Phunuvietnam Quotes & Sayings

Oh dear! A drunken infidel weaver! said Mr. Hale to himself. — Elizabeth Gaskell

It is better to resist oppression by violent means than to submit, but it is best of all to resist by nonviolent means. — Mahatma Gandhi

You always try to work for your audience, to entertain them, but that being said, obviously, within the studio system you feel the sense of responsibility to the bank. — Phillip Noyce

You broke the Man Code, dude. 'No man shall knowingly and with malice aforethought kick another man in the nuts.'"
"Okay, so I kicked him in the nuts. The little fucker was fleeing the scene of a crime where he'd pointed a weapon at my buddies."
[from short story "Beer Run" at the end of Skin Deep] — Pamela Clare

Their indifference towards Jane when not immediately before them restored Elizabeth to the enjoyment of all her former dislike. — Jane Austen

He invented stories so fantastic she had to believe. Of cours, she was only a child, still removing the dust from her first death. What else could she do? And he was already accumulating the dust of his second death. What else could he do? — Jonathan Safran Foer

A criminal will never forgive you for preventing them from committing the crime that is really in their heart. — Norman Mailer

Finally she said, "When I grow up, I'm going to live out here. I'll probably be a Miss Somebody, too ... "
Don't grow up," I told her. "It only gets more confusing. — Julianna Baggott

I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too. — Ulrich Beck

I inhale hope with every breath I take. — Sharon Kay Penman

I usually have Kafka biography in my bathroom. It's a book I can open at random and feel interested in immediately. It's really funny. With this book, since I'm opening it at random and immediately interested, I don't feel the need to read more than I want to read, in that there's not, like, a plot that leads me along. So I can stop whenever. — Tao Lin