People go to restaurants for so many different reasons. To court a girl, to make some deal. Maybe to talk to some lawyer about how to get an alimony settlement better than they got last week. Gay Talese Read Quote
The first time I met Alex Rodriguez, he was in the fight of his life. He was the guy who was supposed to have everything – good looks, good health, good habits – all the talent in the world and most of the money. Richard Ben Cramer Read Quote
I have another aspect of my career where I’m a scholar of Yiddish and Hebrew literature, and I’ll say that when you study Yiddish literature, you know a whole lot about forgotten writers. Most of the books on my shelves were literally saved from the garbage. I am sort of very aware of what it means to be a forgotten artist in that sense. Dara Horn Read Quote
When I looked at my mother, I always saw a bit of Ireland. And I suppose when I look to Ireland, I see a bit of my mother – her faith, her wit, her endurance. Jean Kennedy Smith Read Quote
The middle class today would be poor by the standards of the 1950s. Today, with two people working, they would still live paycheck to paycheck. Peter Schiff Read Quote
Money is catching up to the technological trends transforming all aspects of society and business; entertainment, insurance, health-care, gaming, leisure, retail – all commercial and social verticals are going digital – including money itself. Max Keiser Read Quote
When it turns out that you were supposed to be disclosing all these foreign government donations to the Clinton Global Initiative while you were Secretary of State, and you didn’t, and now the Clinton Global Initiative is having to restate their 990s, that doesn’t sound very trustworthy to me. Carly Fiorina Read Quote
For me, music is a byproduct of this process – the human process – and the fact that I’ve managed to eke out a career with it is a happy accident more than any strategy. Devin Townsend Read Quote
