"Our popular economics writers, however, are not in the business of giving their readers a ringside seat on the research action; with no exception I can think of, they use their books to do an end run around the normal structure of scholarship, to preach ideas that few serious economists share. Often, these ideas are not just at odds with the professional consensus; they are demonstrably wrong, and sometimes terminally silly. But they sound good to the unwary reader."

-- Paul Krugman

#Running Quotes #Silly Quotes #Book Quotes

“Luxury is the ease of a t-shirt in a very expensive dress.”
“Yes, for my undergrad I majored in Criminal Justice and minored in Political Science and English.”
“I remember a long, long day of filming and it took forever to get Kirk Douglas up on his cross. We played a terrible joke on him when, as he was safely installed, the assistant director called lunch and left him up there. He could have had the lot of us fired but he was very good about it. You have to have a sense of humor in this industry.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Young man, sit down: when God pleases to convert the heathen, He will do it without your aid or mine.”
“I work a lot in the summers. My family goes to Maine, where we have a little house. My wife's a writer, too, and we can write for six hours a day and then play with the kids.”

Source : "Ben Marcus: 'Writing has to earn people's interest'". Interview with Killian Fox, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2012.
“The only obsession everyone wants: 'love.' People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you're whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You're whole, and then you're cracked open.”

Source : FaceBook post by Philip Roth from Jan 22, 2017
“The fans are bad everywhere you go, with language, and with behavior. You can't put enough cops in the stands, but you ought to give the cops cameras, give people cameras, so they can take a picture of the idiot and you can identify him.”
“No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy.”

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