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Quotes About Bubbles

Bubbles are just a little liquid soap and a breath of air.
~ Tom Noddy
The dot-com and housing bubbles can both be explained by artificial credit expansion, say such economists.
~ Thomas E. Woods Jr.
When tulip mania dies down, all that remains are pretty flowers. When bubbles burst, nothing is left but soapy residue. But the Internet revolution, for all its speculative excesses, really is changing the world.
~ Adam Cohen
Market timing doesn't work. If all the bubbles and all this mispricing really exist, how come so few people see it before it turns out that way?
~ Eugene Fama
You go to the marketplace and there are seventeen consciousnesses moving in and out. Sometimes you want the same shirt that I want, and our thought bubbles collide a bit and that makes plot.
~ George Saunders
I am heartbroken that this movie would cause anyone pain. It should be a source of joy. The story is a metaphor about how we try to stay in our own little bubbles, we don't let life in, we don't take the journey.
~ Swoosie Kurtz
Capitalism cannot avoid fads and bubbles. Equity bubbles (as in 2000) have proved to be mild; debt bubbles are vicious.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Passion sits on the skull Of Humanity, And this infidel enthroned Laughs shamelessly, And gaily blows round bubbles That will fly, As if to join with worlds Deep in the sky. Rising on high, the frail Luminous globe, Shatters and bursts its slim soul Like a dream of gold. I hear at each bubble, the skull Moan and contend: 'This vicious, ridiculous game, When will it end? What you are blowing away Again and again, You murderous fiend, is my body My blood and my brain!
~ Charles Baudelaire
bubbles rose over the Champagne Orchestra and Lawrence Welk came onstage salaaming in every direction, crying out declarations of humility in his unctuous, brain-scalding Swedish kazoo of a voice.
~ Tobias Wolff
shampoos. Whenever
~ Kes Gray
Two bubbles found they had rainbows on their curves. They flickered out saying: "It was worth being a bubble, just to have held that rainbow thirty seconds.
~ Carl Sandburg
Bubbles are far more dangerous when they are fueled by debt, as in the case of the global housing price explosion of the early 2000s.
~ Carmen M. Reinhart
There are moments of sincerity. Those moments float away like bubbles but he takes the trouble to dip the wand in the soap and blow them through.
~ Carole Radziwill
Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception.
~ George Soros
Though life is made up of mere bubbles, 'Tis better than many aver, For while we've a whole lot of troubles, The most of them never occur.
~ Nixon Waterman
I got to go! Bye!" "You're ammmmmmmmmmmaaaaaaaazing—" Click. This time when she put her cell phone back down, she felt as light and frothy as the bubbles in a champagne flute. And a little drunk, too.
~ J.R. Ward
I've never blown an ugly bubble. Never. They're all beautiful. They're like jewels, transient jewels.
~ Tom Noddy
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
My favourite memory was the first time my mum bought me a bubble blower. I must have been the happiest girl in the world that day. I was all over those bubbles like a moth to a flame.
~ Debra Stephenson
The constable lit the bong and lost himself in the scuba bubbles of sweet comforting smoke.
~ Christopher Moore
He holds his glass up and turns to me as a single flake catches on the rim before melting down the one side into an amber world where bubbles burst and are born, burst and are born.
~ Gloria Naylor
An enemy, perhaps. Ah, so simple. Liane will kill you ten men. Two steps forward, thrust — thus!" He lunged. "And souls go thrilling up like bubbles in a beaker of mead.
~ Jack Vance
I needed to entertain myself at home nights... I got a jar of bubbles.
~ Tom Noddy
Fragments of these speeches, in which the words 'translucence' and 'opacity' rose and burst like bubbles, now sounded in Cincinnatus's ears, and the rush of blood became applause
~ Vladimir Nabokov