Ba Thien Kim Quotes & Sayings

Perhaps it was that I wanted to see what I had learned, what I had read, what I had imagined, that I would never be able to see the city of London without seeing it through the overarching scrim of every description of it I had read before. When I turn the corner into a small, quiet, leafy square, am I really seeing it fresh, or am I both looking and remembering? [ ... ]
This is both the beauty and excitement of London, and its cross to bear, too. There is a tendency for visitors to turn the place into a theme park, the Disney World of social class, innate dignity, crooked streets, and grand houses, with a cavalcade of monarchs as varied and cartoony as Mickey Mouse, Snow White, and, at least in the opinion of various Briths broadhseets, Goofy.
They come, not to see what London is, or even what it was, but to confirm a kind of picture-postcard view of both, all red telephone kiosks and fog-wreathed alleyways. — Anna Quindlen

I married somebody who is very secure. He's been in my corner from the time we met, and we grew in this together. — Susan Lucci

Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star. — Henry David Thoreau

Maybe when I'd wrecked I had hit my head. Could that be it? Did I have a brain injury? Was I hallucinating? I didn't believe that. — A.B. Shepherd

Power was attractive for a reason. — Kit Rocha

Talent is universal, opportunity is not. — Vinay Singh

Nothing could eclipse the stain of his dirty, mortal mediocrity. — Madeline Miller

Every year is different. I'm not getting any younger trying to keep it going. It's always a challenge. It's like a boxer going into a ring. You never can tell what's going to work and what's not going to work until you're in action and everything is going on around you. It's very intense and always a challenge and always a thrill. — Hank Williams III

If I never learned from my mistakes, I would never learn at all — Shane Porteous

Problems have solutions. — Stevie Wonder