Putonghua Translation Quotes & Sayings

I had to get good grades and do well in school - my mother was an assistant principal and my father was a teacher - and they took this very seriously. — Roz Chast

In the World War nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading. — J. F. C. Fuller

Modern capitalism, organising the reduction of all social life to a spectacle, cannot offer any spectacle other than that of our own alienation. — Attila Kotanyi

When I was fifteen years old, the only distinction in music my friends and I made was [that] there's music made by people with short hair and music made by people with long hair. — Moby

I don't want her in my car." says Jenna.
I don't want her in my life." says Michael.
I hope she chokes on her fucking Frappuccino." says Akello. — Deb Caletti

Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary. — Anne Carson

[She] felt as if she were both a stranger to herself and more herself than she'd ever been. — Susan Minot

When you're up to your ass in alligators, you forget about cleaning the swamp. — Robert DeBard

My husband and I are loyal to our community and very approachable, even though we're kind of mainstream. — Nicole Ari Parker

If youth was sold in a bottle of hair dye, we would all get in line. — Jan Rogers

When people, women included, hear that you are writing, they assume that it is simply a hobby to fill in the time between doing the washing-up and the ironing. It couldn't possibly be a profession. — Rachel Billington

I cannot let the fear of the past color the future. — Julie Kagawa