Claudia Goldin Quotes

#1. Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

#2. How do the stems connect to the roots?' 'Where is the mist coming from?' 'Why does one tree seem darker than another?' These questions are implicitly asked and answered in the process of sketching.

Alain De Botton

#3. Verily God does not reward man for what he does, but for what he is.

Zhuangzi

#4. I learned a lot. I knew I had a lot to learn because it's been so long, but that sure did show up there today.

Mark Martin

#5. I pause a second. He doesn't look at me the way Will, Christina, and Al sometimes do - like I am too small and too weak to be of any use, and they pity me for it.

Veronica Roth

#6. Football is to Texas what religion is to a priest.

Tom Landry

#7. I have this pet thing about how global communications are moving so fast now, throwing information at you, making everything available to you, and yet I feel it's leaving us more and more isolated.

Mike Rutherford

#8. I still have a lot of faith that there's very few people who are savvy enough to actually produce a good sounding copy of the record.

Jeff Tweedy

#9. I have a wife, a son, and I've had some practical life experience.

Alex Meraz

#10. I think sadness and anger are really fertile ground for comedy. No one is really interested in a happy person doing comedy.

Zach Galifianakis

#11. I've always been a pretty candid person. I'm not a very secretive person; I'm not a very discreet person. One of my best friends once described me as pathologically indiscreet.

Andrew Sullivan

#12. It is not wealth, it is not station, it is not social standing and ambition which can make us worthy of the Jewish name, of the Jewish heritage. To be worthy of them, we must live up to and with them. We must regard ourselves their custodians.

Louis D. Brandeis