Bubble Quotes

• I've always believed that a speculative bubble need not lead to a recession, as long as interest rates are cut quickly enough to stimulate alternative investments. But I had to face the fact that speculative bubbles usually are followed by recessions. My excuse has been that this was because the policy makers moved too slowly - that central banks were typically too slow to cut interest rates in the face of a burst bubble, giving the downturn time to build up a lot of momentum.

  

  Paul Krugman
  • Recession
  • Interest rates
  • Alternative investments

• Dodd-Frank is the most restrictive financial regulation since the Great Depression—but it won’t stop another bubble.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Regulation
  • Bubble
  • Great Depression

• I usually live in my own ignorant, pop-culture bubble, so I don't really know what people are doing.

  

  Josh Thomas
  • Live
  • Ignorant
  • Bubble

• Conversations in French bubble around me like a long-forgotten perfume I am desperate to inhale. Familiar words trickle back, first in a stream then a river, though I've scarcely heard them in half a century.

  

  Pam Jenoff
  • French
  • Conversations
  • Bubble

• When you're recording a TV show, you really feel like you're in a bubble.

  

  Judy Greer
  • Recording
  • Bubble
  • TV Show

• Personally, I'm happier than I've ever been. So for me and my tiny little bubble the world is awesome, but I think that the world is in a pretty horrific state, especially at the momet with Syria.

  

  Edith Bowman
  • World
  • Awesome
  • Syria

• I don't know - a lot of people think it's a really negative thing to do bubble gum pop, but I love it. I, like, want to own it.

  

  Kim Petras
  • Want
  • Bubble
  • Own It

• What, if as said, man is a bubble.

  

  Marcus Terentius Varro
  • Man
  • Said
  • Bubble

• Thus shall ye think of all this fleeting world: As star at dawn, a bubble in a stream A flash of lightning in a summer cloud A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Dream
  • Lightning
  • Bubble

• I had a stick of CareFree gum, but it didn't work. I felt pretty good while I was blowing that bubble, but as soon as the gum lost its flavor, I was back to pondering my mortality.

  

  Mitch Hedberg
  • Pretty
  • Mortality
  • Carefree

• In my mind, a bubble or over-hyped cycle is driven by something good happening, which is used as a baseline for the next good thing.

  

  Sunil Nagaraj
  • Happening
  • Bubble
  • Baseline

• Don't watch people's individual performances. Watch the energy that's being passed between them, and then you'll see if the scene is really working or if the actors are really doing their job. If they're playing with the energy that's between them, they're not just acting in their own little bubble.

  

  Barbara Crampton
  • Job
  • Energy
  • Actors

• My favorite time is late at night. I seem to wake up and want to work after 10pm, in my bubble of night.

  

  Ed Askew
  • Work
  • Favorite
  • Bubble

• The differential between the bubble we live in — which is ‘ordinary life’ — and the reality out there is almost as heavy as what is being depicted in a film like ‘the Matrix’. It could make you puke to make that step towards finding out what’s really going on.

  

  Matt Bellamy Muse
  • Reality
  • Film
  • Bubble

• You really don't do anything else in your life; it's a very little bubble that you grow up in. And you have to live in that bubble because of the intensity of the sport.

  

  Estella Warren
  • Sport
  • Intensity
  • Bubble

• All the risky things that were happening back in ’06 and ‘07 are back again to the same level, if not more. So we are in the beginning of a credit bubble, but just the beginning.

  

  Nouriel Roubini
  • Beginning
  • Credit
  • Bubble

• Don't you wish you could take a single childhood memory and blow it up into a bubble and live inside it forever?

  

  Sarah Addison Allen
  • Childhood
  • Memories
  • Blow

• It's different everywhere you go. I'm lucky I'm drawn into people who love and support me. I'm sheltered from that life. I see how all over the world there's so much oppression and pain. I'm living in a bubble.

  

  Nomi Ruiz
  • Life
  • Living
  • Bubble

• Having spent 10 years studying emerging markets, I know that you have patterns repeated over and over again. A bubble is like a fire which needs oxygen to continue... when you see there is no oxygen, things change.

  

  Nouriel Roubini
  • Markets
  • Bubble
  • Oxygen

• We escaped the last big bursting of a bubble - the dotcom bubble - with a relatively light U.S. recession. On that occasion, the world economy found its way back on track fairly quickly.

  

  Evan Davis
  • Economy
  • Occasion
  • Escaped

• It doesn't matter if you call it a boom or a bubble. The startup business moves in cycles, and what goes up will eventually come down.

  

  Eric Ries
  • Business
  • Moves
  • Bubble

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