Paul Krugman Quotes

As I've often said, you can shop online and find whatever you're looking for, but bookstores are where you find what you weren't looking for.

Paul Krugman

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• When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Love
  • You
  • Learn

• With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Humility
  • Alive
  • Him

• Well, you know, I feel like it's about a lot of things. The reason that I made it was because I thought it was really funny and unique and just a different genre.

  

  Danny DeVito
  • Different
  • Funny
  • Unique

• I know what hard times are like. I didn't grow up with a silver spoon in my mouth. I've had struggles.

  

  Draymond Green
  • Up

• What I love about the Don Draper character is that he's so real and filled with all these contradictions.

  

  Jerry Della Femina
  • Real
  • Character

• Life is chaotic, dangerous, and surprising. Buildings should reflect that.

  

  Frank Gehry
  • Life

• I always loved Sid Caesar and all the people on his program.

  

  Alan Alda
  • People
  • Loved
  • Program

• He did not dare to console her, knowing that it would have been like consoling a tiger run thru by a spear.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Tiger

• Mathematics is merely the means to a general and ultimate knowledge of man.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Man
  • Knowledge
  • Mathematics

• Why do I make myself miserable over things that years from now no one will even care about? If I knew that, maybe I could be happy.

  

  Allan Stratton
  • Happy
  • Care
  • Miserable

• I don't know what I'd do if I had to look pretty all the time.

  

  Shirley Henderson
  • Knows
  • Looks

• The Arts are fundamental resources through which the world is viewed, meaning is created, and the mind developed. To neglect the contribution of the Arts in education, either through inadequate time, resources, or poorly trained teachers, is to deny children access to one of the most stunning aspects of their culture and one of the most potent means for developing their minds.

  

  Elliot W. Eisner
  • Children
  • Culture
  • Education

• I should also mention that the Neue Galerie is piping music into the galleries where "Klee and America" is hanging, a practice for which vulgar is not even close to the word. Yes, I like Schumann's Carnaval, but I'm damned if I know why anybody thinks the paintings of Paul Klee profit from being viewed with Carnaval playing in the background.

  

  Terry Teachout
  • Practice
  • Painting
  • Profit

• I love technology, and I love new gadgets. I can no longer figure out how to use any of them, but I love them.

  

  Jerry Zucker
  • Technology

• They know they got the TV ad, they know they got the name recognition, they know that they can do a tie in with McDonald's or some fast food outlet and the money is just gonna flow in.

  

  Gene Siskel
  • Money
  • Food

• At the back of it there lies the central citadel of obstinacy: I will not give up my right to myself--the thing God intends you to give up if ever you are going to be a disciple of Jesus Christ.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Up
  • God
  • Jesus

• I am trying my hardest to stay away from the horror movies just because I feel like people are thinking that's what I do, that I'm a scream queen. I'd like to stay away from that.

  

  A. J. Cook
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• Humanity can be roughly divided into three sorts of people - those who find comfort in literature, those who find comfort in personal adornment, and those who find comfort in food.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Food
  • Humanity
  • Literature

• The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • Book
  • Mood
  • Fact

• We were twelve years old, but we walked along the hot streets of the neighborhood, amid the dust and flies that the occasional old trucks stirred up as they passed, like two old ladies taking the measure of lives of disappointment, clinging tightly to each other. No one understood us, only we two—I thought—understood one another.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Disappointment
  • Measure
  • Neighborhood

• Bookstores contain groceries for the mind!

  

  Jen Selinsky
  • Mind
  • Bookstores
  • Groceries

• I grew up in rural Tennessee. There were no bookstores in the town, but the school had a little library and the town had a little library, each with a patient and enthusiastic librarian, and I raced into both as if they were doorways to another world.

  

  Michael Sims
  • School
  • Enthusiastic
  • Bookstores

• As I've often said, you can shop online and find whatever you're looking for, but bookstores are where you find what you weren't looking for.

  

  Paul Krugman
  • Bookstores
  • Shop online