Chungliang Shieh Quotes & Sayings

I have no new voices - they've all been used. — Hank Azaria

If I were in charge of the government, I would index the minimum wage to inflation, so that way, everybody knows what they can count on. — Fred DeLuca

I've always wanted to be a communicator of ideas through music. Today, I wanna be the most effective musical communicator of social change I could be, so I try to find different ways to do it and I'm always challenging myself to find new things, learn new instruments. But I always try to find in my heart, what it is I really want to say with words. — Michael Franti

No religion with a universal message ... under one flag can even momentarily entertain the idea of employing force to spread its message. Swords can win territories, but not hearts. Force can bend heads, but not minds. — Mirza Tahir Ahmad

Then throughout the day, mankind played with grenades...Cold hearted world! — Pantera

However, the real beauty is not in the words themselves, but in the listener that has the power to understand them. — Luis Marques

No one has ever played these endgames with such elegant ease as Capablanca. — Richard Reti

But no: he was empty, he was confronted by a vast anger, a desperate anger, he saw it and could almost have touched it. But it was inert - if it were to live and find expression and suffer, he must lend it his own body. It was other people's anger. "Swine!" He clenched his fists, he strode along, but nothing came, the anger remained external to himself. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Writing begins in the body, it is the music of the body, and even if the words have meaning, can sometimes have meaning, the music of the words is where the meanings begin ... Writing as a lesser form of dance. — Paul Auster

she would fill the silence with her own sweet voice. — Chas Newkey-Burden

Women continue receiving less salary for the same kind of job. Women have a higher unemployment rate in our country. When you analyze the composition of poverty, you will find that most of the families in poverty are being run by a woman. — Laura Chinchilla

I am what I am and that's all that I am and if I'm supposed to be somebody else, why do I look like me? — Benjamin Franklin

I was pretty sure I would never have to worry about finding the right guy. I thought it would happen for me the way it happened for my parents and for my grandparents. They got to the right age, they found the right person, they got married, they had kids. — Rainbow Rowell