Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Krugman

I've always believed that a speculative bubble need not lead to a recession, as long as interest rates are cut quickly enough to stimulate alternative investments. But I had to face the fact that speculative bubbles usually are followed by recessions. My excuse has been that this was because the policy makers moved too slowly - that central banks were typically too slow to cut interest rates in the face of a burst bubble, giving the downturn time to build up a lot of momentum.

Paul Krugman

Congress has always had a soft spot for "experts" who tell members what they want to hear, whether it's supply-side economists declaring that tax cuts increase revenue or climate-change skeptics insisting that global warming is a myth.

Patrick Carman

Yeah, a lot more than he likes you," said Oh. It didn't look like Milo appreciated the joke very much. "That's debatable," said Milo. "Is not," said Oh. She leaned in and put her pink cast against my cheek, kissing me quickly on the lips. "That's incredibly unfair. If we were gay you'd be up a creek without a paddle. You wouldn't even be in the game." "He's right, you know," I said. "Aw. You guys are having a bromance. That's really cute.

Maggie Stiefvater

My wolf was a cute guy and he was holding my hand. I could die happy.

Maggie Stiefvater

Counter Girl (in candy shop): You two are cute. Seriously. How long have you been going out? Sam: Six years.

Maggie Stiefvater

Sam came around the side of the car and stopped dead when he saw me. “Oh my God, what is THAT?” I used my thumb and middle finger to flick the multicolored pom-pom on top of my head. “In my language, we call it a HAT. It keeps my ears warm.” “Oh my God,” Sam said again, and closed the distance between us. He cupped my face in his hands and studied me. “It’s horribly cute.” He kissed me, looked at the hat, and then he kissed me again. I vowed never to lose the pom-pom hat.

Madame de Stael

[To Bonaparte, when asked why she meddled in politics:] Sire, when women have their heads cut off, it is but just they should know the reason.

Madame de Stael

we always cut our poetical theories to suit our talent ...

Haruki Murakami

Once you let yourself grow close to someone, cutting the ties could be painful.

Haruki Murakami

Time really is one big continuous cloth, no? We habitually cut out pieces of time to fit us, so we tend to fool ourselves into thinking that time is our size, but it really goes on and on.

Haruki Murakami

You’re really cute, Midori,” I corrected myself. “What do you mean really cute?” “So cute the mountains crumble and the oceans dry up.

Haruki Murakami

Everyone just keeps on disappearing. Some things vanish, like they were cut away. Others fade slowly into the mist. And all that remains is a desert.

Haruki Murakami

Let me just tell you this, Watanabe," said Midori, pressing her cheek against my neck. "I'm a real, live girl, with real, live blood gushing through my veins. You're holding me in your arms and I'm telling you that I love you. I'm ready to do anything you tell me to do. I may be a little bit mad, but I'm a good girl, and honest, and I work hard, I'm kind of cute, I have nice boobs, I'm a good cook, and my father left me a trust fund. I mean, I'm a real bargain, don't you think? If you don't take me, I'll end up going somewhere else.

Haruki Murakami

Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, usurped ideals, inflexible systems. Those are the things that really frighten me. What I absolutely fear and loathe.

Harlan Coben

A dancer on break approached him. She smiled. Each tooth was angled in a different direction, as if her mouth were the masterwork of a mad orthodontist. "Hi," she said. "Hi." "You're really cute." "I don't have any money." She spun and walked away. Ah, romance.

Gustave Courbet

Without trying to clear up the degree of correctness of a qualification which no one, one must hope, will be asked to understand exactly, I will limit myself to a few words of explanation to cut short any misunderstandings.

Gordon Strachan

You people sometimes are like those serial killers you see in films who cut out the words 'I am going to get you' or 'your wife is next'.

Gordon Ramsay

I was a naturally aggressive left-back, a cut-throat tackler.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Modern science is necessarily a double-edged tool, a tool that cuts both ways. ... There is no doubt that a Zeppelin is a wonderful thing; but that did not prevent it from becoming a horrible thing.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Jim Wallis

So when the only domestic social policy is tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthiest Americans, we say, 'Where is faith being put into action here?'

John Cleese

A lot of humour is about just enjoying life and spontaneity and because you make a joke that puts somebody down - we're always teasing each other. It's with affection. It's nasty teasing that we - not all teasing; nasty teasing you cut out.

M. Scott Peck

Love is the free exercise of choice. Two people love each other only when they are quite capable of living without each other but choose to live with each other.

John Cena

A lot of the stuff that I say doesn't even make TV because it gets cut out. So if you're at the live events you get to hear what I have to say, but if you're watching on TV, you're only getting about 50% of it.

You could see the muscle and it was the worst hockey cut I've ever seen in my life. It was a tough thing to look at.

Jules Shear

You could put this record on and not get jarred half-way through. I wanted it to be all cut from one cloth, and that was the way we took it through the whole production process.

You could have it cut and have a customized diamond for your wife.

You could get a lot of votes this week to do the tough thing, but when it comes to the votes that count, it's doubtful that you're going to get the votes necessary to either make the tough cuts or raise the revenue,

You can't exactly take all the phones and dump them into the ocean. The longer the phones are sitting around, the less they're worth, which means you either have to cut prices or write down inventory.

Robbie Coltrane

You can tell when people worry about things that don't really matter. For example, you should never worry about the level of performance you has given in that particular scene because there's going to be 10 takes, which is wildly over the top, it would end up on the cutting room floor.

You can't tell me the state can cut this money and that services aren't reduced. You can't say the savings is going to come off the administrative end. Because of (Medicaid) cost-containment in 2003-2004, administration was cut then. There's not a whole lot of administrative (cost) left.

Leon Panetta

You can't slam dunk a tax cut package the size they're talking about, ... Late Edition.

Leon Panetta

You can't slam dunk a tax cut package the size they're talking about,