John Keneth Galbraith Quotes & Sayings

Maybe a person's time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food. — Frank A. Clark

In wintertime I like to wear flannel button down pyjamas, and in summer I prefer to wear, well ... nothing. — Phoebe Tonkin

I think Marshawn Lynch is the most important player in this football game. — Kurt Warner

Blessed are the uncool; for they shall be happy without needing the approval of others. — Rick Warren

I wouldn't mind producing a movie with a music storyline, but acting in one is too close to home. — Garth Brooks

From the walls of Baidi high in the coloured dawn To Jiangling by night-fall is three hundred miles, Yet monkeys are still calling on both banks behind me To my boat these ten thousand mountains away. — Li Bai

You can't be blocked if you just keep on writing words. Any words. People who get 'blocked' make the mistake of thinking they have to write good words. — Martha Grimes

If love was absent, you would not feel disappointed; you would feel indifferent. — Staci Bartley

They were so ignorant! Young men and women, educated very carefully to be apolitical, to be technicians who thought they disliked politics, making them putty in the hands of their rulers, just like always. It was appalling how stupid they were, really, and he could not help lashing into them. — Kim Stanley Robinson

The Affluent Society not only changed the way the country viewed itself, but gave new phrases to the language: Conventional wisdom, the bland leading the bland, private opulence and public squalor. — Amartya Sen

Within my words there is a longing
To be written, through the senses to travel across the mind
To be perceived by your heart, to rest in your deep. — Preeth Nambiar

Heroes don't have the need to be known as heroes, they just do what heroes do because it is right and it must be done. — Richelle E. Goodrich

For me, the historical and genealogical library is the one I use. I'm working on, I'll say, it's a time travel novel. I haven't written very much of it. That's the dirty secret of the Cullman center: The writers don't write their fiction there, they just do their research. — Andrew Sean Greer

I voted for Justice Breyer and Justice Ginsburg. Not because I agreed with their ideology, but because I thought they were qualified and that elections have consequences when presidents are nominated. — John McCain

Long ago life was clean, sex was bad and obscene, and the rich were so mean. Stately homes for the Lords, croquet lawns, village greens, Victoria was my queen. — Ray Davies