Tradeoffs Economics Quotes & Sayings

It took me a while to figure it out, but to have a real hit on Broadway, you have to get the respected Broadway people to like it. But then the production also has to appeal to the most middle-class people who know nothing about Broadway and who come to see it later. — John Waters

In those years before mobile phones, email and Skype, travelers depended on the rudimentary communications system known as the postcard. Other methods
the long-distance phone call, the telegram
were marked "For Emergency Use Only." So my parents waved me off into the unknown, and their news bulletins about me would have been restricted to "Yes, he's arrived safely,"and "Last time we heard he was in Oregon," and "We expect him back in a few weeks." I'm not saying this was necessarily better, let alone more character-forming; just that in my case it probably helped not to have my parents a button's touch away, spilling out anxieties and long-range weather forecasts, warning me against floods, epidemics and psychos who preyed on backpackers. — Julian Barnes

I'm glad people think I'm a badass. I'm a rock and roller, and I'm an R&B and a blueswoman. I don't do fairy music, although I love Celtic music and sensitive music. There's a balance between ballads and kick-ass songs. — Bonnie Raitt

Yes, September, We have all of us got it jumbled up. You never feel so grown up as when you are eleven, and never so young and unsure as when you are forty. That is why time is a rotten jokester and no one aught to let him in to dinner. — Catherynne M Valente

In the house of poetry nothing endures that is not written with blood to be heard with blood. — Pablo Neruda

The worst pain you can imagine is when something you love goes away and nothing you can do will ever bring it back. — M.K. Meredith

When Today Is Properly Lived With Purpose, Love And Passion, There Is No Fear For Tomorrow. — Yemi Akinsiwaju

What had just happened between us in this bed was every woman's erotic fantasy. He was totally dominant, powerful and confident, skilled and passionate and attentive. — Jasinda Wilder

the representative committee, — Lao She

It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies - character-driven stuff. — Tatiana Maslany