morning alarm....

Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.

- Ursula K. Le guin

hedge funds & private equity funds......

Hedge funds and private-equity firms today are like the dot-coms in 2000: Ask for money and you'll get it. They bid up the prices of everything. The amount of money flowing is almost out of control, and it's making everything overvalued. A client of mine said it's like there are 11,000 planes in the sky and only 100 good pilots -- an accident is bound to happen.

- Ray Dalio of Bridgewater Associates, quoted in Barron's, May 26th 2007 edition

never married....

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

- Lord Byron

can't buy love...

Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.

- Christopher Marlowe

imitation...

Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.

- Ani DiFranco

apple pie...

In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.

- Carl Sagan

trouble....

I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man I've met.

- Dwight L. Moody

politics....

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies.

- Groucho Marx

you / me.....from Rush Hour 3

Dojo Master: May I Help You?
Detective James Carter: I'll be asking the questions old man. Who are you?
Dojo Master: Yu.
Detective James Carter: No not me you!
Dojo Master: Yes I'm Yu!
Detective James Carter: Are you deaf?
Dojo Master: No Yu is blind!
Detective James Carter: I'm not blind, you blind
Dojo Master: That is what I just said.
Detective James Carter: You just said what?
Dojo Master: I did not say what, I said Yu.
Detective James Carter: That's what I'm asking you!
Dojo Master: And Yu is answering.
Detective James Carter: Shutup!
Detective James Carter: You!
Dojo Master: Yes?
Detective James Carter: Not You, Him! What's Your name?
Dojo Student: Mi.
Detective James Carter: Yes You!
Dojo Student: I'm Mi.
Dojo Master: He's Mi and I'm Yu.
Detective James Carter: And I'm about to whoop your old ass man because I am sick of playing games!

all night...

Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.

- Casey Stengel

age...

I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.

- Stephen Fry

purpose of marriage...

A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.

- William Somerset Maugham

prejudices...

I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally.

- W C Fields

rapper / golfer...

You know it's gone to hell, when the best rapper out there is a white guy and the best golfer is a black guy.

- Geoff Brabham

look good...

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

- Bill Gates

madness...

Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, political parties, nations and eras it's the rule.

- Nietzsche

feeling old...

I feel old when I see mousse in my opponent's hair.

- Andre Agassi

specific...

I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.

- Lily Tomlin

sex / love...

Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.

- Woody Allen

politics...

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.”

- Ronald Reagan

neck tie...

If men can run the world, why can’t they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?

- Linda Ellerbee

fear of commitment.....

When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.

- Warren Farrell

men's magazine...

There’s very little advice in men’s magazines, because men don’t think there’s a lot they don’t know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, “I know what I’m doing, just show me somebody naked.”

- Jerry Seinfeld

woman / man...

A woman’s appetite is twice that of a man’s; her sexual desire, four times; her intelligence, eight times.

- Sanskrit proverb

microwave...

I love the lines the men use to get us into bed. “Please, I’ll only put it in for a minute.” What am I, a microwave?

- Beverly Mickins (American comedienne)

place...

Women need a reason to have sex — men just need a place.

- Billy Crystal

lucky...

When a man goes on a date he wonders if he is going to get lucky. A woman already knows.

- Frederick Ryder

screwed...

Men get laid, but women get screwed.

- Quentin Crisp

invest...

Never invest in a business you cannot understand.

- Warren Buffet

lessons....

A pin lies in wait for every bubble and when the two eventually meet, a new wave of investors learns some very old lessons.

- Warrne Buffet

fool...

You should invest in a business that even a fool can run, because someday a fool will.

- Warren Buffet

solitude...

I Live in the solitude which is painful in youth ,But delicious in the years of maturity.

- Albert Einstein

renown....

Kitnee aasaanee say mashoor kiya hai khud ko,
Mainey apney say badey shakhs ko gaalee dee.

(How easy it was for me to attain renown / I bad-mouthed someone bigger than myself.)

- Zafar Gorakhpuri

in chains...

It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.

- Franz Kafka

music...

This land is your land and this land is my land, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.

- Bob Dylan