The temptation to use mathematics is irresistible for…

Despite the high salaries involved, employing economists is a cost-effective way for banks, and stockbrokers to secure exposure in the media.

— Paul Ormerod

The obstacles facing academic economists are formidable, for tenure and professional advancement still depend to a large extent on a willingness to comply with…

— Paul Ormerod

Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius, throwing the reader of a book, or the spectator of…

— Isaac D'Israeli

“At the Bank of Consequences there are no overdraft facilities, and debts are called in as soon as they are noticed”

— Peter Wells

“The clock of time is a wild child, one that can neither be controlled nor disciplined, it simply slips away from your hand while…

— Priyansha Vashi

Snoopy (musing on his rooftop): Good Grief! Is it November already? My life is going by too fast. I think someone pushed the "Fast…

— Charles M. Schulz

To say anything about women and men without marking oneself as either feminist or anti-feminist, male-basher or apologist for men seems as impossible for…

— Deborah Tannen

“In my mind I compared Elen and Vintel. Next to Elen, Vintel appeared to be no more than a simpleminded blunderer, yet the grief…

— Catherine M. Wilson

“No living creature should have to feel so exposed in death, washed up on the beach in mangled meat of bloody distortion.”

— Mehreen Ahmed

Children often have been likened to scientists. Both ask fundamental questions about the nature of the universe. Both also ask innumerable questions that seem…

— Robert S. Siegler

I pluck up the good lissome herbs of sentences by pruning, eat them by reading, digest them by musing, and lay them up at…

— Elizabeth I

“Sitting to think of what to write will only set your ass on fire, give you headache, twist your face to look stupid, instead,…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“Opening a present from a live person was scary enough. There was always the chance that the gift might be so wrong, so completely…

— Carol Rifka Brunt

“Strange, how in all those apocalyptic movies, when their society breaks down into lawlessness and anarchy, Canada is always the haven of safety, the…

— Jenifer Mohammed

“Old Man River! That seems far too austere a name For something made of mirth and rage. O, roiling red-blood river vein, If chief…

— Tracy J. Butler