New York is a city of conversations overheard, of people at the next restaurant table (micrometers away) checking your watch, of people reading the stories in your newspaper on the subway train.

Quote by William E Geist

Topics: America And Americans Quotes, Conversation Quotes

Some think that by preparing to deal with crises you make them more likely. I...

Some think that by preparing to deal with crises you make them more likely. I...

Financial crises require governments.

Financial crises require governments.

And I think it's a prudent, responsible way, given the scale of the emergency, the...

And I think it's a prudent, responsible way, given the scale of the emergency, the...

Although this crisis in some ways started in the United States, it is a global...

Although this crisis in some ways started in the United States, it is a global...

Grown men have been seen fleeing after reading the menu posted outside.

Grown men have been seen fleeing after reading the menu posted outside.

Scrooge pushed past Mary number 1 and Joseph number 2 in the wings without so...

Scrooge pushed past Mary number 1 and Joseph number 2 in the wings without so...

Looking past the immediate crisis, a more resilient system must be built on stronger and...

Looking past the immediate crisis, a more resilient system must be built on stronger and...

Monetary policy itself cannot sensibly be directed at reducing imbalances.

Monetary policy itself cannot sensibly be directed at reducing imbalances.

It is very important for people to understand that the United States of America and...

It is very important for people to understand that the United States of America and...

As financial markets continue to broaden and deepen, the behavior of asset prices will play...

As financial markets continue to broaden and deepen, the behavior of asset prices will play...

I personally believe that there's going to be a good case for the government preserving...

I personally believe that there's going to be a good case for the government preserving...

But what we're determined to do, and what the reforms will do is to make...

But what we're determined to do, and what the reforms will do is to make...

Kristin Brown looks as though she could have been mailed first-class to New York for...

Kristin Brown looks as though she could have been mailed first-class to New York for...

In the financial system we have today, with less risk concentrated in banks, the probability...

In the financial system we have today, with less risk concentrated in banks, the probability...

Drawn by warm nostalgic feelings for the place and by two sweet little words: Open...

Drawn by warm nostalgic feelings for the place and by two sweet little words: Open...

Pressed caviar has the consistency of chilled tar.

Pressed caviar has the consistency of chilled tar.

I think we're not going to preserve Fannie and Freddie in anything like their current...

I think we're not going to preserve Fannie and Freddie in anything like their current...

Never before in modern times has so much of the world been simultaneously hit by...

Never before in modern times has so much of the world been simultaneously hit by...