Quotes of the Week - Nov 10, 2009:
"I wish they caught me six years ago, eight years ago." --
Bernie Madoff, jailed financier and Ponzi schemer, in newly released
interview with representatives of the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
"This is all happening because my father didn't buy me a train
set as a kid." --Warren Buffett, investor, on his company's $26
billion purchase of Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad - its biggest
deal ever.
"I went to sleep as Rihanna and woke up as Britney Spears."
-- Rihanna, pop singer, on the unprecedented levels of media attention
she endured after she was assaulted by former boyfriend Chris Brown
in February.
Authors:
Shakespeare - A Midsummer Night's Dream Quotes, Quotations
Night's
swift dragons cut the clouds full fast,
And yonder shines Aurora's harbinger;
At whose approach, ghosts, wandering here and there,
Troop home to churchyards. A Midsummer Night's Dream, 3. 2
Cupid
is a knavish lad,
Thus to make poor females mad. A Midsummer Night's Dream, 3. 2
Jack
shall have Jill;
Nought shall go ill;
The man shall have his mare again, and all shall be well. A Midsummer Night's Dream, 3. 2
I
have an exposition of sleep come upon me. A Midsummer Night's Dream, 4. 1
My
Oberon! what visions have I seen!
Methought I was enamoured of an ass. A Midsummer Night's Dream, 4. 1
I
was with Hercules and Cadmus once,
When in a wood of Crete they bayed the bear
With hounds of Sparta: never did I hear
So musical a discord, such sweet thunder. A Midsummer Night's Dream, 4. 1
I
have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was. A Midsummer Night's Dream, 4. 1
The
eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's
hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart
to report, what my dream was. A Midsummer Night's Dream, 4. 1
The
lunatic, the lover, and the poet
Are of imagination all compact. A Midsummer Night's Dream, 5. 1
The
lover, all as frantic,
Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt:
The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven;
And as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name. A Midsummer Night's Dream, 5. 1