Famous Quotes & Sayings

Milton Friedman

Significant changes in the growth rate of money supply, even small ones, impact the financial markets first. Then, they impact changes in the real economy, usually in six to nine months, but in a range of three to 18 months. Usually in about two years in the US, they correlate with changes in the rate of inflation or deflation." "The leads are long and variable, though the more inflation a society has experienced, history shows, the shorter the time lead will be between a change in money supply growth and the subsequent change in inflation.

Milton Friedman

You never have real changes unless you have a time of crisis.

Milton Friedman

There's no doubt in my mind that Ronald Reagan was by far the greatest. Because he had real principles and he stuck by them. He made clear what he was going to do, and he did it. He didn't back down.

Milton Friedman

Reality ensures that the end of history will never come.

Milton Friedman

Only a crisis—actual or perceived—produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around.

Milton Friedman

A minimum-wage law is, in reality, a law that makes it illegal for an employer to hire a person with limited skills.

Milton Friedman

A real gold standard is thoroughly consistent with [classical] liberal principles and I, for one, am entirely in favor of measures promoting its development.

Mike Singletary

You never really know about a quarterback until he plays in a real game.

But we're looking at 500 households - that's a lot of people. And while Southland Hills and West Towson would be first in line when it comes to memberships, the reality is that less than half of the households would want to join, and that would make room for households from other neighborhoods.

Mike Easley

Real vision demands that we make tough choices. Real vision is responsible and it is paid for.

Mike Epps

But I'm real conscious about what I do. I don't care what the label is. I'm looking at the outcome of it.

Mike Birbiglia

I feel like we can prove in real time the old trope that comedy is tragedy plus time.

Mike Birbiglia

You've got to remember that improvisers are writers and actors and directors all simultaneously. That's what's happening in real time because you're writing on your feet, and you are acting out the words and you are directing what the staging is. You're deciding what staging is.

Nathan Gamble

I was a big fan of Indiana Jones; then I realized he was kind of a fake hero. The real heroes are the people who work hard and do their stuff right, like firefighters and policemen.

J. K. Rowling

Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?

J. K. Rowling

I sat and thought for four (delayed train) hours, and all the details bubbled up in my brain, and this scrawny, black-haired, bespectacled boy who didn't know he was a wizard became more and more real to me.

J. K. Rowling

One of the many things I learned at the end of that Classics corridor down which I ventured at the age of 18, in search of something I could not then define, was this, written by the Greek author Plutarch: What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. That is an astonishing statement and yet proven a thousand times every day of our lives. It expresses, in part, our inescapable connection with the outside world, the fact that we touch other people’s lives simply by existing.

J. K. Rowling

... you could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's proved it doesn't exist!

J. K. Rowling

But people only die in proper duels, you know, with real wizards. The most you and Malfoy’ll be able to do is send sparks at each other. Neither of you knows enough magic to do any real damage. I bet he expected you to refuse, anyway.” “And what if I wave my wand and nothing happens?” “Throw it away and punch him on the nose,” Ron suggested.

J. K. Rowling

Those who choose not to empathize enable real monsters, for without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves we collude with it through our apathy.

Ivan Krastev

Authoritarianism is not pretending anymore to be a real alternative to democracy, but we can see many more authoritarian practices and styles basically being smuggled into democratic governments.

Ivan Reitman

The real trick for me as a director is to make sure that people don't start pushing because the harder you push as a perform the less funny it becomes.

Ivan Reitman

I call it like the domino theory of reality. If you can go one step at a time and it seems to make sense, you can then take your audience into an area that is relatively outlandish.

Ivan Reitman

A good actor is someone who knows how to take the part and make it real and make it honest and be effective in it. If it's in a funny movie and, as long as they are cast in an appropriate way, humor will come from it.

H. L. Mencken

Religion is a conceited effort to deny the most obvious realities.

H. L. Mencken

Bridges would not be safer if only people who knew the proper definition of a real number were allowed to design them.

H. L. Mencken

The real man lies in the depths of subconscious.

H. L. Mencken

It is, indeed, one of the capital tragedies of youth-and youth is the time of real tragedy-that the young are thrown mainly with adults they do not quite respect.

Gugu Mbatha-Raw

It's not often that you get a chance in one role to do the glamour bit and then strip off all the makeup and reveal the real person beneath the façade. Usually, it's either a glamorous role or a raw, emotional role.

Guillaume Apollinaire

In this mirror, I am enclosed a live and real as you. Imagine angels and not like the reflections.

Guillermo del Toro

Night is real. Night is not an absence of light, but in fact, it is daytime that is a brief respite from the looming darkness…

Guillermo del Toro

I love REAL set construction and think that sets are very important part of the storytelling and scope of a film...

Guillermo del Toro

In real life, what scares me is politicians, corporations and people that think they know what the world should be.