"However, in spite of the general perception that monetary policy should be conducted so as to avert deflation, a central bank cannot lower interest rates below the zero lower bound."

“I'm already a tiny person, so now I'm trying to go to the gym to add muscle. I need it!”

Source : "hairspray on broadway!". Interview with Sarah Wassner Flynn, www.seventeen.com. March 29, 2007.

“The art of walking is at once suggestive of the dignity of man. Progressive motion alone implies power, but in almost every other instance it seems a power gained at the expense of self-possession.”

“I think everything about it. Just the experience, but mainly performing live for people. I think if it wasn't for playing in front of audiences, I don't think that anyone would want to play music. That's where you get all your gratification. It's just something else to be up on stage, playing music that you wrote and having people enjoy it - and have it mean something to them also.”

“I arrived in Hollywood twenty pounds overweight and as strong as an ox. But if I put on a white tails and tux like Fred Astaire, I still looked like a truck driver.”

“You can't blame anyone else... You have to make your own choices and live every agonizing day with the consequences of those choices. He knew this. That's why he deserted us like we deserted those civilians. He saw the road ahead, a steep, treacherous mountain road. We'd all have to hike that road, each of us dragging the boulder of what we'd done behind us. He couldn't do it. He couldn't shoulder the weight." - Philip Adler”

“In this universe we are given two gifts: the ability to love and the ability to question. Which are, at the same time, the fires that warm us and the fires that scorch us.”

“Fate controls only the weak, Your Highness. The strong mould the providence the want”

“Noblest of all dogs is the hot-dog; it feeds the hand that bites it.”

Source : Dr. Laurence J. Peter (2013). “Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times”, p.53, Harper Collins