Asian American Pacific Islander Quotes & Sayings

An idea is like a play. It needs a good producer and a good promoter even if it is a masterpiece. Otherwise the play may never open; or it may open but, for a lack of an audience, close after a week. Similarly, an idea will not move from the fringes to the mainstream simply because it is good; it must be skillfully marketed before it will actually shift people's perceptions and behavior. — David

As a Chinese American legislator, I applaud the RNC's Growth and Opportunity Project. Engaging Asian American and Pacific Islander communities about Republican principles is a worthwhile effort. I thank Chairman Priebus and Co-Chairman Day for making this a priority. We need to ensure our message of growth and opportunity is being heard in all communities throughout this nation, and I am proud to be a part of this effort. — Kimberly Yee

The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts -the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria -are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy. — Edward Dahlberg

He showed his love and determination by burning her BMW and strangling her cat, then — David Morrell

Men don't get cellulite. God might just be a man. — Rita Rudner

So far as it goes, a small thing may give analogy of great things, and show the tracks of knowledge. — Titus Lucretius Carus

A historian is interested in the past because he is interested in life ... a deeply felt need to assure the continuity of human life and discover its meaning, even if the goal is never fully realized. — Ralph Davis

Hope is the worst of evils because it protracts torment." "Your — Irvin D. Yalom

Nowadays, there's a lot more that comes before music, that I need to take care of before I can sit down and play, and be a contributing member of a band or society. I have to take care of myself and my recovery, and then my family, and then my music. — Patty Schemel

In February 1953, I was making a second picture with Jeff Chandler, one called War Arrow . Jeff was a real sweetheart, but acting with him was like acting with a broomstick. — Maureen O'Hara