Freakonomics Chapter 5 Quotes & Sayings

Hey, how come you told those
girls your name was Jet?"
"Standard practice if you don't want
chicks to find you later, Sage. Besides, I figured I was protecting our operation
here."
"Yeah, but why Jet? Why not ... I
don't know ... Travis or John?"
Adrian gave me a look that said I was
wasting his time. "Because Jet sounds
badass. — Richelle Mead

Winter glanced over at Cirrus again and found him glaring at Moon and Kinkajou with an expression of searing hatred, so intense that Winter wanted to run across the clearing and fling up his wings to shield Moon from it. — Tui T. Sutherland

It takes two guys on a team to do very well in the end and be successful. — Ed Belfour

No one in my writers' room can wear sweatpants. — Amy Sherman-Palladino

It would be difficult, in this day and age, to fund art that made racial slurs. — Jane Alexander

That's the age that people are exploited, exploitable, and they're easily manipulated. The problem with me is, you can't manipulate me anymore. I've seen it, I know it, I've been there. And that's partially why, particularly in America, you see issues with artists as they get older. And they like to keep it a young man's game. Because that's how they can fudge around with the rules. — Billy Corgan

Lack is more in means, than in principles. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Do not take advantage of each other, but fear your God. I am the LORD your God. — Anonymous

Filmmaking creates a sort of - trust, maybe. It has led me to a group of people I feel good with. We have something in common because of film, when otherwise we might have nothing. — Claire Denis

For me, the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden, or they are branches of the same majestic tree. Therefore, they are equally true, though being received and interpreted through human instruments equally imperfect. — Mahatma Gandhi

She really mellowed me out that way. We both definitely grew with each other and with the whole experience. — Brian Austin Green