Javanese People Quotes & Sayings

New York City vagrant:
"What sort of 'nese are you people? Are you Chinese, or Japanese, or Javanese?"
Kakuzo Okakura responds:
"We are Japanese gentleman. But what sort of 'key are you? Are you a Yankee, or a donkey, or a monkey? — Okakura Kakuzo

Yes, she had changed her mind after sixty years and she would like to see George. I want you to find George. Find him and be sure to tell him I forgot him. I want him to know I had my husband just the same and my children and my house like any other woman. A good house too and a good husband that I loved and fine children out of him. Better than I had hoped for even. Tell him I was given back everything he took away and more. Oh, no, oh, God, no, there was something else besides the house and the man and the children. Oh, surely they were not all? What was it? Something not given back... Her breath crowded down under her ribs and grew into a monstrous frightening shape with cutting edges; it bored up into her head, and the agony was unbelievable: Yes, John, get the Doctor now, no more talk, the time has come. — Katherine Anne Porter

The inference is, that God has restated the superiority of the West. God always does like that when a thousand white people surround one dark one. Dark people are always "bad" when they do not admit the Divine Plan like that. A certain Javanese man who sticks up for Indonesian Independence is very lowdown by the papers, and suspected of being a Japanese puppet. — Zora Neale Hurston

I don't want people who want to dance, I want people who have to dance. — George Balanchine

I've just taken the decision that I'm going to now go full time back into the theater. — Trevor Nunn

You're not really grown until you've lost your heroes. — Daniel H. Wilson

You can sit around and have a broken heart any old time. Rock stardom happens only once in a lifetime. — Jen Sincero

The world was not how you wanted it to be. The world was how it was. — Michael Crichton

As a culture moves from orality to writing to printing to televising, its ideas of truth move with it. — Neil Postman

See the thing about artists is that they tell stories. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

Talking doesn't help everybody. "Not that you'd know." Yeah. Not that I'd know. — Benjamin Alire Saenz