Euny Quotes & Sayings

Basically, Koreans are the Marlboro Men of Asia. — Euny Hong

Courage is not a feeling. Courage is an action. — Liz Tolsma

You may have an iPhone, for example, but its microchips are made by Apple's biggest competitor - the Korean electronics company Samsung. — Euny Hong

My mother and father, with my newborn brother and me in the backseat of the 1938 Ford sedan that would be our family car for the next decade, moved to that hastily constructed Army ammunition depot called Igloo, on the alkaline and sagebrush landscape of far southwestern South Dakota. I was three years old. — Tom Brokaw

These kinds of mini-enterprises...prolonged the precious, Elysian period of childhood in a way I did not see in the US, where kids started hanging out at the mall and acted like teeny boppers from age 9 or 10. — Euny Hong

Things change in different countries as people grow, and as generations change. — Shannon Elizabeth

We all go back to our roots. My father went to the central west, went to Ilfracombe in 1919. He was the manager of the wool scour there. And, Ilfracombe was right at the heart of Australia's great wool industry, and my mother was a teacher at Winton. — Quentin Bryce

Since I stopped writing, I read more than ever. Other people's words, not my own
my words are gone. — Jennifer Niven

First-worlders have the luxury of not having to think about waste elimination very much. But for a third-worlder, poop is a big preoccupation. — Euny Hong

Poirot said "you will find,M.le docteur,if you have much to do with cases of this kind,that they all resemble each other in one thing."
"what is that?" I asked curiously
"everyone concerned in them has something to hide — Agatha Christie

Irony is that special privilege of wealthy nations; — Euny Hong

Dragnets that scoop up information indiscriminately about everyone in their path used to be rare; police — Julia Angwin

Create a trophy room in your heart. Each time you experience a victory, place a memory on the shelf. Before you face a challenge, take a quick tour of God's accomplishments. Look at all the paychecks he has provided, all the blessings he has given, all the prayers he had answered. Imitate the shepherd boy David. Before he fought Goliath, the giant, he remembered how God had helped him kill a lion and a bear (1 Samuel 17:34-36). He faced his future by revisiting the past. — Max Lucado

If you're not fascinated by Korea yet, you damn well should be. The most innovative country on earth deserves a hilarious and poignant account on the order of Euny Hong's The Birth of Korean Cool. Her phat beats got Gangnam Style and then some. — Gary Shteyngart

If Korea were a person, it would be diagnosed as a neurotic, with both an inferiority and a superiority complex. — Euny Hong

The Ten Commandments are the greatest list of instructions ever devised for creating a good society. But such a society cannot be created or maintained if it is not based on truth. — Dennis Prager

The teachers never explained what this debt was all about, but we knew it was an embarrassment on the level of a national bedwetting. — Euny Hong

Making babies is the easiest part of marriage; raising them well, the most difficult. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I would like to thank everyone who supported me to be fit for the Euros. I had some fitness problems before the tournament, but I am here now! — Andriy Shevchenko