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 - Twelfth Night Quotes, Famous Quotations
Then
let thy love be younger than thyself,
Or thy affection cannot hold the bent. Twelfth Night, 2. 4
The
spinsters and the knitters in the sun. Twelfth Night, 2. 4
Come
away, come away, death,
And in sad cypress let me be laid;
Fly away, fly away breath;
I am slain by a fair cruel maid. Twelfth Night, 2. 4
Now,
the melancholy god protect thee; and the tailor make thy doublet
of changeable taffeta, for thy mind is a very opal. Twelfth Night, 2. 4
My
father had a daughter loved a man,
As it might be, perhaps, were I a woman,
I should your lordship. Twelfth Night, 2. 4
DUKE:
And what's her history?
VIOLA: A blank, my lord. She never told her love,
But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud,
Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought,
And with a green and yellow melancholy
She sat like patience on a monument,
Smiling at grief. Was not this love indeed? Twelfth Night, 2. 4
I
am all the daughters of my father's house,
And all the brothers too. Twelfth Night, 2. 4
Now
is the woodcock near the gin. Twelfth Night, 2. 5
I
may command where I adore. Twelfth Night, 2. 5
But
be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve
greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. Twelfth Night, 2. 5