“I am worried that the collapse of home prices might turn out to be the most severe since the Great Depression.” Quote by Robert J. Shiller
“Leo Messi is a spectacular player, there is nobody else like him. I should not because I have suffered so much in training. I think he is the best forward at the moment and I think he will be so for many more years. He has his feet on the ground.” ThinkingShouldYearsMomentsPlayerFeetTrainingSpectacularMessiFeet On The GroundLeo Messi Author:Carles Puyol
“I don't have Romário's technique, [Marc] Overmars' pace or [Patrick] Kluivert's strength. But I work harder than the others. I'm like the student who is not as clever, but revises for his exams and does OK in the end.” DoeEndsStudentsHard WorkHarderTechniqueCleverPaceWork HarderExamRio Author:Carles Puyol
“My parents were skeptical about me becoming a footballer and encouraged me to study.” ParentStudyBecomingSkepticalFootballer Author:Carles Puyol
“Science fiction is the characteristic literary genre of the century. It is the genre that stands in opposition to literary modernism.” FictionCenturyScience FictionGenreCharacteristicsOppositionModernismLiterary Genre Author:David G. Hartwell
“You can flush my ashes down the toilet, for all I care.” CareAshesI CareToilets Author:Carolyn Heilbrun
“Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions.” TodayTomorrowShockConventions Book:Toward a recognition of androgyny Source: Toward a recognition of androgyny
“The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.” KnowsMarriageTakenImpossibleRiskTerribleMarriedIntimacy Author:Carolyn Heilbrun
“The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure.” TwoUsePleasureCommonFictionNovelHonestTaughtBrokenDiscoverySectsBroken Down Author:Carl Clinton Van Doren
“The crowd is just as important as the group. It takes everything to make it work.” ImportantGroupsCrowds Author:Levon Helm
“Maybe the greatness we heard in [Richard Manuel]'s voice, that catch in it, came from all that pain. To this day, we don't really know.” KnowsPainVoiceHeardGreatnessThis Day Author:Levon Helm