Bubbles Quotes - Page 14

• If Los Angeles is a woman reclining billboard model with collagen-puffed lips and silicone-inflated breasts, a woman in a magenta convertible with heart-shaped sunglasses and cotton candy hair; if Los Angeles is this woman, then the San Fernando Valley is her teenybopper sister. The teenybopper sister snaps bug stretchy pink bubbles over her tongue and checks her lipgloss in the rearview mirror, . . . Teeny plays the radio too loud and bites her nails, wondering if the glitter polish will poison her.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Heart, Mirrors, Hair

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• Not wanting anyone to pop my bubble by speaking to me, I immediately began reading Lesbian Nuns, and that did the trick. No one attempted small talk.

  John Waters

  Reading, Pops, Tricks

  John Waters (2007). “Crackpot: The Obsessions of”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• maggie and milly and molly and may went down to the beach (to play one day) and maggie discovered a shell that sang so sweetly she couldn't remember her troubles, and milly befriended a stranded star whose rays five languid fingers were and molly was chased by a horrible thing which raced sideways while blowing bubbles and may come home with a smooth rounded stone as small as a world and as big as alone. for whatever we loose (like a you or a me) it is always ourselves we find in the sea.

  e. e. cummings

  Beach, Stars, Home

  E. E. Cummings (1983). “Hist Whist: And Other Poems for Children”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I think you would like Warren. He drinks Courvoisier in a Coke can, and has a laugh like you'd find in a cartoon bubble.

  Amy Hempel

  Thinking, Laughing, Cartoon

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• If you're keeping yourself in the bubble and only looking at your own data or only watching the TV that fits your agenda then it gets boring.

  Nate Silver

  Data, Agendas, Tvs

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• The beach has a language of its own, with its undulating ribbons of silt, the imponderable hieroglyphs of bird tracks. The receding waves catch on innumerable holes in the sand. Bubbles form and fade. A new language, with a new alphabet.

  Franny Billingsley

  Beach, Track, Bird

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• The answer is that we are not helpless in the face of our first impressions. They may bubble up from the unconscious - from behind a locked door inside of our brain - but just because something is outside of awareness doesn't mean it's outside of control.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Mean, Doors, Brain

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• They always gives me bath salts," complained Nobby. "And bath soap and bubble bath and herbal bath lumps and tons of bath stuff and I can't think why, 'cos it's not as if I hardly ever has a bath. You'd think they'd take the hint, wouldn't you?

  Terry Pratchett

  Thinking, Giving, Hints

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• Iggy: "I'll grab a zebra; Gaz, you fill all the bubbles with your trademark scent. so people are choking and gagging; and let's throw beef jerky in their eyes! Now, that's a plan!

  James Patterson

  Zebras, Eye, Beef Jerky

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• In A Glass of Cider It seemed I was a mite of sediment That waited for the bottom to ferment So I could catch a bubble in ascent. I rode up on one till the bubble burst, And when that left me to sink back reversed I was no worse off than I was at first. I'd catch another bubble if I waited. The thing was to get now and then elated.

  Robert Frost

  Glasses, Cider, Ascent

  Robert Frost (1995). “Collected Poems, Prose & Plays”, Severn House Paperbacks

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• The mighty steam-engine has its germ in the simple boiler in which the peasant prepares his food. The huge ship is but the expansion of the floating leaf freighted with its cargo of atmospheric dust; and the flying balloon is but the infant's soap-bubble lightly laden and overgrown. But the Telescope, even in its most elementary form, embodies a novel and gigantic idea, without an analogue in nature, and without a prototype in experience

  John Timbs

  Nature, Science, Simple

  John Timbs (2012). “Stories of Inventors and Discoverers in Science and the Useful Arts”, p.212, BoD – Books on Demand

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• I don't agree with the idea that you have to live in a bubble and sacrifice all your time to something if you want to succeed. I need to be interested in things outside my sport, and I need to meet new people. For me, judo is an expression of the harmony I achieve in my life.

  Ryoko Tani

  Sports, Sacrifice, Expression

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• All of our miseries are nothing but attachment. Our whole ignorance and darkness is a strange combination of a thousand and one attachments. And we are attached to things which will be taken away by the time of death, or even perhaps before. You may be very much attached to money but you can go bankrupt tomorrow. You may be very much attached to your power and position, your presidency, your prime ministership, but they are like soap bubbles. Today they are here, tomorrow not even a trace will be left.

  Rajneesh

  Taken, Ignorance, Attachment

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• I came here to chew bubble gum and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubble gum.

  Roddy Piper

  Funny, Badass, Wrestling

  Rowdy Roddy Piper, Robert Picarello (2002). “In The Pit With Piper”, p.78, Penguin

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• I'm interested to go other places, I've been the boy in the bubble since we've been shooting, I need to go travel a little bit, see where the action is, other than going to see family, of course.

  George Eads

  Travel, Boys, Shooting

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• Catastrophes come when some dominant institution, swollen like a soap-bubble and still standing without foundations, suddenly crumbles at the touch of what may seem a word or idea, but is really some stronger material source.

  George Santayana

  Ideas, Stronger, Progress

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• Conceive a jelly-fish such as sails in our summer seas, bell-shaped and of enormous size - far larger, I should judge, than the dome of St. Paul's. It was of a light pink colour veined with a delicate green, but the whole huge fabric so tenuous that it was but a fairy outline against the dark blue sky. It pulsated with a delicate and regular rhythm. From it there depended two long drooping, green tentacles, which swayed slowly backwards and forwards. This gorgeous vision passed gently with noiseless dignity over my head, as light and fragile as a soap-bubble, and drifted upon its stately way.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Summer, Ocean, Dark

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2000). “Tales of Unease”, p.95, Wordsworth Editions

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• If the bubbles contain a misconception, as they always do, then it can't be maintained forever.

  George Soros

  Forever, Ifs, Misconception

  Source: globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com

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• Bubbles are best identified by credit excesses, not valuation excesses. And there's no bigger credit excess than in China.

  James Chanos

  Excess, Credit, Bigger

  "The Long And Short Of Treasury Bond Yields". The Daily Reckoning, www.businessinsider.com. Novemebr 29, 2010.

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• I used to let the olde english 8- suds bubble in the last car of the Franklin Avenue shuttle

  KRS-One

  Rap, Car, Lasts

  Song: My Life, Album: Life, 2006

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• You have to say that we are again in a massive financial bubble in bonds, in equities, in [other] asset prices that have gone up dramatically.

  Marc Faber

  Gone, Financial, Assets

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• Consider the true picture. Think of myriads of tiny bubbles, very sparsely scattered, rising through a vast black sea. We rule some of the bubbles. Of the waters we know nothing.

  Larry Niven

  Thinking, Sea, Water

  Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle (1991). “The Mote in God's Eye”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• Consensual reality is both fragile and elastic, and it heals like the skin of a bubble.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Reality, Skins, Heal

  Jonathan Lethem (2011). “Motherless Brooklyn: A Novel”, p.58, Vintage

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• Too much of what led up to the crisis in the old bubble days—the conspicuous consumption, the latter-day Gatsbyism—was fueled by a need to fill a huge emotional and psychological void left by the absence of meaningful work. When people cease to find meaning in work, when work is boring, alienating, and dehumanizing, the only option becomes the urge to consume—to buy happiness off the shelf, a phenomenon we now know cannot suffice in the long term.

  Richard Florida

  Meaningful, Emotional, Long

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• When interest rates are low we have conditions for asset bubbles to develop, and they are developing at the moment. The ultimate asset bubble is gold.

  George Soros

  Gold, Investing, Moments

  "Soros and Paulson move in opposite directions as gold declines" by Tom Bawden, www.theguardian.com. March 6, 2011.

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