“Many mornings I check out the news as soon as I wake up, because if it turns out that the world is coming to an end that day, I am going to eat the frosting off an entire carrot cake; just for a start. Then I will move onto vats of clam dip, pots of crime brûlée, nachos, M & M's etc. Then I will max out both my credit cards.” IfsWorldEndsMovingTurnsMorningCrimeFutureNewsWake UpCreditChecksCardsEtcPotCakeMaxCredit CardDipCarrotsComing To An EndClamsVatNachos Author:Anne Lamott
“There is one curious fact noticeable in regard to this thing called "luck," which is, that while it is made responsible for any turn of affairs that we feel to be discreditable to us, it rarely has credit for an opposite state of things; but, like most other faithful allies in victory, comes poorly off.” FeelsMadeStatesFactsTurnsVictoryOppositesResponsibleRegardLuckAffairCreditCuriousFaithfulAllies Author:William Matthews
“Since the eighteenth century the immense expansion of the worlds wealth has come about as a result of a correspondingly immense expansion of credit, which in turn has demanded increasingly stupendous suspensions of disbelief.” WorldTurnsWealthResultsCenturyCreditImmenseExpansionDisbeliefSuspensionSuspension Of Disbelief Author:Lewis H. Lapham
“I must speak the truth, even at the risk of being ostracized by my fellow scribblers. In fact, anticipating their rage, I have already applied for a place in the Canada Council's witness-protection program. This because, much as it pains me to turn on my kind, I fear the time has come to admit that far too many celebrated writers were outrageous liars, philanderers, drunks, druggies, unsuitable babysitters, plagiarists, psychopaths, parasites, cowards, indifferent dads or moms and bad credit risks.” KindFactsPainTurnsSpeakRiskMomDadProgramFellowsCreditProtectionRageWitnessCanadaLiarsCowardIndifferentCouncilTurn-onOutrageousSpeak The TruthPsychopathParasitesBabysitterPhilandererDruggies Author:Mordecai Richler
“I've always felt that people's ears are wider than programmers are ever wiling to give them credit for. It's always been very important to me that you not have to turn me off because your kids are in the back seat.” PeopleGivingImportantKidsTurnsFeltEarsCreditSeatsProgrammersTurn Me Author:Donnie Simpson
“how could advice be successful? If it turns out right, the adviser is ignored and the advisee takes all the credit. If it proves mistaken, the adviser receives all the blame.” IfsTurnsSuccessfulAdviceProveBlameCreditBeing SuccessfulIgnoredMistakenAdviser Book:The Rest of My Life Source: The Rest of My Life
“Once public opinion is convinced that the increase in the quantity of money will continue and never come to an end, and that consequently the prices of all commodities will not cease to rise, everybody becomes eager to buy as much as possible and restrict his cash holdings to minimum size... If the credit expansion is not stopped in time, the boom turns to crack-up boom: the flight into real values begins, and the whole monetary system founders.” IfsRealEndsWholeValuesTurnsOpinionIncreaseInvestingSizeCreditConvincedCeaseFlightCracksCashQuantityFoundersMinimumExpansionCommodityPublic OpinionMonetaryReal ValueMonetary System Author:Ludwig von Mises
“During the 1970s and 1980s, the popular television soap opera As The World Turns portrayed sunrise during the opening credits and sunset during the closing credits... The soap-opera sunrise showed the sun moving toward the left as it rose rather than to the right. They obviously had gotten a piece of film showing a sunset and played it in reverse... Had they called their local astrophysicists, any one of us might have recommended that if they needed to save money, they could have shown the sunset in a mirror before they showed it running backward.” IfsWorldMightRunningFilmMovingTurnsCultureLeftSunPiecesTelevisionNeededMirrorsRoseCreditLocalsOpeningSunsetOperaReverseSunriseClosingSoapSaving MoneySoap OperasRunning Back Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“The fumes of the most disordered imaginations were recorded in their religious code, as special communications of the Deity; and as it could not but happen that, in the course of ages, events would now and then turn up to which some of these vague rhapsodies might be accommodated by the aid of allegories, figures, types, and other tricks upon words, they have not only preserved their credit with the Jews of all subsequent times, but are the foundation of much of the religions of those who have schismatised from them.” MightHappensAgeTurnsCoursesImaginationReligiousAtheismSpecialEventsFiguresCommunicationTypeFoundationJewCreditPositive AtheismAidsTricksCodeNow And ThenVagueDeitiesAllegory Book:Letters Source: Letters