The Stars Shine Down Quotes
"In the past year her life had spun wildly out of control."
"By the time I was twenty-one, I owned three buildings, and they were all successful."
"In her own way, she’s a genius. She can be petty and vengeful and incredibly generous."
"You’re wrong, mon. She maun have an education. She maun be gien a chance in life."
"I don’t choose the site. The site chooses me."
"I see a beautiful office building or a lovely apartment building filled with people living comfortably in a nice atmosphere. I dream."
"It was easier to make a hundred-million-dollar deal than it was to try to borrow fifty thousand dollars."
"I suppose that a psychiatrist would say that I haven’t created this empire just for myself. In a way, it’s a tribute to my father."
"What I do has nothing to do with the money or the bricks and steel that make a building. It’s the people who matter."
"Everything started in Glace Bay. That’s where it all began, almost forty years ago…"
"A Scotsman wi' start a fight in an empty house."
"Someday, Lara thought, a handsome Lochinvar will come and rescue me."
"Someday, Lara thought fiercely, I will have my own land, and no one—no one—will ever take it away from me."
"It was easier dealing with your father," one of the boarders grumbled. "He was always willing to wait a few days."
"For Gude’s sakes!" he cried. "Stop hoverin’ aboot. Hae you nae work to dae?"
"Other people's money. What makes real estate a great business is that the government lets you take deductions on interest and depreciation while your assets keep growing."
"You know, Glace Bay has a big housing shortage. It’s a great opportunity for someone. If I were twenty years younger…"
"I want to learn," she told Charles Cohn. "This is just the beginning for me. Before I’m through, I’m going to put up a hundred buildings."
"No problem," Ericksen smiled. "You just go home and relax. You’re in good hands."
"You don’t understand. The workmen won’t come."
"They’re mine," Lara said defiantly. "There’s nothing in the contract that says I can’t use my own men."
"Your new employees are going to need places to live in Glace Bay."
"I’m planning to put up a hotel in Chicago. I’ll need to borrow some money."
"Three million can go a long way if you know what to do with it."
"Forget it. Real estate development is a man’s game."
"I ran a boardinghouse full of miners and lumbermen. A hotel will be a cinch."
"I’m interested in building a hotel in Chicago."
"I’m going to let you in on a little secret. Chicago is not Glace Bay."
"The worst thing that can happen is that the bank will break even."
"Chicago finally has a hotel that lives up to the motto ‘Your home away from home!’"
"There’s no excuse for ugly buildings. Every building should be a tribute to this city."
"Are you going to have dinner with me?" Ryan asked. The word "dinner" was stretched out slowly.
"My God, you’re a lovely thing," he said. And his strong arms went around her.
"My God," Ryan said softly, "you’re a bloody miracle."
"We’re going to start a subsidiary. We’ll supply those services to ourselves and to other builders."
"That’s what makes it exciting," Lara said, "the gamble. And winning."
"It's the most exciting thing in the world to have an idea and watch it grow into concrete and steel."
"Always do it out in the open. Then no one will believe you're doing anything wrong."
"I'm going to put up more buildings in New York than anyone ever has before. It's going to be my city."
"We're going to change the skyline. We're going to invent the future."
"All this comes under harassment. You’ll save yourself a lot of trouble and unpleasant publicity by not forcing us to take you to court."
"I want you to bring in more homeless. I want that building packed with street people."
"You can’t get away with this, Lara. There’s an old adage: ‘Don’t fight City Hall, you can’t win.’"
"Remove them, but don’t put them out on the street. That isn’t right…"
"I want you to redraw it. Construct it around that building."
"The reason we were put on this earth was to leave it a better place than when we came into it."
"Everything is incurable until they find the cure."
"I’m making you my executive assistant. There will be a nice raise for you."
"You’re swallowing up everything in sight, but you haven’t digested anything yet."
"I’m here because I would like to do something for Reno," Lara said earnestly.
"I’m not exactly an escaped convict," Lara smiled.
"You’re not getting in over your head, are you, Lara?"
"I have a photographic memory. It used to be for baseball statistics."
"That’s where I was born. So, you’re a Hoosier, eh?"
"You could have come from Gary, Indiana. You’ve got a deal."
"It’s wonderful to be able to touch people and transport them into another world. The music gives each of them a dream."
"We just flew in this morning. This is Howard Keller, my associate."
"It’s not a joking matter, Lara. He’s a dangerous enemy."
"Forget about him, Howard. I just got a tip about a property in Los Angeles."
"It’s coming along beautifully," Lara said enthusiastically.
"Gentlemen, I have reconsidered the Scottsdale property and have decided to go ahead with it immediately. I think in time it is going to be my most valuable asset."
"Drive around Manhattan. I want to see what I’ve done."
"I’ve done everything I wanted to do. Then why am I restless? What is missing?"
"We try to make each recital perfect, but there’s no such thing as a completely successful one because we’re dealing with music that is always better than we are."
"I’m so happy it scares me. I’m afraid that I’ll wake up and find this is all a dream. I never knew anyone could be this happy."
"It would teach people to put their money in real estate."
"Horowitz wouldn’t play for years because he thought his fingers were made of glass."
"Einstein loved the piano. He used to play with Rubinstein, but Einstein kept playing off beat. Finally, Rubinstein couldn’t stand it anymore, and he yelled, ‘Albert, can’t you count?’"
"Congress must have been drunk to pass the Tax Reform Act. It’s going to cripple the building industry."
"At the end of the evening when Brahms left the party he said, ‘If there’s anyone here I’ve forgotten to insult, I apologize.’"
"I practice every day so I can give a concert. You see, my darling, when you put up a building and a mistake is made, it can be corrected. But at a recital, there is no second chance."
"Nothing has changed, except that I’m absolutely crazy about you, and when I go away, I’ll miss you like the devil."
"There’s no one in the world like you," Philip said. Lara rubbed a finger slowly along his cheek. "Remember that."
"He might as well have killed me, Philip thought despairingly."
"Not the real pain, Philip thought. Not the real pain."
"It’s no use." He looked at his bandaged hand. "I’m a cripple."
"You’re not a cripple. There are so many things you can do."
"I’d better get dressed," Lara said. "The mayor doesn’t like to be kept waiting."
"When things settle down a bit, I’ll be here for you."
"Let’s go away somewhere. Just the two of us."
"You’ll have the order in two to three months. I’m sorry we can’t do better..."
"I dream a dream of bricks and concrete and steel, and make it come true…"
"The only good thing about this, baby, is that I get to talk to you again."
"If someone put him up to that, I want to know who it was!"
"You made a fool of me. But you were the best thing that ever happened to me."
"I’m losing everything at once. First Philip, now my buildings."
"It’s the Fates. They’re against me. You can’t fight the Fates, can you?"