Freakonomics Important Quotes & Sayings

Work is a sovereign remedy for all ills, and a man who loves to work will never be unhappy. — Ellen Swallow Richards

If you must keep groaning, please try to do it in a rhythm I can dance to. — Ashleigh Brilliant

A lot of Christians have been taught a story that begins in chapter 3 of Genesis, instead of chapter 1. If your story doesn't begin in the beginning, but begins in chapter 3, then it starts with sin, and so the story becomes about dealing with the sin problem. So Jesus is seen as primarily dealing with our sins. — Rob Bell

Sometimes you are being interviewed by someone and you think, if I knew this person they'd be my best friend. Other times you're being interviewed by a complete jerk. — Judith Guest

Nothing impresses the ladies like a clean, pressed pair of khakis and a large pattern shirt featuring either classic cars, mojitos or men playing golf. — Tim Heidecker

Our mothers' generation fought so hard to change things and we're the first generation to benefit. And now you get girls in their twenties who say they're not feminists. — Kristin Davis

Correct English is the slang of prigs ... — George Eliot

I'm tired of being the funniest person in the room. — Del Close

I'm not gay, but for Edward Cullen I'd make an exception. — Anna Jones Buttimore

I'm just going to keep dialing it in and keep practicing. — Shaun White

Those experiments be not only esteemed which have an immediate and present use, but those principally which are of most universal consequence for invention of other experiments, and those which give more light to the invention of causes; for the invention of the mariner's needle, which giveth the direction, is of no less benefit for navigation than the invention of the sails, which give the motion. — Francis Bacon

The award is important in order to bring people to the movie theater. That's the only principle meaning of any award. — Javier Bardem