Pham Quotes & Sayings

Everybody draws when they are little. — Keith Haring

Pham Nuwen plunked himself down, stretching indolently. — Vernor Vinge

I realized that there was no point in denying oneself a pleasure because it was denied another, in refusing to allow oneself to be happy because someone else was unhappy. — Stefan Zweig

When it's all over, you'll realize that the answer is already within you. — Andrew X. Pham

If you don't handle [exceptions], we shut your application down. That dramatically increases the reliability of the system. — Anders Hejlsberg

Just promise to talk to me ... I can help you with that baggage, you know. What was I saying? I had never dealt with anyone's baggage! I didn't even know what it was! — A Meredith Walters

In 1850, four-fifths of New York's eleven thousand teachers were women, yet two-thirds of the state's $800,000 in teacher salaries was paid to men. It was not unusual for male teachers to earn twice as much as their female coworkers. — Dana Goldstein

God intentionally allows you to go through painful experiences to equip you for ministry to others. — Rick Warren

Radio listeners are voyeurs: lurking, invisible, eavesdropping. — Paul Fleischman

Vietnamese are very similar to the Chinese. They just can't sit on gold bars underneath their beds. Eventually, they will pull out their gold bars and invest. — Pham Nhat Vuong

We want to bring better products to Vietnam. My hope is through changes in lifestyle and the products we consume, it will affect the people and change the way they are thinking. — Pham Nhat Vuong

Make your life your art. It doesn't have to be that you're an artist. I know I talk about art a lot, but I mean a very broad thing with that. You could be a veterinarian, that's your art. Find your art; find your thing you love. — Gerard Way

Attacking is better than defending. — Pham Nhat Vuong

I am deathless, I am the eternal Lord For I have spread the seed of the Word. — Abolqasem Ferdowsi

Well, what do you know," Pham said. "Butterflies in jackboots. — Vernor Vinge

Fate is an obligation I don't understand
the reasons that random beast passed over her deserving soul in favor of mine. — Andrew X. Pham

The perfection of intention. In the end, it is all that matters. — Andrew X. Pham

Cleaning up with children around is like shoveling during a blizzard — Margaret Culkin Banning

What the hell does liberty mean anyhow? It's just a word like house or table or any other word. Only it's a special kind of word. A guy says house and he can point to a house to prove it. But a guy says come on let's fight for liberty and he can't show you liberty. He can't prove the thing he is talking about so how in the hell can he be telling you to fight for it? — Dalton Trumbo

Nobody gives way to anybody. Everyone just angles, points, dives directly toward his destination, pretending it is an all-or-nothing gamble. People glare at one another and fight for maneuvering space. All parties are equally determined to get the right-of-way
insist on it. They swerve away at the last possible moment, giving scant inches to spare. The victor goes forwards, no time for a victory grin, already engaging in another contest of will. Saigon traffic is Vietnamese life, a continuous charade of posturing, bluffing, fast moves, tenacity and surrenders. — Andrew X. Pham

I began to understand that the most worthwhile obsession is an obsession that is actually independent of the object of fixation. The object is only borrowed as a pretext, a means, an environment, through which or in which the obsessed person can project his own eternal and essential hunger, thus fulfilling the requirements of death
the dissolution of the ego for something, anything, that exists independently outside of one's self. Perhaps that obsession should be controlled. At some point the most mundane catalyst, a skirt or fallen leaf, is enough to provoke a series of captivating chain reactions, while at another time much more important objects will inspire only an absurd indifference. — Pham Thi Hoai

To a reporter after Ray was pounded by Edmonton's Georges Laraque: What are you, the fight doctor now or something? You've never been in a fight in your life, so what are you talking about? — Rob Ray

Too many things have changed. Too much time has passed. I'm different now, a man with a pocketful of unconnected but terribly vivid memories. I was looking to dredge up what I'd long forgotten. Most of all, I am wishing for something to fasten all these gems, maybe something to hold them in a continuity that I can comprehend. — Andrew X. Pham

I just wasn't cut out to be a Chinese Tiger Mom. I'm more of an Irish Setter Dad. — P. J. O'Rourke