Makowiec Japonski Quotes & Sayings

You understand now ... how simple life becomes when things like mirrors are forgotten. — Daphne Du Maurier

The Mexicans descend from the Aztecs; the Peruvians descend from the Incas; the Argentineans descend from the boats. — Carlos Fuentes

Ultimately, China may use force to push for unification with Taiwan, a scenario we all must work to prevent. — Michael K. Simpson

my brother's cognac and tobacco talk — Charles Dickens

ThreadLocal, which allows you to associate a per-thread value with a value-holding object. Thread-Local provides get and set accessormethods that maintain a separate copy of the value for each thread that uses it, so a get returns the most recent value passed to set from the currently executing thread. Thread-local variables are often used to prevent sharing in designs based on mutable Singletons or global variables. For example, a single-threaded application might maintain a global database connection that is initialized at startup to avoid having to pass a Connection to every method. Since JDBC connections may not be thread-safe, a multithreaded application that uses a global connection without additional coordination is not thread-safe either. By using a ThreadLocal to store the JDBC connection, as in ConnectionHolder in Listing 3.10, each thread will have its own connection. Listing — Brian Goetz

My current mantra is that sometimes we need teachers in our lives. I never had that in my life, parents and stuff like that; I tried to stay on the outside of them or anybody that had that kind of influence. — Taylor Dayne

In yet another paradox, bulimia nervosa serves as both an expression of feelings and a defense against experiencing feelings, particularly shame, anger, loneliness, sadness, envy, and guilt. A person with bulimia nervosa fear, whether consciously or unconsciously, that painful feelings would be unbearable, even annihilating. — Sheila M. Reindl

I don't care what other people think. I don't think it matters. — John Malkovich

It is sinful for students to badmouth their teachers and sinful for teachers to mislead their students. — Igor Babailov

Time needs time to be measurable. — David Mitchell

There's no commodity we can take with us. There is only our lives, whether we live them wisely or whether we live them in ignorance. And this is everything. — Sharon Salzberg

Researcher Richard Wiseman, in his article "The Luck Factor," says that if you are an apple picker and you keep coming back to the same trees every day, eventually you're going to run out of fruit. — Shawn Achor

Messi is probably the best player of the last 20 years. — Ryan Giggs

The fact of the matter is, if you're not putting out stuff that people are feeling, then your record label doesn't mean a goddamn thing. — El-P

Normally, you cast a pilot, and you have to make compromises about being political about who you cast. — Jill Soloway