Real Estate Boom

Famous quotes containing the words real, estate and/or boom:

    “I’m a Yankee Doodle Dandy,
    A Yankee Doodle do or die;
    A real live nephew of my Uncle Sam’s,
    Born on the fourth of July.”
    —George M. Cohan (1878–1942)

    “Our vices always lie in the direction of our virtues, and in their best estate are but plausible imitations of the latter.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension; in which the mind is troubled by some buried but ineradicable suspicion that things had better work here, because here, beneath that immense bleached sky, is where we run out of continent.”
    —Joan Didion (b. 1935)