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 - The Winter's Tale Quotes, Famous Quotations
Two
lads that thought there was no more behind
But such a day to-morrow as to-day,
And to be boy eternal. The Winter's Tale, 1. 2
We
were as twinned lambs that did frisk i' the sun,
And bleat the one at the other: what we changed
Was innocence for innocence; we knew not
The doctrine of ill-doing, nor dreamed
That any did. The Winter's Tale, 1. 2
But
to be paddling palms and pinching fingers,
As now they are, and making practised smiles,
As in a looking-glass. The Winter's Tale, 1. 2
How
like, methought, I then was to this kernel,
This squash, this gentleman. The Winter's Tale, 1. 2
A
sad tale's best for winter: I have one
Of sprites and goblins. The Winter's Tale, 2. 1
There
may be in the cup
A spider steeped, and one may drink, depart,
And yet partake no venom, for his knowledge
Is not infected: but if one present
Th' abhorred ingredient to his eye, make known
How he hath drunk, he cracks his gorge, his sides,
With violent hefts. I have drunk,
and seen the spider. The Winter's Tale, 2. 1
It
is a heretic that makes the fire,
Not she who burns in 't. The Winter's Tale, 2. 3
I
am a feather for each wind that blows. The Winter's Tale, 2. 3
What's
gone and what's past help
Should be past grief. The Winter's Tale, 3. 2
Exit,
pursued by a bear. Stage direction, The Winter's Tale, 3. 3
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