Frederic Morton quote: "The guests are often in key with the d�cor: beautifully preserved, highly pedigreed and finely burnished specimens of the fin de si�cle."

A grand old odalisque should never deign to turn housewife.
FREDERIC MORTON

Its oak paneling is rectory English; the marble in its bathrooms sometimes outdoes the tombstones of...
FREDERIC MORTON

A glassy mountain range of exposed offices; on a clear day you can look through the windows and see ...
FREDERIC MORTON

Oh, how hard it must be to die anywhere but in one's birthplace.
FREDERIC CHOPIN

The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labor in the same vineyard as those he cri...
FREDERIC RAPHAEL

The party of God and the party of Literature have more in common than either will admit; their texts...
FREDERIC RAPHAEL

People resent articulacy, as if articulacy were a form of vice.
FREDERIC RAPHAEL

A three -- to four -- to five-hour experience with nothingness.
FREDERIC GLEZER

Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
FREDERIC CHOPIN

The great networks are there to prove that ideas can be canned like spaghetti. If everything ends up...
FREDERIC RAPHAEL

I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in in...
FREDERIC CHOPIN

Man is never always happy, and very often only a brief period of happiness is granted him in this wo...
FREDERIC CHOPIN

Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano!
FREDERIC CHOPIN

As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America an...
FREDERIC RAPHAEL

Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fac...
FREDERIC BASTIAT

Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, i...
FREDERIC CHOPIN

The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he cr...
FREDERIC RAPHAEL

How goes the enemy?
FREDERIC REYNOLDS

It is easier to show the disorder that must accompany reform than the order that should follow it.
FREDERIC BASTIAT

The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly...
FREDERIC BASTIAT

The sort of dependence that results from exchange, i.e., from commercial transactions, is a reciproc...
FREDERIC BASTIAT

The mind never fully accepts any convictions that it does not owe to its own efforts.
FREDERIC BASTIAT

When under the pretext of fraternity, the legal code imposes mutual sacrifices on the citizens, huma...
FREDERIC BASTIAT

We cannot but be astonished at the ease with which men resign themselves to ignorance about what is ...
FREDERIC BASTIAT

If you wish to prosper, let your customer prosper.When people have learned this lesson, everyone wil...
FREDERIC BASTIAT

Now since man is naturally inclined to avoid pain- and since labor is pain in itself- it follows tha...
FREDERIC BASTIAT

The plans differ; the planners are all alike...
FREDERIC BASTIAT

In war, the stronger overcomes the weaker. In business, the stronger imparts strength to the weaker...
FREDERIC BASTIAT

People are beginning to realize that the apparatus of government is costly. But what they do not kno...
FREDERIC BASTIAT

The state is the great fiction by which everybody tries to live at the expense of everybody else.
FREDERIC BASTIAT

Often the masses are plundered and do not know it.
FREDERIC BASTIAT

As long as I have health and strength, I will gladly work all my days.
FREDERIC CHOPIN

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybo...
FREDERIC BASTIAT

Vienna is a handsome, lively city, and pleases me exceedingly.
FREDERIC CHOPIN

An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains.
HENRI-FREDERIC

Your idea of fidelity is not having more than one man in bed at the same time
FREDERIC RAPHAEL

Great restaurants are, of course, nothing but mouth-brothels. There is no point in going to them if ...
FREDERIC RAPHAEL

Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the rig...
FREDERIC BASTIAT

Truth may be stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer
FREDERIC RAPHAEL

You want to set rules, but with a lot of flexibility.
FREDERIC MISHKIN

They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition fo...
FREDERIC BASTIAT

Taxes must, in the end, fall upon the consumer
FREDERIC BASTIAT

Oh, how miserable it is to have no one to share your sorrows and joys, and, when your heart is heavy...
FREDERIC CHOPIN

When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.
FREDERIC BASTIAT

The shortest horror story:

The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock o...
FREDERIC BROWN

Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparat...
FREDERIC BASTIAT

The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly...
FREDERIC BASTIAT

It is, indeed, a remarkable circumstance that when Western civilization discovers Relativity it appl...
FREDERIC SPIEGELBERG

I shall create a new world for myself.
FREDERIC CHOPIN

Dying of tuberculosis: The earth is suffocating.... Swear to make them cut me open, so that I won't ...
FREDERIC CHOPIN

We are here in a wood of little beeches:
And the leaves are like black lace
Against a sk...
FREDERIC MANNING

The factors that fed the upside momentum over the last few months are unchanged and should continue ...
FREDERIC PANIZZUTTI

I hope common sense will prevail.
FREDERIC THIRIEZ

Anthony Miranda: Independent Melodic Velocities.
FREDERIC CHOPIN

Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the ...
FREDERIC BASTIAT

The state tends to expand in proportion to its means of existence and to live beyond its means, and ...
FREDERIC BASTIAT

Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.
FREDERIC BASTIAT

The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone ...
FREDERIC BASTIAT

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybo...
FREDERIC BASTIAT

I feel myself alien from everyone; that is my kind of Jewishness.
FREDERIC RAPHAEL

And what is liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the...
FREDERIC BASTIAT

Ben has been very clear that controlling inflation is the primary long-term goal of the Fed. And he ...
FREDERIC MISHKIN

I hope we can play as well in the final as we did against Rennes.
FREDERIC ANTONETTI

We are on a good run at the moment and we are going to enjoy it, but we still need to keep our feet ...
FREDERIC ANTONETTI

This is not somebody who is full of himself or has to show he's the smartest guy in the room.
FREDERIC MISHKIN

It's irrelevant what somebody's politics are. It just matters whether they would be a good central b...
FREDERIC MISHKIN

Of course it always affects one when one is whistled. One gives ones best each time, but it doesn't ...
FREDERIC MICHALAK

We were following Scotland rather than playing our own game and imposing our style on them and maste...
FREDERIC MICHALAK

It's true that you feel so much better once you get out on the field. I need to recover 100 per cent...
FREDERIC MICHALAK

I am aware that I am playing at difficult moments, when you have to concentrate the most. I take thi...
FREDERIC MICHALAK

It is already like a final. We are still on course for a Grand Slam and this is a great feeling.
FREDERIC MICHALAK

The mood is very good and very relaxed. However, having seen them play so well it has given us a lit...
FREDERIC MICHALAK

Fred's there on the bench and ready to play. But in fairness to Gerald, who had a good game when he ...
FREDERIC MICHALAK

It's very difficult to get back after such a tough game,
FREDERIC MICHALAK

The psychology of the world market is such that Iran does not even need to be credible about carryin...
FREDERIC LASSERRE

News coming in over the weekend that some production facilities might take longer to recover than or...
FREDERIC LASSERRE

We believe that the peak is near, both in terms of level and timing. This should be between now and ...
FREDERIC LASSERRE

More than 50 percent on average of all these indexes is in oil and refined products. It's having a m...
FREDERIC LASSERRE

Clearly that's a possibility. Iran has been so aggressive ... and has repeated several times very ag...
FREDERIC LASSERRE

If this trading activity is client-driven, oil-related physical assets are certainly not critical. B...
FREDERIC LASSERRE

The price floor for the market will be higher than it was before Katrina.
FREDERIC LASSERRE

The market is still fearing that we might see some more serious hurricanes down the road,
FREDERIC LASSERRE

Few people thought that he would be that explicit. We're getting closer to the end of the Fed intere...
FREDERIC DICKSON

We've seen political crises before rise and then cool off. The hope is that we would also see some c...
FREDERIC DICKSON

We're coming to the end of the Fed interest-rate tightening cycle. That usually isn't a bad time to ...
FREDERIC DICKSON

The biggest reactor to the productivity numbers will be the Fed. Productivity has been the safety va...
FREDERIC DICKSON

My sense right now is that we're in a trading range market. I would be looking for a pullback. I don...
FREDERIC DICKSON

My sense right now is that we're in a trading range market. I would be looking for a pullback.
FREDERIC DICKSON

[But many of its offices - in Jakarta, Stockholm, Melbourne, St. Petersburg, Brussels, Bangkok, Sydn...
FREDERIC COUDERT

It's very hard to run an organization if you have too many satellite offices,
FREDERIC COUDERT

In the major international firms, what's different today is you have more of a corporate-type organi...
FREDERIC COUDERT

It was young, idealistic and wonderful. But idealists have a hard time in this world.
FREDERIC COUDERT

The common law system in which the law is continually reinterpreted by judges ends up protecting pro...
FREDERIC MISHKIN

One of the most important qualifications to run the Federal Reserve is the ability to build consensu...
FREDERIC MISHKIN

There are good reasons to expect gold to keep its momentum on the way higher. If you look at the fun...
FREDERIC PANIZZUTTI

The recent price consolidation...has built a very solid base for a move higher.
FREDERIC PANIZZUTTI

We see it testing the high around $572, but there is a willingness in the market to go to $580.
FREDERIC PANIZZUTTI

The market took on some new positions ahead of the Fed. After they raised, as expected, gold came of...
FREDERIC PANIZZUTTI

The momentum higher in gold continues. The consensus in the market is that gold will trade to betwee...
FREDERIC PANIZZUTTI

The bull trend experienced over the recent few years is resulting in a self-fed dynamic -- the trend...
FREDERIC PANIZZUTTI

It's not just big positions by a few people. It's also small positions by many people.
FREDERIC PANIZZUTTI

We expect gold to remain very volatile, trading erratically from time to time and to break over $600...
FREDERIC PANIZZUTTI

The great networks are there to prove that ideas can be canned like spaghetti. If everything ends u...
FREDERIC RAPHAEL

The Commission will not propose any specific location, only a framework for the institute.
FREDERIC VINCENT

Agents are getting their hands on serious amounts of money - more than ?30 million (US$36.6 million)...
FREDERIC THIRIEZ

Marseille's decision (to send the B team to Paris) is astounding and impossible to understand. Every...
FREDERIC THIRIEZ

We would like to come up with a detailed set-up we could test as soon as next season. The only impro...
FREDERIC THIRIEZ

This has been an incredible -- every minute -- emotional project. You have a great responsibility to...
FREDERIC SCHWARTZ

It's dealing with the neighborhood.
FREDERIC SCHWARTZ

The lesson from that is don't let political people decide to make the rebuilding their legacy, as [N...
FREDERIC SCHWARTZ

The pattern has given rise to the adage, 'Sell in May and go away' with respect to stocks.
FREDERIC RUFFY

There might be some disappointment related to the latest trade volume data, especially the Chicago B...
FREDERIC RUFFY

It is a sign that the world's largest retailer is taking steps to expand into the fast growing regio...
FREDERIC RUFFY

It appears that options traders are bracing for volatility in Heinz and the increase in call volume ...
FREDERIC RUFFY

The large skew indicates that the market is bracing for short-term volatility in Harley Davidson ahe...
FREDERIC RUFFY

The company delivered a profit report that surpassed even the most optimistic expectations.
FREDERIC RUFFY

Shares of Network Appliance are off to a good start in 2006, up nearly 25 percent since December 30.
FREDERIC RUFFY

The speculative activity in short-term calls might reflect the recent talk about an alliance with Mi...
FREDERIC RUFFY

Art is a she-devil of a mistress, and if at times in earlier days she would not even stoop to my way...
FREDERIC REMINGTON

I knew the wild riders and the vacant land were about to vanish forever... and the more I considered...
FREDERIC REMINGTON

Everyone wants to look their best, everyone has dreams of wanting to look like something else. But w...
SAMANTHA MORTON

I'll never get a part in a huge action blockbuster.
SAMANTHA MORTON

I am proud of what I've done.
SAMANTHA MORTON

I was physically abused and I retaliated.
SAMANTHA MORTON

I'm an actor. That's what I'm gifted at. It's what makes me breathe.
SAMANTHA MORTON

My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.
SAMANTHA MORTON

I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film...
SAMANTHA MORTON

To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.
SAMANTHA MORTON

Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance - but then they forget to direc...
SAMANTHA MORTON

The truth is I had lots of rehab and now I have a clean bill of health.
SAMANTHA MORTON

I hate the analyzing thing. People say, 'Why do you think your character did that? I don't k...
SAMANTHA MORTON

Most of my life, I've been on a film set. There isn't anything to learn, not learn, unlearn....
SAMANTHA MORTON

Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
SAMANTHA MORTON

For anyone who's been in care, successfully coming through the system is nothing to with money o...
SAMANTHA MORTON

I want to prove that you don't have to come from Oxford University or Rada - and you don't h...
SAMANTHA MORTON

I think anybody who has been abused as a kid - and I was abused as a kid, by various people - will s...
SAMANTHA MORTON

It's fantastic to strive towards a nice life where you eat nice organic food and your children g...
SAMANTHA MORTON

I have worked very hard on being aware of my childhood but moving forward and not letting it bring m...
SAMANTHA MORTON

We're all living blinkered lives, and we're not seeing what's going on and looking to ch...
SAMANTHA MORTON

You get very possessive about characters, you feel you can see it in your mind and you want to play ...
SAMANTHA MORTON

When you've been raised in care, rap music isn't just about guns and sexism. They're tal...
SAMANTHA MORTON

I will check the internet for at least an hour every morning scanning worldwide news to do with chil...
SAMANTHA MORTON

I was angry but not at God. I feel that you are closer to God when you are messed up. Definitely. Th...
SAMANTHA MORTON

What shocks me is that so many people leave care and become homeless, and when you're homeless y...
SAMANTHA MORTON

I like to stretch my acting muscles.
SAMANTHA MORTON

In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't re...
KATE MORTON

People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.
KATE MORTON

I simply love writing good stories, that's my passion.
KATE MORTON

I write what I'd like to read and just hope that, along the way, others might like to read them,...
KATE MORTON

I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read.
KATE MORTON

There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and...
KATE MORTON

I love the structural part of the writing process.
KATE MORTON

Some say I'm an overnight success. Well, that was a very long night that lasted about 10 years. ...
KATE MORTON

It's not a special taste. An American composer should have something to say to a cab driver.
MORTON GOULD

When I founded the first Hard Rock, no one was serving American food in London; McDonald's wasn&...
PETER MORTON

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their mar...
MORTON HUNT

One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk p...
J.B. MORTON

You've got all these books on self help, getting to know yourself, doing the right thing, eating...
SAMANTHA MORTON

This book was done with her full cooperation. There is nothing underhanded about it,
ANDREW MORTON

probably the scoop of the century.
ANDREW MORTON

Her legacy and testament are the words in her book. I am very proud she chose me to tell her story, ...
ANDREW MORTON

I think it [marrying into the Royal Family] is something Sophie?s mother is quite concerned about. S...
ANDREW MORTON

So the whole thrust of any kind of reportage of the Royal Family, certainly in the tabloids, it may ...
ANDREW MORTON

They defined what was private and what was public and they would move it whenever they wished.
ANDREW MORTON

I would argue that television and particularly the BBC were instrumental in puffing up the Royal Fam...
ANDREW MORTON

Stories about Diana's fashions, about possible rows between Charles and Diana, these were meat and d...
ANDREW MORTON

Members of the Royal Family tend to, and Prince Edward particularly, tend to shade in and out of bei...
ANDREW MORTON

He's a TV producer, a theatrical impresario, and he wants to be treated as Mr. Windsor but when the ...
ANDREW MORTON

South Africa is the only place in the Southern hemisphere where Halloween is really catching on. The...
LISA MORTON

It was such a pleasure to sink one's hands into the warm earth, to feel at one's fingertips the poss...
KATE MORTON

I think people believe that I give ant aura of someone who has both feet on the ground.
JOE MORTON

In Britain, the major public holiday used to be Guy Fawkes Day... that was celebrated on November 5t...
LISA MORTON

One, I had never worked with John Woo before and I wanted to see what that was like, and two, Ben Af...
JOE MORTON

Approbation from Sir Hubert Stanley is praise indeed.
THOMAS MORTON

While we have the utmost respect for coach Willingham, his staff, his players and the university, .....
BOB MORTON

There was miscommunications between us and the officials as far as what the rules were.
BOB MORTON

I look through the team and I can honestly say I can't see a weakness,
BOB MORTON

The chandelier started going and the floor started shaking. Someone yelled get under the table and s...
BOB MORTON

Very similar. Very similar. And that's something I'm actually quite excited about.
BOB MORTON

It wasn't going to be that easy. I saw the referee waving his hands over his head (to stop the clock...
BOB MORTON

If that rascal had tumbled down, it would have been all over,
BOB MORTON

I think we can knock them off their pedestal. I think we can do them but, more importantly, the team...
BOB MORTON

When I was a kid we really enjoyed their visits. They were so open and friendly and generous with th...
BOB MORTON

When you stick a straw in a soda and suck on it, everything goes down.
BOB MORTON

Guys just look at him, and don't know if they should laugh or not.
CHAD MORTON

I'm the guy that gets all the glory, but they're doing the work,
CHAD MORTON

Once he got his, I needed to get mine,
CHAD MORTON

We go over the film and see everything. We have a fine system for each other if players don't do wha...
CHAD MORTON

He's one of the best in the game right now. He hits it so hard and he's a good guy, too. That helps....
CHAD MORTON

He couldn't have done that at a better time,
CHAD MORTON

They're America's team right now.
CHAD MORTON

We can do some good stuff on special teams, but you don't want guys to get complacent and say 'we're...
CHAD MORTON

We talked at halftime about being the first team on opening day to score on a kickoff and punt retur...
CHAD MORTON

That's what we talked about [at halftime]. Let's see if we can make history by being the first team ...
CHAD MORTON

Being a good psychoanalyst, in short, has the same disadvantage as being a good parent: The children...
MORTON HUNT

We used similar methods to those used historically to assess railroads and interstate roads. If you'...
MORTON O'KELLY

I sound contemptuous, but I am not. I am interested--intrigued even--by the way time erases real liv...
KATE MORTON

Some say I'm an overnight success. Well, that was a very long night that lasted about 10 years.
LISA MORTON

It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments ...
KATE MORTON

The guests are often in key with the d�cor: beautifully preserved, highly pedigreed and finely burnished specimens of the fin de si�cle.

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