Jancu Quotes & Sayings

To make ourselves invisible to creditors or to the envious, and even to our own worries, we can take advantage here on earth of a great democratic institution-in fact, democracy's only success-the night. — Jean Giraudoux

If you are in a position where a little mistake results in death, you don't have to worry about the big mistakes! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Despite a campaign that was based on a very powerful promise of transparency, President Obama, and again in my view quite correctly, has used the state secrets argument in a variety of courts, as much as President Bush. — Michael Hayden

What was a zero anyway? A zero signified nothing, all it did was tell you nothing about nothing. Still, wasn't zero also something meaningful, a number in and of itself? In jianpu notation, zero indicated a caesura, a pause or rest of indeterminate length. Did time that went uncounted, unrecorded, still qualify as time? If zero was both everything and nothing, did an empty life have exactly the same weight as a full life? Was zero like the desert, both finite and infinite? — Madeleine Thien

Love has its own communication. It's the language of the heart, while it has never been transcribed, has no alphabet, and can't be heard or spoken by voice, it is used by every human on the planet. It is written on our souls, scripted by the finger of God, and we can hear, understand, and speak it with perfection long before we open our eyes for the first time. — Charles Martin

No one on earth can hurt you, unless you accept the hurt in your own mind ... The problem is not other people; it is your reaction. — Vernon Howard

I remain convinced that I can be a true universalist only when I am a better Jew. — Theodore Bikel

I wrote a piece of software in 1998 that created fictional weather. — Daniel Suarez

Next morning I finally arrived at the place. The two sisters had already left for work, but the landlady of the pension admitted me into their room. I fell asleep with exhaustion. By late afternoon, when they arrived, they were more shocked than elated about my presence. They took me within an hour to a coffee house, on Lipscani Street, where many Czernowitzers congregated. Sure enough, I met Jancu, the uncle of my former student Vera. He immediately took me with my belongings, to his family, to his parents. They were the warmest, friendliest people imaginable. Vera's mother was happy, because now, she thought, Vera would pass the grade, with my help. — Pearl Fichman

Plus he was naturally lucky at cards. As Mam had always said, lucky at cards, or lucky at life. One or the other. Not both. — Cinda Williams Chima

I don't spend a lot of my time in the locker room. That's my least favourite place in the world. — Maria Sharapova

Anna's eyes soften, and the stubborn tears begin to recede. The way she stands, the way she breathes, I know she wants to come closer. New knowledge fills up the air between us and neither of us wants to breathe it in. — Kendare Blake

The Moon is our local port opening to the universe; in the future, it's through that port we will sail our ships to the coastless oceans. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

How could anyone get anything important done if they didn't plan to get anything important done? You couldn't leave the important things in life to accident. — Anonymous

We're supposed to speak from the heart in what we wear. We have to find capsule wardrobes. — Caitlin Moran

Literature interprets the world, but it's also shaped by that world, and we're living through one of the greatest economic and technological transformations since
well, since the early 18th century. The novel won't stay the same: it has always been exquisitely sensitive to newness, hence the name. It's about to renew itself again, into something cheaper, wilder, trashier, more democratic and more deliriously fertile than ever. — Lev Grossman