We judged that a sudden, disorderly failure of Bear would have brought with it unpredictable but severe consequences for the functioning of the broader financial system and the broader economy, with lower equity prices, further downward pressure on home values, and less access to credit for companies and households.

Well, you can't be depressed and sad 24 hours a day.

Julia Sweeney

Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.

Orison Swett Marden

A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.

Helen Rowland

The crowning blessing of life is to be born with a bias to some pursuit.

S. G. Tallentyre

I understand why creative people like dark, but American audiences don't like dark. They like story. They do not respond to nervous breakdowns and unhappy episodes that lead nowhere. They like their characters to be a part of the action. They like strength, not weakness, a chance to work out any dilemma.

Leslie Moonves

As sophisticated as the technology gets, the less sophisticated you have to become as an actor.

Brendan Fraser

I want do some kind of action movie, car chases and explosions.

Devon Sawa

But these young scholars who invade our hills, Bold as the engineer who fells the wood, And travelling often in the cut he makes, Love not the flower they pluck, and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Michael Korda

It sounds extraordinary but it?s a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading.

Mary Archer

Fear and realisation of ignorance, strong medicines against stupid pride.

Garth Nix

I want a pit crew... I hate the procedure I currently have to go through when I have car problems.

Dave Barry