Chiang Ching-kuo Quotes & Sayings

Shrines are fascinating, especially when rarely opened. — E. M. Forster

I pulled him to me, planted my mouth over his, and kissed the shit out of him. It was one of the greatest and boldest moments of my life, right next to moving and tracking down my brother. — Jay Crownover

I needed people to deliver my feelings back to me in a form that was legible. Which is a superlative kind of empathy to seek, or to supply: an empathy that rearticulates more clearly what it's shown. — Leslie Jamison

I'm a fraidy cat. I play everything very safe in my life, so I think that's why I like characters that don't. — Jennifer Jason Leigh

Unless you can feel when the song is done
No other is sweet in its rhythm;
Unless you can feel when left by one
That all men else go with him. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

And he claims another victim." I cracked a grin. "Edwin, you're turning this
infirmary into a speakeasy. — Katherine McIntyre

Deciding what is being talked about is a kind of interpretive bet. — Umberto Eco

I started meeting the right people, like [producer] Dave [Okumu], who explained to me how songwriting is really simple - "just like shitting," he said. "You gotta let it all out." When he put it like that, however disgusting it is, it made a lot of sense to me. — Jessie Ware

I don't get the impression that most sources of media - like television and movies - are trying to get out a positive message, necessarily. My impression is they're trying to get a message out that promotes their personal opinion, position or belief and they're trying to do something that makes money. They want to turn a buck. — Max Lucado

the french ambassador to spain, meeting cervantes,congratulated him on the great success and reputation gained by his "don quixote"; whereupon the author whispered in his ear: "had it not been for the inquisition, i should have made my book much more entertaining. — Isaac D'Israeli

People choose to work more if they do it for free or if well-compensated but not if it is compensated with a little money. — Dan Ariely

I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn't good enough. I didn't know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid. — Al Pacino

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play. — Arnold J. Toynbee

The streets seemed to chafe the very air ... and lift its leaves hotly, brilliantly, on waves of that divine vitality which Clarissa loved. — Virginia Woolf