Do you know, they say that all the gold in the world drifts very gradually back to India.
--"Carlyle" in "The Offshore Pirate" (first published 1920), The Collected Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald
Even if the stores closed at midnight, there would still always be people coming in to buy. So there's a moment when you just have to say stop. The customers just have to be organized.
--Union delegate Marcelle Rohr, who works at the Paris department store Printemps, quoted in an article on the possible extension of department store hours to 8 p.m., in Le Parisien, 31 March 2008
Même si on fermait à minuit, il y aurait toujours des gens pour venir faire des achats. Alors il arrive un moment où il faut s'arrêter. Les clients n'ont qu'à s'organiser.
I don't give a hoot about reading reviews. What I want to read are royalty checks.
--Detective novel writer Mickey Spillane (1918-2006), quoted in People magazine's Yearbook 2007
Harvard is the Bethlehem of money.
Harvard, c'est le Bethléem de l'argent.
--Corinne Maier in Bonjour Paresse [Hello Laziness] (2004)
