Econ Quotes

#1. If you've taken Econ 101, you know that the quantity of money rises only when the banking system makes a net loan.

Kenneth Fisher

#2. Econ has been the bane of my existence this whole semester, and now that it's over I feel like I could sing. Except that I can't. So I don't. (Katherine)

A.S. Green

#3. There is nothing more positive than having a stronger econ supporting jobs and that's why I believe you should vote remain thank you.

Ruth Davidson

#4. When I registered for econ, I had no idea that I'd be in for this level of reality-show drama. It's like a big fat bonus.

Tammara Webber

#5. Sociology has gone the way of poli-sci and econ, now firmly in the clutches of rabid number crunchers who have abandoned or forgotten the link between their abstruse theoretical musings and the presence of human beings on the planet's surface;

Julie Schumacher

#6. The media simply does not understand Econ 101.

Mark Skousen

#7. So what are the effects of increasing minimum wages? Any Econ 101 student can tell you the answer: The higher wage reduces the quantity of labor demanded, and hence leads to unemployment.

Paul Krugman

#8. Historically, large-scale global trade has served two functions: 1) the exchange of goods between willing sellers and buyers described in Econ 101 textbooks; 2) as a tool of state aggrandizement, in which the private parties are stand-ins for governmental interests.

Charles C. Mann

#9. I can't wake up at all without caffeine.

Andrew Rannells

#10. With great power ... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.

Rick Riordan

#11. I'm in love with my job and money comes with that. I do what I can, and in life and in general, you're rewarded for hard work.

Luis D. Ortiz

#12. The music's rehearsed a lot. All people think about is, they think, in rock 'n' roll, they get the music off right and they think it's okay standing, looking macho. Well, it's not. That's boring. If you want to be a performer you've got to do a lot more work than that.

Mick Jagger

#13. If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.

Wendell Berry

#14. Art-making is learned by immersion. You take in vocabularies of thought and feeling, grammar, diction, gesture, from the poems of others, and emerge with the power to turn language into a lathe for re-shaping, re-knowing your own tongue, heart, and life ...

Jane Hirshfield

#15. I often look at places and kind of mentally convert them to fantasy versions of themselves.

Samantha Shannon

#16. We all have fertile creative periods and times when we can't figure out how we ever did it.

Cynthia Weil

#17. Urban retrofitting: creating different sorts of spaces and uses out of places that are already there.

Alex Steffen

#18. I've never wanted to be a fireman, in my life. I've never really wanted to grow up and be anything other than a film director.

David Gordon Green

#19. When you're not used to comfort and good things to eat, you're intoxicated by them in no time. Truth's only too pleased to leave you. Very little is ever needed for Truth to let go of you. And after all, you're not really very keen to keep hold of it.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#20. In fact, there are autism clusters, you know, around some of the big tech centers. You take two socially awkward computer programmers and put them together, that can kind of concentrate the autistic genes.

Temple Grandin