John Maynard Keynes Quotes

There is no harm in being sometimes wrong - especially if one is promptly found out.

John Maynard Keynes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: economist
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: June 5, 1883 - April 21, 1946

Topics

WrongSometimesOutBeingHarm

My favorite thing to do is still to go back to Peoria, go to my cabin and hunt with the boys. This is a great lifestyle, don't get me wrong. But fun for me is going back with my buddies I grew up with.

Jim Thome

GreatFunMeBackWrongLifestyle

Who's to say a blues man can't play rock and roll?

Joe Bonamassa

ManRock And RollBluesPlayRock

I love form, but I'm not interested in forms. I've never written a sonnet or villanelle or sestina or any of that. For me, it's a kind of line. It's a rhythm. It's something musical.

Robert Pinsky

LoveMeKindNeverRhythmLine

There's a lot of judges on TV in America. Apart from Judge Judy, the vast majority of them are terrible.

Robert Rinder

JudgeAmericaJudgesTerribleTV

If you want to maintain a sustainable supply of fish you have to farm the fish, rather than mine them. So putting your money into fishing fleets that are going to exacerbate the problem by over-fishing is not the way to preserve the underlying asset.

Maurice Strong

MoneyFishingFishProblemFarmYou

I'm a very comfortable and happy-go-lucky old man. I never wanted to be great, because I'd just get worried.

Tom T. Hall

GreatManOld ManComfortableNever

Think what a revolution it will be if we manage to get everyone to pay their taxes.

Romano Prodi

RevolutionThinkWillTaxesPayGet

Poetry privileges music and is aesthetically more challenging. Prose privileges information and is emotionally more challenging.

Mary Karr

MusicPoetryInformationMoreProse

Music for me is a bit more spiritual. There are moments when I'm sitting at my piano, and I don't realize that I've been playing for two hours - it feels like divine power. I know it's so cheesy.

Mary Lambert

MusicPowerSpiritualMeMoments

Companies are experimenting with replacing sodium chloride with potassium chloride, because most of the health problems come from sodium. It works for some products, but if you diminish the amount of sodium, people want sugar and fat instead.

Michael Moss

HealthPeopleProblemsFatYouWant

I've rewritten other films and watched my writing be mutilated, but luckily, it's been mutilated anonymously.

Christopher McQuarrie

WritingBeenOtherWatchedRewritten

Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.

Clive Bell

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