Khoung Quotes & Sayings

She wanted to stay out there, to hang on her branch in the world until the cold had burned down to her bones. She could leave her whitened bones scattered on the snow and depart like light. Whitened bones. A whited sepulcher. — Adam Foulds

I was trouble - and always in trouble. Aged eight I still couldn't read. In fact, I was dyslexic and short-sighted. Despite sitting at the front of the class, I couldn't read the blackboard. Only after a couple of terms did anyone think to have my eyes tested. Even when I could see, the letters and numbers made no sense at all. — Richard Branson

Maturity means learning the value of that which is hard-earned. — Philip Toshio Sudo

I want to chase the butterflies. — Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

If you are not like everybody else, then you are abnormal, if you are abnormal , then you are sick. These three categories, not being like everybody else, not being normal and being sick are in fact very different but have been reduced to the same thing — Michel Foucault

There is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically. Our wanting to reserve equal powers of reason as some universal heritage of humanity will not be enough to make it so. — James D. Watson

I tried not to think about my life. I did not have any good solid plans for it long-term - no bad plans either, no plans at all - and the lostness of that, compared with the clear ambitions of my friends (marriage, children, law school), sometimes shamed me. Other times in my mind I defended such a condition as morally and intellectually superior - my life was open and ready and free - but that did not make it less lonely. — Lorrie Moore

Truth, for its own sake, had never been a virtue with the Roman clergy. — Charles Kingsley

You can delegate authority, but you cannot delegate responsibility. — Byron Dorgan

Offset and Skillfeed are examples of products launched in 2013 that have expanded our opportunity with both large enterprises and across new content types. — Jon Oringer

I would say that the energy on set is always the energy of the director because he's the boss. — Stephanie Sigman

There's no such thing as The Method. The term 'method-acting' is so much nonsense. There are many methods, many techniques. — Susan Strasberg

There's a reason why people who've had bad relationships with their parents listen to angry stuff. — Chris Martin

Prayer is the hardest thing. And no one congratulates you for doing it because no one knows you're doing it, and if things turn out well they likely won't thank God in any case. But I have a feeling that the hardest thing is what we all better be doing now, and that it's not only the best answer but the only one. — Peggy Noonan