Amy Tan Mother Tongue Quotes & Sayings

God is a sadist on the Juan de Fuca Ridge, and His name is Physics. — Peter Watts

Americans don't have deep gastronomic roots. They wanted to get away from the cultures of Europe or wherever they came from. We stirred up that melting pot pretty quickly. — Alice Waters

It is our beliefs, more than our experiences, that determine life's possibilities. — Gina Greenlee

And if there are gods after all, perhaps we should not struggle so hard to get their attention, if this is the attention they would lavish upon us. — Cherie Priest

I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated. — James Brown

We do everything we can to protect the people we love, whatever it takes, and it's not enough. Unlike bone, once that illusionary magic circle is broken, it can never be completely repaired, and it is not stronger at the break. — Craig Johnson

Gratitude is the seed of gladness. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The most important secret of salesmanship is to find out what the other fellow wants, then help him find the best way to get it — Frank Bettger

With the terrifying suddenness to which I, the Northerner, never grew accustomed, the equatorial night rushed down upon us and the moon came up. — Dore Strauch

Yet some of my friends tell me they understand 50 percent of what my mother says. Some say they understand 80 to 90 percent. Some say they understand none of it, as if she were speaking pure Chinese. But to me, my mother's English is perfectly clear, perfectly natural. It's my mother tongue. Her language, as I hear it, is vivid, direct, full of observation and imagery. That was the language that helped shape the way I saw things, expressed things, made sense of the world — Amy Tan

That's my one rule: always take off my makeup; no matter how tired I am before going to bed, it comes off! — Amber Le Bon

The stench of self-satisfaction is becoming quite suffocating. If you mean to kill me, blast me to a cinder now and let's be done, — Joe Abercrombie

Everything is a learning process: any time you fall over, it's just teaching you to stand up the next time. — Joel Edgerton

Over the long term, it's hard for a stock to earn a much better return that the business which underlies it earns. If the business earns six percent on capital over forty years and you hold it for that forty years, you're not going to make much different than a six percent return - even if you originally buy it at a huge discount. Conversely, if a business earns eighteen percent on capital over twenty or thirty years, even if you pay an expensive looking price, you'll end up with one hell of a result. — Charlie Munger

I'm just trying to make images as accurately as possible off my nervous system as I can. — Francis Bacon

Tourism is the biggest industry in the world. — Martin Parr