#ding

There is a kind of fear, approaching a panic, that's spreading through the Baby Boom Generation, which has suddenly discovered that it will have to provide for its own retirement. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#baby #boom #discovered #fear #generation

My father and his brothers were all lawyers, so I think that the expectation was probably for me to grow up to be an attorney, but it never really fascinated me that much. I was more interested in building things. ↗

— Steve Case

#brothers #building #expectation #fascinated #father

It seems astounding to me now that the video games are perhaps as important as the movie themselves. And people will spend 2 or 3 years obsessing about the video game in exactly the same way that they'd be obsessing about the movie if they were working on that. ↗

— John Cleese

#astounding #exactly #game #games #important

Building a mechanical device for its appearance is like putting lace on a bowling ball. ↗

— Andrew Vachss

#ball #bowling #building #device #lace

I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#book #brooks #century #early #i

The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love in the Time of Cholera, Pale Fire. ↗

— Michael Chabon

#back #books #cholera #fire #going

Even with not having a balanced budget at this time, I support tax cuts. That will help limit spending. ↗

— Steve Chabot

#balanced budget #budget #cuts #even #having

The fact that it wasn't tells me that we've got a much more fundamental problem of understanding what went wrong, and we've got to figure out what was there. And that's what I call fundamental fault analysis. ↗

— David Kay

#call #fact #fault #figure #fundamental

As a former Republican, I represent a group of Americans who all too often have no one to speak for them. This group doesn't necessarily have a name. We've been called 'moderates,' but that term can be misleading. ↗

— Lincoln Chafee

#called #former #group #i #misleading

Dubai was a property bubble. Plain and simple. Go to Dubai and see what happened. It was... what I call it the 'Edifice complex' - it's just, we can grow by putting up lots and lots of buildings and trying to attract people to come here, stay here, and put up offices here and sooner or later, you put up too many. ↗

— James Chanos

#bubble #buildings #call #come #complex