Korean Popular Culture Quotes & Sayings

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

Cupboard. The strange little key, which had been his great-grandmother's, — Lynne Reid Banks

It seems Korean women are enjoying a passive and fragile status, intoxicated by appearance. Not only feminism, but any serious discourse ends up being swept away by popular culture in Korea. — Kim Hyesoon

My mind is always racing, and always going and always working, and it's a gift and a curse. — Sean Combs

They see that who they are is the silence in which sound is happening, the spaciousness in which movement occurs. This kind of recognition, whether fleeting or abiding, is called an awakening. — Arjuna Ardagh

No one is a virgin ... life fucks everyone! — Waqar Masood

I guess actors are very sensitive people. We're porous. — Zoe Lister-Jones

Gideon," she said evenly, inclining her head in sparse respect. "What brings you to my chambers so close to dawn?"
The riveting male before her remained silent, his silver eyes flicking over her slowly. Her heart nearly stopped with her sudden fear, and immediately she threw up every mental and physical barrier she could to prevent an unwelcome scan and analysis of her health.
"I would not scan you without your permission, Magdelegna. Body Demons who become healers have codes of ethics the same as any others."
"Funny," she remarked, "I would have thought you to believe yourself above such a trivial matter as permission. — Jacquelyn Frank

Successful people are simply those with successful habits. — Brian Tracy

[Hillary Clinton] and I are fine. Are we going to be besties for the rest of our lives? No. — Claire McCaskill

If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it. — Olin Miller

Never obliterate a man unthinkingly, the way an entire fief might do it through some due process of law. Always do it for an overriding purpose - and know your purpose! — Frank Herbert

There was no confusion of our bodies. I knew which arm was his and which mine, and which leg, and which shoulder. I did not lose track and kiss my own arm, or whatever came near my mouth. THe smallest motion did not immediately lead to another motion. It was not endless, I did not go more and more deeply into my body and his body as though to go as far as possible from my mind, and his mind, so conscious, so unrelenting. It did not end while it was still in the middle. — Lydia Davis

Korean feminism has been swept away by popular culture. It became a sort of old-fashioned trend or a joke. — Kim Hyesoon

I am not comfortable with abstract writing, stories that look like essays: you have to see, I need to see. — Don DeLillo