Bubbles Quotes - Page 8

• Life is a bubble in a lake, that glitters for an instant, bursts, and leaves not even a blur on the water; it is the leap of a minnow, which sends a tiny ripple trembling for a few inches.

  Austin O'Malley

  Life, Lakes, Water

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• Titles are tinsel, power a corrupter, glorya bubble, and excessive wealth a libel on its possessor.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Titles, Wealth, Libel

  1812 Declaration of Rights, article 27.

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• If you go into what I call a bubble boom, every bubble bursts.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Ifs

  "The Way We Live Now: 4-22-01: On Language; Shtick" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. April 22, 2001.

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• I think about dying but I don't want to die. Not even close. In fact my problem is the complete opposite. I want to live, I want to escape. I feel trapped and bored and claustrophobic. There's so much to see and so much to do but I somehow still find myself doing nothing at all. I'm still here in this metaphorical bubble of existence and I can't quite figure out what the hell I'm doing or how to get out of it.

  Matthew Healy

  Thinking, Opposites, Bored

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• When you see reference to a new paradigm you should always, under all circumstances, take cover. Because ever since the great tulipmania in 1637, speculation has always been covered by a new paradigm. There was never a paradigm so new and so wonderful as the one that covered John Law and the South Sea Bubble - until the day of disaster.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Sea, Law, Wonderful

  "Galbraith on Crashes, Japan and Walking Sticks" by Ben Laurance and William Keegan, The Observer, June 21, 1998.

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• If I had my way, I would build a lethal chamber as big as the Crystal Palace, with a military band playing softly, and a Cinematograph working brightly; then I'd go out in the back streets and main streets and bring them in, all the sick, the halt, and the maimed; I would lead them gently, and they would smile me a weary thanks; and the band would softly bubble out the 'Hallelujah Chorus'.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Military, Sick, Band

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.81, Cambridge University Press

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• Gay people do not fight for freedom to live in a lavender bubble, but in a more just society.

  Urvashi Vaid

  Fighting, Gay, People

  Urvashi Vaid (2015). “Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Gay and Lesbian Liberation”, p.93, Anchor

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• Next time, please pay a fair price for the services you depend on. Those have a better chance of surviving the bubbles.

  Dave Winer

  Pay, Next, Chance

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• You become sort of insulated in this bubble when you're working on something that it's hard to have an outsider's perspective on what works and what doesn't so it's always good to see what other people think.

  John Francis Daley

  Thinking, People, Perspective

  Source: collider.com

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• Go along, go along quickly, and set all you have on the table for us. We don't want doughnuts, honey buns, poppy cakes, and other dainties; bring us a whole sheep, serve a goat and forty-year old mead! And plenty of vodka, not vodka with all sorts of fancies, not with raisins and flavorings, but pure foaming vodka, that hisses and bubbles like mad.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Years, Cake, Sheep

  Nikolai Gogol (1985). “The Complete Tales of Nikolai Gogol”, p.24, University of Chicago Press

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• Walking around a slum in a third world country quickly puts into perspective what really matters in life. It grounds you in a way that you can't experience without getting out of your bubble at home.

  Katherine Schwarzenegger

  Motivational, Country, Home

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• Valentine's Day money-saving tips: Break up on February 13th, get back together on the 15th. In place of bubble bath, use lavender-scented dish-washing liquid. Forget rose petals. Sprinkle the bed with sliced beets!

  David Letterman

  Valentine, Rose, Together

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• When I began my physical studies [in Munich in 1874] and sought advice from my venerable teacher Philipp von Jolly...he portrayed to me physics as a highly developed, almost fully matured science...Possibly in one or another nook there would perhaps be a dust particle or a small bubble to be examined and classified, but the system as a whole stood there fairly secured, and theoretical physics approached visibly that degree of perfection which, for example, geometry has had already for centuries.

  Max Planck

  Teacher, Science, Dust

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• You have a real asset-price bubble in places like parts of California and the suburbs of Washington, D.C.

  Charlie Munger

  Real, California, Assets

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• We imagine that if we had time we would quiet our more shallow selves and listen to a deeper flow of inspiration. Again, this is a myth that lets us off the hook - if I wait for enough time to listen, I don't have to listen now, I don't have to take responsibility for being available to what is trying to bubble up today.

  Julia Cameron

  Inspiration, Responsibility, Self

  Julia Cameron (1999). “The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life”, p.21, Penguin

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• The word 'pure' has never revealed an intelligent meaning to me. I can only use the word to quench an optical thirst for purity in the transparencies that evoke it - in bubbles, in a volume of water, and in the imaginary latitudes entrenched, beyond reach, at the very center of a dense crystal.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Intelligent, Water, Use

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• In the United States of America, unfortunately we still live in a bubble of unreality.

  Al Gore

  Reality, America, United States

  "An interview with accidental movie star Al Gore". Interview with David Roberts, grist.org. May 10, 2006.

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• I think my worst problem is actually living in the moment and understanding everything that's going on. I feel like I'm in my own bubble.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Thinking, Understanding, Live In The Moment

  Interview with Erykah Badu, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 23, 2013.

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• I think there is something to being curious about your choices, but not wanting to kind of pierce the bubble of them, because it takes away from the act of discovering.

  Jodie Foster

  Thinking, Choices, Kind

  "Jennifer Lawrence". Interview with Jodie Foster, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 12, 2010.

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• Like the dew on the mountain, like the foam on the river, like the bubble on the fountain, thou art gone, and for ever!

  Walter Scott

  Death, Art, Rivers

  Sir Walter Scott (1833). “The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Biography, and His Last Additions and Illustrations”, p.458

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• Stop talking about the murders, and we won't know they're happening. And then we can all just live in a bubble that isn't reality.

  Kimberly Guilfoyle

  Reality, Talking, Murder

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I'm really interested in self-deception. Really interested in how people live in bubble universes. How people can fail to see the seemingly obvious.

  Errol Morris

  Self, People, Deception

  Source: collider.com

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• I never read anything in print about me. It started with not reading reviews and with the greatest respect to my publicist here, I never read interviews. I was there when I gave them. I never read reviews. I was there when I did the jobs - so I'm totally immune. I live in a bubble.

  Ben Kingsley

  Jobs, Reading, Interviews

  "Sir Ben Kingsley Talks the Boxtrolls, What Convinced Him to Voice an Animated Villain, His Opinion of the Shakespearean Snatcher, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. September 20, 2014.

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• Here's Henry, trying to burst the bubble still further, if indeed it needs more bursting

  George Hamilton

  Football, Trying, Needs

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• Double, treble, quadruple bubble, watch the stock market get into trouble.

  Garth Nix

  Watches, Trouble

  Garth Nix (2010). “The Keys to the Kingdom #2: Grim Tuesday”, p.58, Scholastic Inc.

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