#tree

Our tree is actually a tree of the short-term interest rate. The average direction in which the short-term interest rate moves depends on the level of the rate. When the rate is very high, that direction is downward; when the rate is very low, it is upward. ↗

— John Hull

#average #depends #direction #downward #high

The Earth reminded us of a Christmas tree ornament hanging in the blackness of space. As we got farther and farther away it diminished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful marble you can imagine. ↗

— James Irwin

#beautiful #blackness #christmas #christmas tree #diminished

And I remember going to the record studio and there was a park across the street and I'd see all the children playing and I would cry because it would make me sad that I would have to work instead. ↗

— Michael Jackson

#because #children #cry #going #i

I like everything. Boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny. Which is a problem when I'm walking down the street. ↗

— Angelina Jolie

#down #everything #girlish #heavy #i

It has an air about it of having strolled in from the street with a few tricks up its sleeve, and if everybody would relax, please, it would do its best to pass the time whimsically. ↗

— Walter Kerr

#air #best #everybody #few #having

I was a street dancer. ↗

— Eartha Kitt

#i #street

First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf. ↗

— Martin Luther

#branch #climb #each #fall #first

'The Tree of Life' is a collection of conversations that lost souls and true believers have with themselves while keeping their heads to the sky. But the movie is church via the planetarium. ↗

— Wesley Morris

#church #collection #conversations #heads #keeping

Schools must stop being holding pens to keep energetic young people off the job market and off the streets. We stretch puberty out a long, long time. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#energetic #holding #job #keep #long

I was so astonished that another had penetrated so deeply into the secrets of my soul, and that he knew what I did not know myself, that when I recovered from it he had already been long upon the street. ↗

— Max Muller

#another #astonished #been #deeply #did