Apasiri Chantrasmi Quotes & Sayings

That perfect tranquility of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library. — Aphra Behn

And we should be a welcoming nation. Our identity is not based on race or ethnicity, it's based on a set of shared values. That's American citizenship. — Jeb Bush

I first saw the island of Noirmoutier when I was two weeks old. I think it's probably safe to say that I didn't fully appreciate it at the time; but I grew to love it as year after year I spent holidays there at my grandparents' cottage. — Joanne Harris

You're such a cheater. The best wood in your golf bag is your pencil! — Rex Pickett

It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight. — Jacki Weaver

The personality of man is not an apple that has to be polished, but a banana that has to be peeled. And the reason we remain so far from one another, the reason we neither communicate nor interact in any real way, is that most of us spend our lives in polishing rather than peeling... Almost everything in modern life is devoted to the polishing process, and little to the peeling process. It is the surface personality that we work on - the appearance, the clothes, the manners, the geniality. In short, the salesmanship: We are selling the package, not the product. — Sydney J. Harris

Being a kid myself, I loved playing and I loved playing with words, and making up things and riddles and songs and not afraid of being silly in public. — Malachy McCourt

[I began to unload] the pyramid of honors, civic and literary, which had been heaped on me by the headlong process of rewarding a popular success. One day, I sat down and wrote a wholesale lot of letters of resignation. When I finished, I didn't belong to a single authors club or patriotic society. I was myself again, whatever that was. — Mary Antin

Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented. — Harold S. Geneen

We obviously can't compete with the big clubs trying to sign world class stars, but we've already identified some very good players and we'll see what happens. — Paul Jewell

It's not the disability that defines you; it's how you deal with the challenges the disability presents you with. — Jim Abbott