generosity would make me a book. JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Lewis Hyde

#9. All the reasons that have made software so successful are beginning to happen with hardware. So much can be done so quickly, prototyped so rapidly, and the costs are so low.

Sam Altman

#10. If I didn't believe in what I'm doing, I'd rather go to work in a dime store.

Natalie Wood

#11. and after saying good-by to him at the station, Babbitt returned to his office to realize that he faced a world which, without Paul, was meaningless.

Sinclair Lewis

#12. Will and wisdom are both mighty leaders. Our times worship will.

Clarence Day

#13. I want you forever, not just for tonight.

Sylvain Reynard

#14. I want my images to achieve two things in this regard - to be an elegy to a world that is tragically vanishing, to make people see what beauty is disappearing. Also, to try and show that animals are sentient creatures equally as worthy of life as humans.

Nick Brandt

#15. In the economy of the cuckoo people that populate central banks, everything is possible. What you have is gigantic bubbles, the NASDAQ in 2000, then the housing bubble and then commodities in 2008 when oil went from $78 to $147 before plunging to $32 within six months.

Marc Faber

#16. I cannot be the only reader who has wondered why God, having given him [St. Paul] so many gifts, withheld from him (what would seem so necessary for the first Christian theologian) that of lucidity and orderly exposition.

C.S. Lewis

#17. Not only do I sing to him, I sing entire conversations. You become Jerry Lewis.

Paul Reiser

#18. I'm very close with my higher power. I have a very strong connection with it.

Fergie

#19. The question is, rather, whether or not America is to enter a new and distressing phase of history where men no longer pursue happiness but buy it.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#20. I wanted to know if the 'Iliad' in the original was as relevant and contemporary as it was in translation. I then started Latin. I had finally found something I enjoyed and was good at: dead languages!

Caroline Lawrence

#21. As St. Paul points out, Christ never meant that we were to remain children in intelligence: on the contrary, He told us to be not only "as harmless as doves," but also "as wise as serpents." He wants a child's heart, but a grown-up's head.

C.S. Lewis

#22. Love ought to stop on both sides, don't you think, simultaneously?' He spoke without any stress on the words, so as not to wake the sleepers. 'But it won't - that's the devil,' he added in the same undertone.

Virginia Woolf

#23. I thought at the time of my parents' divorce that I was upset by deeper, more profound things and I was just taking it out on the joint custody agreement. But that disruption was bad enough. That was a huge deal for a teenager.

Noah Baumbach

#24. The shame of emotion overpowered them; they cursed a little, to prove they were good rough fellows; and in a mellow silence, Babbitt whistling while Paul hummed, they paddled back to the hotel.

Sinclair Lewis