Krugman Books Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes ... you can cry until there's nothing wet in you. You can scream and curse to where your throat rebels and ruptures. You can pray, all you want, to whatever god you think will listen. And, still it makes no difference. It goes on, with no sign as to when it might release you. And you know that if it ever did relent ... it would not be because it cared. — Jhonen Vasquez

But the same things that had once attracted menow left me with a mild sense of unease.
Ivy would say I was getting smarter, but I just felt ... empty. — Kim Harrison

I think guys are more emotional. Men are supposed to be the strong ones, they have pressure on them to be strong, but when it comes to sex men are much more emotional than women. — Patti Smith

The boss drives people; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on authority; the leader on good will. The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says I; The leader says WE. The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown. The boss says, GO; the leader says Lets GO! — Harry Gordon Selfridge

It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms. — Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.

It is not only all right but necessary to stand up to George Bush. — Russ Feingold

My father is an economist who specialized in foreign food policy, and my mother worked for AID, a branch of the State Department, so food in regards to world affairs was talked about a lot. — Jennifer Gilmore

America is distorting the image of what a real family looks like;
and it has nothing to do with love. DON'T LET THEM ERASE US. — Delano Johnson

Our popular economics writers, however, are not in the business of giving their readers a ringside seat on the research action; with no exception I can think of, they use their books to do an end run around the normal structure of scholarship, to preach ideas that few serious economists share. Often, these ideas are not just at odds with the professional consensus; they are demonstrably wrong, and sometimes terminally silly. But they sound good to the unwary reader. — Paul Krugman

Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don't think so ... I have to compete with popular culture, including TV, magazines, movies and video games. — Haruki Murakami

The problem with digital books is that you can always find what you are looking for but you need to go to a bookstore to find what you weren't looking for. — Paul Krugman