Estates Quotes - Page 5

• New Yorkers are predatory about real estate. When they sense softening, they move in for the kill.

  Anderson Cooper

  Real, Moving, Predatory

  "Surviving the real estate game" by Anderson Cooper, www.cnn.com. August 2005.

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• I loathed poverty and I would have liked to put my hands on the party who said that poverty is an honorable estate. It is an indication of inefficiency and nothing more. There is nothing honorable or fine about it.

  Edgar Rice Burroughs

  Party, Hands, Poverty

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• In an age of so many people getting hurt in real estate, it shows that you can still do well in real estate.

  Donald Trump

  Hurt, Real, People

  "Donald Trump sells Florida mansion for record sum" by Dan Glaister, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2008.

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• If the gatherer gathers too-much, Nature takes out of the man what she puts into his chest; swells the estate, but kills the owner. Nature hates, monopolies and exceptions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hate, Men, Too Much

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.136, Courier Corporation

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• I lived in lower-income neighborhoods in the inner city. Across the street were dark parts of the world. I've experienced the gamut, from third world to inner city to my parents working their way out of being secretaries and janitors to professors and real-estate people. They've shown me a path of perseverance and hard work in a peaceable way.

  Kenna

  Perseverance, Real, Hard Work

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I was selling real estate at the time, in Pacific Palisades, California, so imagine that: getting a note and a bottle of champagne from Jack Nicholson when I'd barely made a dime as an actor. It really kept me going.

  Kurt Fuller

  Real, California, Actors

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Old Care has a mortgage on every estate, And that's what you pay for the wealth that you get.

  John Godfrey Saxe

  Care, Pay, Mortgage

  John Godfrey Saxe (1872). “The Poems: Complete in One Volume”, p.11

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• The family story tells, and it was told true,
  of my great-grandfather who begat eight
  genius children and bought twelve almost new
  grand pianos. He left a considerable estate
  when he died.

  Anne Sexton

  Children, Piano, Eight

  Anne Sexton (1964). “Selected poems”

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• And if you call one a real estate agent and he won't sell you anything. He is a REALATOR. It's the same as what the old fashioned real estate agent used to be only the commission is different.

  Will Rogers

  Real, Different, Agents

  Will Rogers, James Smallwood, Steven K. Gragert (1980). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Harding”

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• When markets go down, opportunities go up for smart real estate investors. I would much rather play the downturn than the upturn.

  Harry S. Dent

  Real, Smart, Opportunity

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• The rich man has his motorcar, His country and his town estate, He smokes a fifty-cent cigar And jeers at Fate. He frivols through the livelong day, He knows not Poverty, her pinch. His lot seems light, his heart seems gay; He has a cinch. Yet though my lamp burns low and dim, Though I must slave for livelihood- Think you that I would change with him? You bet I would!

  Franklin P. Adams

  Change, Country, Heart

  FRANKLIN P ADAMS (1911). “TOBOGGANING ON PARNASSUS”

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• Harold Ramis really got my career going and was a friend for a long time. I was doing a play in L.A., and he came to see it a few times and recommended me to Ivan Reitman for Ghostbusters 2. Six months later, I quit real estate and was acting for good, and it was really because Harold took an interest in me and made a phone call and did stuff that people don't usually do, even if they like somebody.

  Kurt Fuller

  Real, Phones, Play

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There used to be this guy called Vinny who worked on the floor of the stock exchange, said one big investor who had observed the market for a long time. After the markets closed Vinny would get into his Cadillac and drive out to his big house in Long Island. Now there is the guy called Vladimir who gets into his jet and flies to his estate in Aspen for the weekend. I used to worry a little about Vinny. Now I worry a lot about Vladimir

  Michael Lewis

  Weekend, Islands, Long

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• We, the workers and inhabitants of St Petersburg, of various estates, our wives, our children, and our aged, helpless parents, come to THEE, O SIRE to seek justice and protection. We are impoverished; we are oppressed, overburdened with excessive toil, contemptuously treated . . . We are suffocating in despotism and lawlessness. O SIRE we have no strength left, and our endurance is at an end. We have reached that frightful moment when death is better than the prolongation of our unbearable sufferings. . .

  Orlando Figes

  Children, Justice, Wife

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• Tending 100-year-old vines, I've been fortunate to craft highly rated, small production, estate grown wines since 1998. A labor of love, our wines are sustainably farmed, carry the story of my family in every glass and are simply the most satisfying of all my personal endeavors.

  Michael Chiarello

  Wine, Glasses, Years

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• It's funny when people ask if I'm a lesbian. I played a real estate agent in 'Father of the Bride, Part II,' but no one has asked me if I sell real estate.

  Nora Dunn

  Father, Real, People

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• I grew up on a sugar plantation in Trinidad, on an expat estate, and that meant I had no idea about money until a lot later than most children.

  Andrea McLean

  Children, Ideas, Sugar

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• Go your way. Forget Prometheus, And all the woe that he is doom'd to bear; By his own choice this vile estate preferring To ignorant bliss and unfelt slavery.

  Hartley Coleridge

  Choices, Ignorant, Slavery

  Hartley Coleridge, Derwent Coleridge (1851). “Poems by Hartley Coleridge: With a Memoir of His Life by His Brother. ...”, p.298

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• The difference between de jure and de facto segregation is the difference between open, forthright bigotry and the shamefaced kind that works through unwritten agreements between real estate dealers, school officials, and local politicians.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Real, School, Agreement

  Shirley Chisholm (2010). “Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.172, Take Root Media

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• From a poor man, poor in Time, I was suddenly lifted up into a vast revenue; I could see no end of my possessions; I wanted some steward, or judicious bailiff, to manage my estates in Time for me.

  Charles Lamb

  Men, Poor, Ends

  Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia”, p.215

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• When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate

  Chinua Achebe

  Brother, Father, Fighting

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• Being a champion opens lots of doors—I'd like to get a real estate license, maybe sell insurance.

  Mike Tyson

  Real, Doors, Champion

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• I should say we know that there are many, many other Earths out there. We're almost certain that there will be upwards of a billion Earth-like planets in our galaxy alone, so there is no lack of real estate where life might happen, but what we don't know is how likely it is given the real estate, given a wonderful pristine planet like Earth how likely is it that life will pop up inhabited? We don't know the answer to that.

  Paul Davies

  Real, Answers, Earth

  "Big Think Interview With Paul Davies". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. April 15, 2010.

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• It is wonderful to think how men of very large estates not only spend their yearly income, but are often actually in want of money. It is clear, they have not value for what they spend.

  Samuel Johnson

  Money, Men, Thinking

  Samuel Johnson (1807). “Dr. Johnson's Table-talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners, with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Mr. Boswell's Life of Johnson”, p.163

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• Hitler's dictatorship was the first of an industrial estate in this age of modern technology, a dictatorship which employed to perfection the instruments of technology to dominate its own people. By means of such instruments of technology, eighty million persons could be made subject to the will of one individual. Telephone, teletype, radio, made it possible to transmit the commands of the highest levels directly to the lowest organs where they were executed uncritically

  Albert Speer

  Mean, Technology, People

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