Manthana Khamvongsa Quotes & Sayings

Not in sorrow freely is never to open the bosom to the sweets of the sunshine. — William Gilmore Simms

In such an environment, I was able to study things that could be of immediate usefulness to the world. That learning experience undoubtedly served me well when I eventually entered the work force. — Koichi Tanaka

Most things take more time than we believe they will. But, now, what about love? Will love take more time than you think?" "I don't know anything about love." "That is true," she agreed. "Yet, every mile you travel on this journey is for this thing you don't know anything about." Homer — Homer Hickam

Thank you for that, boy genius! Where did you graduate from? Hogwarts School for the Mentally Unbalanced? — Leia Shaw

Good movies make you care, make you believe in possibilities again. — Pauline Kael

One of the ways the telegraph changed us as humans was it gave us a new sense of what time it is. It gave us an understanding of simultaneity. It gave us the ability to synchronize clocks from one place to another. It made it possible for the world to have standard time and time zones and then Daylight Savings Time and then after that jetlag. All of that is due to the telegraph because, before that, the time was whatever it was wherever you were. — James Gleick

When a man knows how to live amid danger, he is not afraid to die. When he is not afraid to die, he is, strangely, free to live. — William O. Douglas

And Bobby was working on a new theory of personal deportment; he didn't quite have the whole thing yet, but part of it involved the idea that people who were genuinely dangerous might not need to exhibit the fact at all, and that the ability to conceal a threat made them even more dangerous. — William Gibson

A beautiful problem is no joke! — Marvin Knopp

The text you write must prove to me that it desires me. This proof exists: it is writing. Writing is: the science of the various blisses of language, its Kama Sutra (this science has but one treatise: writing itself). — Roland Barthes

Astronomers do not commonly use Venereal, in favor of the less contagious-sounding Venutian. Blame the medical community, who snatched the word long before astronomers had any good use for it. I suppose you can't blame the doctors. Venus is the goddess of beauty and love, so she ought to be the goddess of its medical consequences. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

I've given parties that have made Indian rajahs green with envy. I've had prima donnas break $10,000 engagements to come to my smallest dinners. When you were still playing button back in Ohio, I entertained on a cruising trip that was so much fun that I had to sink my yacht to make my guests go home. — F Scott Fitzgerald

The bad man is continually at war with, and in opposition to, himself. — Aristotle.

Psychologically, it's what I love to be. Tearing apart a person from the inside out. — Jim Carrey

I'm not afraid of dying I'm afraid of not trying — Jay-Z