Bubbles Quotes - Page 12

• My take on the whole dot-com bubble was that a lot of people who wanted to make a lot of money got too excited and hyped up the commercial aspects of the Internet prematurely. I think the vision of the Internet as a democratizing medium - as everyone's printing press - is real. We got distracted from that by the mass hallucinations of the bubble.

  Craig Newmark

  Money, Business, Real

  "CRAIGSLIST / On the record: Craig Newmark". San Francisco Chronicle Interview, www.sfgate.com. August 15, 2004.

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• Beethoven can't really be great because his picture isn't on a bubble gum card.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Funny, Baseball, Cards

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• Whose life is a bubble, and in length a span.

  William Browne

  Life, Life Is, Length

  William Browne (1845). “Britannia's Pastorals”, p.65

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• Long ago, Sir Isaac Newton gave us three laws of motion, which were the work of genius. But Sir Isaac's talents didn't extend to investing: He lost a bundle in the South Sea Bubble, explaining later, 'I can calculate the movement of the stars, but not the madness of men.' If he had not been traumatized by this loss, Sir Isaac might well have gone on to discover the Fourth Law of Motion: For investors as a whole, returns decrease as motion increases.

  Warren Buffett

  Stars, Business, Loss

  Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Chairman's Letter, www.berkshirehathaway.com. 2005.

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• Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.

  Alexander Pope

  God, Fall, Hero

  'An Essay on Man' Epistle 1 (1733) l. 87

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• A true bubble is when something is overvalued and intensely believed. Education may be the only thing people still believe in in the United States. To question education is really dangerous. It is the absolute taboo. It's like telling the world there's no Santa Claus.

  Peter Thiel

  Believe, Learning, People

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• Decades after a person has stopped collecting bubble gum cards, he can still discover himself collecting ballparks... their smells, their special seasons, their moods.

  Thomas Boswell

  Baseball, Smell, Special

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• Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Sad, Laughter, Ex Boyfriend

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• It is human life. We are blown upon the world; we float buoyantly upon the summer air a little while, complacently showing off our grace of form and our dainty iridescent colors; then we vanish with a little puff, leaving nothing behind but a memory - and sometimes not even that. I suppose that at those solemn times when we wake in the deeps of the night and reflect, there is not one of us who is not willing to confess that he is really only a soap-bubble, and as little worth the making.

  Mark Twain

  Summer, Time, Memories

  Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.152, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• By the time those electric blue eyes seek me out in the stands, my heart throbs fiercely in my temples, and my insides bubble with emotion when he spots me. He stares straight into my eyes, and his eyes are only mine, and his smile is only mine, and for this fraction of an instant, nothing else matters but us.

  Katy Evans

  Eye, Heart, Blue

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• Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is unabsorbed, and I could fancy that we might blow so vast a bubble that the sun might set and rise in it and we might take the blue of midday and the black of midnight and be cast off and escape from here and now.

  Virginia Woolf

  Wall, Blow, Blue

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.165, Virginia Woolf

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• When you're a teenager, your friends are your life. When you grow up, friendships seem to get pushed further and further back, until it seems like a luxury, a frivolity, like a bubble bath.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Growing Up, Teenager, Luxury

  Sarah Addison Allen (2012). “The Peach Keeper”, p.132, Hachette UK

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• Once I'm already in my room, I still have to open a door to get into my bed. It's like a giant box. It's like the boy in a bubble.

  Michael Phelps

  Boys, Doors, Bed

  "Michael Phelps: Ready for London games?". "60 Minutes" with Anderson Cooper, www.cbsnews.com. May 6, 2012.

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• My songs aren't bubble gum pop dance songs and I don't have background dancers on every single song.

  Avril Lavigne

  Motivational, Dance, Song

  "Talking to Avril Lavigne". Interview with Audrey Fine, www.seventeen.com. February 25, 2008.

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• Prices are going up. Unemployment is continue to go up. And we have not had the necessary correction for the financial bubble created by our Federal Reserve system.

  Ron Paul

  Unemployment, Financial, Federal Reserve

  "GOP Rivals Hit Obama on Foreign Policy Despite Bin Laden Killing, Hit Harder on Economy". www.foxnews.com. May 05, 2011.

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• I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.

  Christina Aguilera

  Art, Reading, Writing

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• Stand-up comedy and comedy in general is the ultimate form of free speech, because you get to poke holes in all the pretentious bubbles politicians and pundits and popes and pretenders try to float over our heads.

  Denis Leary

  Trying, Speech, Comedy

  Denis Leary (2008). “Why We Suck: A Feel Good Guide to Staying Fat, Loud, Lazy and Stupid”, p.58, Penguin

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• We all have secret lives. The life of excretion; the world of inappropriate sexual fantasies; our real hopes, our terror of death; our experience of shame; the world of pain; and our dreams. No one else knows these lives. Consciousness is solitary. Each person lives in that bubble universe that rests under the skull, alone.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Dream, Pain, Real

  Kim Stanley Robinson (2009). “Galileo's Dream”, p.359, Spectra

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• Stop. I don't do you favors, Alec. I do things for you because - well, why do you think I do them?" Something rose up in Alec's throat, cutting off his response. It was always like this when he was with Magnus. It was as if there were a bubble of pain or regret that lived inside his heart, and when he wanted to say something, anything, that seemed meaningful or true, it rose up and choked off his words. "I need to get back to the ship," he said, finally.

  Cassandra Clare

  Meaningful, Pain, Regret

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.834, Simon and Schuster

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• The spell was simple and I'd said half of it before she even figured out that it was a spell. Since you like bubbles so, In a bubble you must go. In that bubble you will stay Till your bubbles go away. Sound can't pass from inside out Even if you scream or shout. If you want to be set free, End your spell, that's the key

  E.D. Baker

  Simple, Keys, Going Away

  E.D. Baker (2008). “Once Upon a Curse”, p.189, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• These are the saddest of possible words, Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance. Trio of Bear Cubs fleeter than birds, Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance. Ruthlessly pricking our gonfalon bubble, Making a Giant hit into a double, Words that are weighty with nothing but trouble, Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance. This brief poem, immortalized the Chicago Cubs' double-play combination: Shortstop Joe Tinker, second baseman Johnny Evers, and first baseman Frank Chance.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Play, Bird, Bears

  Franklin Pierce Adams, “Baseball's Sad Lexicon”

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• He could tell at once that they carried different sorts of bubble bath mixed with the water though it wasn't bubble bath as Harry had ever experienced. One tap gushed pink and blue bubbles the size of footballs; another poured ice-white foam so thick that Harry thought it would have supported his weight if he'd cared to test it; a third sent heavily perfumed purple clouds hovering over the surface of the water. Harry amused himself for a while turning the taps on and off, particularly enjoying the effect of one whose jet bounced off the surface of the water in large arcs.

  J. K. Rowling

  Football, Clouds, Blue

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• Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Football, Truth, Lying

  1857-8 The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, ch.5.

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• When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Teacher, Children, Parent

  "'For me, England is a mythical place'". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2005.

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• The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Certainty, Consensus, Exploding

  Interview with Marcus Fairs, www.iconeye.com. June 2004.

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