Double Declining Balance

Famous quotes containing the words double, declining and/or balance:

    “Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.”
    —Ben Hecht (1893–1964)

    “On a snug evening I shall watch her fingers,
    Cleverly ringed, declining to clever pink,
    Beg glory from the willing keys. Old hungers
    Will break their coffins, rise to eat and thank.”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    “They relieve and recommend each other, and the sanity of society is a balance of a thousand insanities. She punishes abstractionists, and will only forgive an induction which is rare and casual.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)