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 - Troilus and Cressida Quotes, Famous Quotations
Beauty,
wit,
High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service,
Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all
To envious and calumniating time.
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. Troilus and Cressida, 3. 3
A
plague of opinion! a man may wear it on both sides, like a leather
jerkin. Troilus and Cressida, 3. 3
What
a pair of spectacles is here! Pandarus [of the Lovers], Troilus and Cressida,
4. 4
Fie,
fie upon her!
There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip,
Nay, her foot speaks; her wanton spirits look out
At every joint and motive of her body. Troilus and Cressida, 4. 5
What's
past and what's to come is strewed with husks
And formless ruin of oblivion. Troilus and Cressida, 4. 5
The
end crowns all,
And that old common arbitrator, Time,
Will one day end it. Troilus and Cressida, 4. 5
Lechery,
lechery; still, wars and lechery: nothing else holds fashion. Troilus and Cressida, 5. 2
Words,
words, mere words, no matter from the heart. Troilus and Cressida, 5. 3
Hector
is dead; there is no more to say. Troilus and Cressida, 5. 10