Quotes About Graham

the shed door opened. Immediately the puppies started screaming and

Graham's legacy is not as a maverick or a trailblazer. It is the legacy of a man who used Jesus as a tool to placate the masses so that the status quo of conservative white America could remain firmly in place.

I'm born originally in Toronto, and I have what I call my 'Fame' story. I took a Greyhound bus and went to Alvin Ailey and received Dunham, Horton, Graham technique there, but I could never take my eyes off of Balanchine doing 'Nutcracker'; to me he's the best who ever did it.

Graham smiled and filled it all the way, then said, "What the hell" and did the same for his own. He took a sip and made an mmmmm sound. "That's a Peruvian varietal, from Ritual Coffee Roasters in San Francisco. I can't get enough of their coffee. I have twenty pounds flown in every month, and it's barely enough for my habit. Say, you're from California, aren't you?

love / is turning out the lights when others do, a curfew we / would take / for sails.

Sylvester Graham, he of the eponymous health-food cracker, claimed that a man who could make it to the age of thirty without giving in to the temptations of his sexual urges would be a veritable god.

Those who have a true love of freedom will do everything in their power to keep the freedom that they have.

I love the gangster genre, but how many gangster movies are there? If I get a good gangster movie script, I'll do it.

The soundness of the best investments must rest not upon legal rights or remedies but upon ample financial capacity of the enterprise.

Today's investors have forgotten Graham's message. They put most of their effort into buying a stock, a little into selling it - but none into owning it. Certainly, Graham reminds us, there is just as much reason to exercise care and judgment in being as in becoming a stockholder.

They ignored Graham's warning that "the really dreadful losses" always occur after "the buyer forgot to ask 'How much?'" Most painfully of all, by losing their self-control just when they needed it the most, these people proved Graham's assertion that "the investor's chief problem—and even his worst enemy—is likely to be himself.

And I suspect that Graham and Dodd have been ignored by those who suffer from the misconception that trying to make serious money requires that one take serious risks.

More important, buying IPOs is a bad idea because it flagrantly violates one of Graham's most fundamental rules: No matter how many other people want to buy a stock, you should buy only if the stock is a cheap way to own a desirable business.

implied that "at normal levels of the market" the investor should be able to obtain an  initial  dividend  return  of  between  31?2%  and  41?2%  on  his  stock purchases, to which should be added a steady increase in underly- ing value (and in the "normal market price") of a representative

The most consistent thing about Graham Wessit was his attitude of open experiment. Can you even imagine , she asked herself, plain, quiet, intellectual little you spending a lifetime on the arm of such a havoc-producing man?

At the end of April I archived 'Curses' and Inform, and announced them on the newsgroups.

I only write in blue ink.

Hundreds of passages point to a time of judgment for every person who has ever lived—none will escape. If you took all the references to judgment out of the Bible, you would have little Bible left.

No traditional Graham and Dodd investor invested in AOL," said a banker at the table. "They shorted it. And got fucked. They're learning the new model.

I do have the roller skates from 'Boogie Nights.'

Mr. President, you've got to buy some democrats, Graham said. The good news is they come cheap.

Priebus urged Graham to build a relationship with Trump. One of the selling points, he told Graham: "You're a lot of fun. He needs fun people around him.

Bannon believed Graham was the best deal maker for Republicans, but he was the establishment. Graham didn't like Bannon's nationalist agenda, telling him, "Bannon, that America First is bullshit. This is all bullshit

You lost a close election," Graham