Papierz Jan Quotes & Sayings

Change is the process by which the future invades our lives. — Alvin Toffler

The failure to be perfect does not mean you are not a success; it is giving your best that helps you to understand the joy of receiving. — Fran Tarkenton

These same ABCs couldn't speak Chinese and didn't care---but you don't have shit without your native tongue. African slaves were forced by threat of physical punishment to abandon their native languages, but a lot of us just gave ours up with a shrug---these Uncle Chans convinced us to assimilate, shut the fuck up, and play the part. What they didn't understand is that after your have the money and degrees, you can't buy your identity back. I wasn't worried about degrees, but I cared about my roots. Even if I hated what it meant to be an Asian in t he American wilderness, i respected the Chinese home I was raised in. Usually I wasn't so vocal about Asian identity, but without my parents around, I felt a sudden duty to say something myself. It's funny how annoying I thought my mom was, but as soon as she wasn't around, i carried the torch for her. — Eddie Huang

This means I must pay close attention to the writing, but equally so to the scientific background - which sometimes means doing fairly involved calculations. — Stanley Schmidt

If you will help run our government in the American way, then there will never be any danger of our government running America in the wrong way. — Omar N. Bradley

We're subject to the same forces of capitalism that have built the entire American economy. Strong returns induce more capital flow, which creates more competitors, and you have to evolve and get better, or you die. — Kenneth C. Griffin

I really think that reading a whole script is kind of prying and neurotic, don't you? — Tom Baker

Your voice
in this being unable to move away
from my gaze
things dispossess me
make of me a ship on a river of stones
if your voice is not
rain alone in my feverish silence
you unbind my eyes
and please
may you never stop
speaking
ever — Alejandra Pizarnik

A garden is a private world or it is nothing. — Eleanor Perenyi

Yes," said Queen Lucy. "In our world too, a stable once had something inside it that was bigger than our whole world. — C.S. Lewis

Here's what we know about Santa. He sees you when you're sleeping. He knows when you're awake. He knows if you've been bad or good. I think he's with the NSA. — David Letterman

No man is defeated without some resentment which will be continued with obstinacy while he believes himself in the right, and asserted with bitterness, if even to his own conscience he is detected in the wrong. — Samuel Johnson