#vera

For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded. ↗

— James M. Barrie

#after #book #carried #days #faded

It's only in relatively recent years that Hollywood became the playground of multinational corporations which regard movies and TV shows as a minor irritant to their overall activity. ↗

— Peter Bart

#became #corporations #hollywood #irritant #minor

Most movie-goers are overdosing on star coverage; it's the ultimate example of too much information. ↗

— Peter Bart

#example #information #most #much #star

The average trade of an individual is in the thousands of shares, whereas the institutional trade can be in the millions of shares. Clearly, the bigger the order, the bigger the move in the stock. ↗

— Maria Bartiromo

#bigger #clearly #individual #institutional #millions

If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average. Even being right 3 or 4 times out of 10 should yield a person a fortune if he has the sense to cut his losses quickly on the ventures where he is wrong. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

#being #correct #cut #even #fortune

Under the Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star Program, homes are independently verified to be measurably more energy efficient than average houses. ↗

— Melissa Bean

#agency #average #efficient #energy #environmental protection

In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly have evolved to accommodate it. ↗

— Martha Beck

#added #average #brains #century #change

The Treatise tries to analyze not only modern Western families, but also those in other cultures and the changes in family structure during the past several centuries. ↗

— Gary Becker

#analyze #centuries #changes #cultures #during

I'm pretty much your average, energy-saving-light-bulbs-recycling citizen. ↗

— James Van Der Beek

#citizen #i #much #pretty #your

We're kind of in a voyeuristic world. We have TV shows that are all about watching people do weird things in houses. People are obsessed with that. There's live coverage of it. ↗

— Jamie Bell

#coverage #houses #kind #live #obsessed