But I can hardly sit still. I keep fidgeting, crossing one leg and then the other. I feel like I could throw off sparks, or break a window--maybe rearrange all the furniture.
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Raymond Carver
A tired man lay down his headin a dusty room so dim, and for so long his wife did shakeand yell to waken him. Meanwhile his thoughts, his dreams, did stirof sandy, red bullfights, of powder-blasts in the airand carnival delights. Yet still his wife...
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Roman Payne
The word is my weapon. FIRE!
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Ljupka Cvetanova
..[F]ireworks had for her a direct and magical appeal. Their attraction was more complex than that of any other form of art. They had pattern and sequence, colour and sound, brilliance and mobility; they had suspense, surprise, and a faint hint of danger; above all,...
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Jan Struther
There should be fireworks at last, when a dream dies.
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Kirby Larson
More Quotes By James Buchan
Suicidal violence is not the exclusive property of the Muslim world. Suicide bombings were a tactic of nationalist struggles in 19th-century Europe and Russia, the far east during the second world war and the Vietnam war, and in modern Sri Lanka.
Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains - none has been so catastrophic to prosperity as the last century's attempt to generate electricity from nuclear fission.
Bulls don't read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637, the Banque Royale of 1719-20, the railway speculation of the 1840s, the great crash of 1929.
Financial crises are like fireworks: they illuminate the sky even as they go pop.
In rising financial markets, the world is forever new. The bull or optimist has no eyes for past or present, but only for the future, where streams of revenue play in his imagination.
