Normative Economics Quotes

#1. Normative Economics is like religion without the aesthetics.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#2. Today, music is great for entertainment, but it is lacking soul; it's lacking substance, and it's difficult to find good stuff. There are too many corporate interests. It's not about the actual music because it's about the corporation, and music just becomes part of a package.

Ziggy Marley

#3. Positive economics is in principle independent of any particular ethical position or normative judgment ... In short, positive economics is or can be an "objective" science.

Milton Friedman

#4. Love is a boomerang that returns to the thrower's hand.

Austin O'Malley

#5. William Cowper said that God made the country, and man made the town. If it was the opposite, there would be no country; because town can be created from the country but the country cannot be created from the town!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#6. Once again I glimpsed the way in which departure ripped the veil from ordinary life, revealing things that were normally kept hidden.

Margot Livesey

#7. From the beginning, I knew intuitively that if nothing else, music was safe, and that nobody could tell me anything about it. Music didn't need a middleman, whereas all the other things in school needed some kind of explanation.

Eric Clapton

#8. I think anything like that-
which is contemplative, silent, shows a person alone-
people always feel sad. Is it because we've lost the art of being alone?

Andrew Wyeth

#9. I think there's nothing better than seeing a three-chord straight up rock 'n' roll band in your face with sweaty music and three minute good songs.

Joan Jett

#10. Awards don't really mean much.

Uta Hagen

#11. My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived.

Mason Cooley

#12. I grew up in the heart of the Depression.

Bob Cousy

#13. Changing a college curriculum is like moving a graveyard-you never know how many friends the dead have until you try to move them!

Calvin Coolidge