Quotes About Freakonomics

#1. Were writing Freakonomics, we had grave doubts that anyone would actually read it - and we certainly never envisioned the need for this revised and expanded edition.

Steven D. Levitt

#2. Good people eat all their veggies and all the fruits, but they still have good grades. I call this, Freakonomics."
-Adam Pazandak

Adam

#3. A woman's income appeal is a bell-shaped curve: men do not want to date low-earning women, but once a woman starts earning too much, they seem to be scared off.

Steven D. Levitt

#4. I love the creation of these things - I love the sculpting, I love the coloring. Half the joy is fabricating the world, the creatures.

Guillermo Del Toro

#5. You wouldn't meet a Joe Frazier down today and then up tomorrow, said hello to big shots then ignore someone on the lower level; he was the most consistent human being. What you see is what you get.

George Foreman

#6. A good funeral gets the dead where they need to go and the living where they need to be.

Thomas Lynch

#7. Thoughts exchanged by one and another are not the same in one room as in another.

Louis Kahn

#8. From Charades: when she was younger she was a frustrated mother, so she is pleased when her children act as is they don't remember

Lorrie Moore

#9. I am so pathetic with machines in real life, it's not a joke. I'd rather walk, or even run, than take the car out myself. I like to be driven around. Yes, I like fancy cars, and fancy bikes, too. It's my dream to learn how to ride one myself, but for now, I am content being driven around.

Bipasha Basu

#10. It's easy to impress me. I don't need a fancy party to be happy. Just good friends, good food, and good laughs. I'm happy. I'm satisfied. I'm content.

Maria Sharapova

#11. Just because the sexes are equal doesn't mean that sex is.

Daria Snadowsky

#12. Because you, my dear, of all people know what a magical place a bookshop can be and that everyone needs a little magic in their lives. I

Annie Darling

#13. What we learn from History is that no one learns from History

Otto Von Bismarck

#14. People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.

Alan Moore

#15. One difference between film noir and more straightforward crime pictures is that noir is more open to human flaws and likes to embed them in twisty plot lines.

Roger Ebert

#16. Minds are like parachutes, they don't function unless they are open.

Philip C. Baridon