Wall Street Journal Business Columnist Quotes

#1. Pity for him who one day looks uponhis inward sphinx and questions it. He is lost.

Ruben Dario

#2. My ears have been saturated with other people's works recently; today I will hear only my own.

Caitriona Lally

#3. It's really about, oh come on, this guy wouldn't say that or he wouldn't do that, you know, it's about the characters, about the story, about the situation.

Walter Hill

#4. We all play by the same rules. But some people spend more time reading those rules and figuring out how to make them work in their behalf.

Garth Stein

#5. Allowing fear to hold you back won't get you anywhere worth being.

Kira Saito

#6. I have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That doesn't mean I haven't wanted it to be excellent.

Twyla Tharp

#7. Nomenclature, the other foundation of botany, should provide the names as soon as the classification is made ... If the names are unknown knowledge of the things also perishes ... For a single genus, a single name.

Carl Linnaeus

#8. He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

George Herbert

#9. It's nice to have money, but the first thing I did with money was buy my father a snow-blower, because my job was to shovel snow, and I wasn't there to do it any more, so I was able to buy him a blower.

Richard Gere

#10. Suddenly one of these gypsies in trembling opal, seizes a cocktail out of the air, dumps it down for courage and moving her hands like Frisco dances out alone on the canvas platform.

F Scott Fitzgerald