#rice

There is plenty of blame to go around for the U.S. housing bubble, but not much of it belongs to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The two giant housing-finance institutions made many mistakes over the decades, some of them real whoppers, but causing house prices to soar and then crater during the past decade weren't among them. ↗

— Mark Zandi

#around #belongs #blame #bubble #causing

It's a question of spreading the available energy, aerobic and anaerobic, evenly over four minutes. If you run one part too fast, you pay a price. If you run another part more slowly your overall time is slower. ↗

— Roger Bannister

#another #available #energy #evenly #fast

Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock. ↗

— Paul Getty

#carry #company #control #does #price

Maurice would prance into a room, you know, and his presence was immediate. ↗

— Barry Gibb

#immediate #into #know #maurice #presence

He was the average guy. Maurice, I think, reflected every man. ↗

— Barry Gibb

#average guy #every #every man #guy #i

It's very questionable, and we will pursue every factor, every element, every second of the timeline, of the final hours of Maurice's life. We will pursue that relentlessly. That will be our quest from now on. ↗

— Barry Gibb

#every #every second #factor #final #hours

Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly. ↗

— Barry Gibb

#being silly #liked #man #maurice #silly

No one knew me until I met my wife Lulu. Lulu's mother used to ask, Which one is Maurice? For six months she thought Lulu was dating Barry. ↗

— Maurice Gibb

#barry #dating #i #knew #lulu

We will pursue every factor, every element, every second of the timeline, of the final hours of Maurice's life. We will pursue that relentlessly. That will be our quest from now on. ↗

— Robin Gibb

#every #every second #factor #final #hours

I hadn't accepted he was seriously ill. The idea that someone so close to you couldn't wake up was utterly incomprehensible. Then the doctor came in... Maurice had no brain left. There wasn't any activity at all. ↗

— Robin Gibb

#activity #any #brain #came #close