Mr. David Stockman has said that supply-side economics was merely a cover for the trickle-down approach to economic policy—what an older and… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
The transformation of disease, as exemplified by the case of diabetes, is a valuable and elegant concept that serves to remind us… — Deborah Butterfield Copy Share Image
His legs have a mind of their own, his foot shoots by itself... Roberto Baggio is a big horsetail that flicks away… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
The Thickety is a sinister, magical debut with a marvelous and shocking heroine. J.A. White’s elegant writing and masterful plot kept me… — Lisa McMann Copy Share Image
From where Winston stood it was just possible to read, picked out on its white face in elegant lettering, the three slogans… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In mathematics, if I find a new approach to a problem, another mathematician might claim that he has a better, more elegant… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
He has such a patronizing tone and manner, and such a sarcastic sense of humor. I found him rather brutal, a kind… — Jeremy Northam Copy Share Image
The beautiful wooden board on a stand in my father's study. The gleaming ivory pieces. The stern king. The haughty queen. The… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
An elegant simplicity is an understated, organic aesthetic that contrasts with the excess of consumerist lifestyles. Drawing from influences ranging from Zen… — Duane Elgin Copy Share Image
With impeccable prose, dry wit, and uncommon wisdom, Ted Thompson brings to life one family's painful disappointments and powerful resilience. The Land… — Maggie Shipstead Copy Share Image
A Dream of Undying Fame is a probing, elegant and balanced book. Louis Breger shows how Freud’s traumatic childhood shaped his ambitious,… — Brenda Webster Copy Share Image
Whenever vanity and gaiety, a love of pomp and dress, furniture, equipage, buildings, great company, expensive diversions, and elegant entertainments get the… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
His sumptuous tents, and those of his satraps, afforded an immense booty to the conqueror; and an incident is mentioned which proves… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I connect fashion to other peoples' elegance, but not my own. I don't think I've ever felt elegant. I've felt appropriate, but… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Among all the accomplishments of youth there is none preferable to a decent and agreeable behavior among men, a modest freedom of… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
I read everything by Ian McEwan, he is so elegant. I love reading anything about Shakespeare, too. He is my first love.… — Kate Fleetwood Copy Share Image
I am a close friend of Robert Loggia. And I just love how, with actors, there's the screen persona. Here is Robert,… — Luanne Rice Copy Share Image
They see me wheeling around in a beautiful gown, and they realize you can look elegant, and you can lead a happy… — Anna Lee Copy Share Image
We do not live in a world that mainly suffers bad policies due to lack of ideas about better ones, or lack… — Patri Friedman Copy Share Image
Capitalism does millions of things better than the alternatives. It balances supply and demand in an elegant way that central planning has… — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
Interestingly, the actress who, in her own persona, may be gentle, shy, and socially awkward, someone whose hand trembles when pouring a… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
I have a gorgeous coat that I found at a vintage fair - it's just so elegant. Unfortunately, it has a massive… — Jessica Raine Copy Share Image
I never thought of Kim Basinger in terms of age. For me she embodies woman with her subtleties and intricacies. She's sensual… — Camilla Belle Copy Share Image
“Chicago—this vicious, stinking zoo, this mean-grinning, Mace-smelling boneyard of a city; an elegant rockpile monument to everything cruel and stupid and corrupt… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The gesture of taking the watch from the pocket and looking at the time is very elegant for a man, but if… — Richard Mille Copy Share Image
I think the whole thing that Jamie [Hyneman] and I have in working together is that we are constantly simplifying each other's… — Adam Savage Copy Share Image
It is easy to study the rules of overloading and of templates without noticing that together they are one of the keys… — Bjarne Stroustrup Copy Share Image
Heather A. Slomski's stories are downright addictive. I kept promising myself to turn off the light after just one more, and then… — Sarah Shun-lien Bynum Copy Share Image
We are embedded in the great evolutionary story of planet Earth, the spare, elegant process of mutation and selection and bricolage. And… — Ursula Goodenough Copy Share Image
I think the time is ripe for a return to the refinement of lifestyle that the pocket watch embodies. A personal pleasure… — Richard Mille Copy Share Image
When I write, the story is always uppermost in my mind, and I feel that everything must be sacrificed to it. All… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
It was a shock to people of the nineteenth century when they discovered, from observations science had made, that many features of… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
When I signed up for Google Plus, my reaction after playing around with it for a little bit was like, 'Huh, I… — Jennifer Lee Copy Share Image
Nature is impersonal, awe-inspiring, elegant, eternal. It's geometrically perfect. It's tiny and gigantic. You can travel far to be in a beautiful… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Imagine a revised edition of Shakespeare... a big, thick book with an elegant cover... You open it and find that there are… — Carter Ratcliff Copy Share Image
For relaxation, I like to figure skate. Being on the ice and spinning and jumping, I feel very close to nature. In… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
I think the deepest thing is that many fiction writers tell stories but are not elegant writers. But, we're not writing journalism… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I see it every day: People trying to create a home that somebody else tells them they should have. I don't care… — Nate Berkus Copy Share Image
evolution is a tinkerer, an ad-hocker, and a jury-rigger. It works with what it has on hand, not with what it has… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image