#bubbles

In all our quest of greatness, like wanton boys, whose pastime is their care, we follow after bubbles, blown in the air. ↗

— John Webster

#air #blown #bubbles #care #follow

You know how fighting fish do it? They blow bubbles and in each one of those bubbles is an egg and they float the egg up to the surface. They keep this whole heavy nest of eggs floating, and they're constantly repairing it. It's as if they live in both elements. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#both #bubbles #constantly #each #egg

Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception. ↗

— George Soros

#basis #bubbles #distorted #grow #market

Bubbles was a very good dancer. Tremendous dancer. He was one of our leading dancers of the country at that time. And, of course, he didn't have much of a voice. ↗

— Cab Calloway

#country #course #dancer #dancers #good

I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#am #avoid #bubbles #hard #hat

Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all. ↗

— John Greenleaf Whittier

#fall #field #flower #fools #fortune

Concentrating wealth in the hands of the few and deregulating financial institutions and practices lead to speculative bubbles that eventually burst - and that brings the whole country down. ↗

— Jennifer Granholm

#bubbles #burst #concentrating #country #down

A meringue is really nothing but a foam. And what is a foam after all, but a big collection of bubbles? And what's a bubble? It's basically a very flimsy little latticework of proteins draped with water. We add sugar to this structure, which strengthens it. But things can, and do, go wrong. ↗

— Alton Brown

#after #basically #big #bubble #bubbles

The goal of long-run economic growth without asset price bubbles is not only achievable, but is something we should expect if we put a sound regulatory framework in place and if policymakers remain vigilant. ↗

— Christina Romer

#bubbles #economic #economic growth #expect #framework

We are told that the trouble with modern man is that he has been trying to detach himself from nature... In this scenario, Man comes on as a stupendous lethal force, and the Earth is pictured as something delicate, like rising bubbles at the surface of a country pond, or flights of fragile birds. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#birds #bubbles #comes #country #delicate