Underpins Define Quotes

#1. The potential gains from improved stabilization policies are on the order of hundredths of a percent of consumption, perhaps two orders of magnitude smaller than the potential benefits of available supply-side fiscal reforms.

Robert Lucas Jr.

#2. Today I tried to pick up something I was standing on. It didn't work out well.

Peter James West

#3. To get, simply release, and then gently invite.

Bryant McGill

#4. The point is you are supposed to vote for the principle of the thing, not the itsy-bitsy detail about this percent and that percent.

Helen Fielding

#5. You want to be the guy who makes an impact in every game. In this sport it's all about results-winning games and making the playoffs.

Martin St. Louis

#6. He was in a strange, badly lit room, wearing even stranger clothes, getting an earful from an unknown woman, in a language that he could and couldn't exactly place in a very disturbing way.
These were not his memories.

Angelo Tsanatelis

#7. Here's the thing, Brian. From across the room, I'll admit death looks like a real babe. But I've been close enough to see what's under her makeup, and no thanks. Really.

Mishell Baker

#8. There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#9. When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.

Gary Hamel

#10. You could eat sushi off my bookshelf. My cleaning regime is like a battleground. I'm Genghis Khan and my cleaning products are my Mongolian army and I take no prisoners. The rest of my life is an experiment in chaos so I like to keep my flat neat.

Ryan Adams

#11. Music, not being made up of objects nor referring to objects, is intangible and ineffable; it can only be as it were inhaled by the spirit: the rest is silence.

Jacques Barzun

#12. Curving back within myself I create again and again.

Anonymous

#13. It's like there's this knowledge hanging in the air that one person has more power than the other, and we're supposed to pretend everything is nice and normal and equal, but in reality, luck or chance has showered benefits on one person that the other person couldn't dream of.

Sara Benincasa