Jinpan Quotes & Sayings

Once again we find ourselves enmeshed in the Holiday Season, that very special time of year when we join with our loved ones in sharing centuries-old traditions such as trying to find a parking space at the mall. We traditionally do this in my family by driving around the parking lot until we see a shopper emerge from the mall, then we follow her, in very much the same spirit as the Three Wise Men, who 2,000 years ago followed a star, week after week, until it led them to a parking space. — Dave Barry

The role of my agent has just been to get me in the room. If I can get in the room - say the character is just a charming man who lives next door - then I'll walk in there and be as charming as I can and they will think to themselves, 'I don't see why we can't cast him.' — Idris Elba

A man of genuine literary genius, since he possesses a temperament whose susceptibilities are of wider area than those of any other, is inevitably of all people the one most variously affected by his surroundings. And it is he, in consequence, who of all people most faithfully and compactly exhibits the impress of his times and his times' tendencies, not merely in his writings where it conceivably might be just predetermined affectation but in his personality. — James Branch Cabell

This movie came as a reaction to reality. I realized that I do not know that 80 of the population that lives poor in my city. I wanted to make a social experiment putting in the same car several people from different social classes, just to see what would happen. — Jonathan Jakubowicz

Of everything
I have ever endured,

Y
O
U

are
My Favourite Tragedy. — Meraaqi

Obviously this is the next frontier - once you've mastered grilling, smoking is what you're going to want to do. — Steven Raichlen

If you set up your life so that the people you need you, that's ok. If you set up your life so that you don't need anyone - then you need to be prepared for the experience of aloneness. — Art Hochberg

Aye, beg me for mercy, Sassenach. Ye shallna have it, though; not yet. — Diana Gabaldon

The history of science is rich in example of the fruitfulness of bringing two sets of techniques, two sets of ideas, developed in separate contexts for the pursuit of new truth, into touch with one another. — J. Robert Oppenheimer

Please God, please God, can you please tell me why? I ask this of you, yet in my heart, I know. — Rita Leganski

People used to have time to live and enjoy themselves, but there is no time anymore for anything but work, work, work. — Laura Ingalls Wilder

I'm not a member of an organized party. I'm a Democrat. — Will Rogers

Our hearts are light and gay because now its happening, we're starting, we're travelling again. — Martha Gellhorn

Archaeology is not only the hand maid of history, it is also the conservator of art. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton