Respect Your Mother Tongue Quotes & Sayings

It is not their quantative scarcity vis-a-vis the majority that makes minorities hapless but rather their qualitative similarity. As a member of a minority group, you can be as industrious as an ant, even hit the jackpot and acquire a considerable fortune, but someday, just because you presently and will always belong to the same community, you could in an instant find yourself on par with those of your community who have idled their lives away since birth. That is why the affluent among the minorities are never affluent enough; neither are their exceptional members ever sufficiently so. — Elif Shafak

I think Scotland has some great stories. — Billy Boyd

Because I have no sense of self. I have no personality, no brilliant color. I have nothing to offer. That's always been my problem. I feel like an empty vessel. I have a shape, I guess, as a container, but there's nothing inside. I just can't see myself as the right person for her. I think that the more time passes, and the more she knows about me, the more disappointed Sara will be, and the more she'll choose to distance herself from me. — Haruki Murakami

I was so bad with the food and alcohol in Nashville. If you saw me naked compared to what I looked like when I did Iron Man 2, when I was exercising every day - I'll get it back together, but I've never eaten so much fried food and white flour in my life, ever. — Gwyneth Paltrow

I like to make people look as good as they'd like to look, and with luck, a shade better. — Norman Parkinson

I was 16 before I met another passionate collector. One summer, I visited England; a new friend took me calling on his dotty, brilliant old aunt. She occupied a quaint house in Kent. Its walls were lined with glass-fronted cases full of what? Ancient shoe buckles. — Allan Gurganus

Beauty products always cheer me up and give me hope. If it makes you feel pretty, why not? — Salma Hayek

For me, writing is immortality. It is wisdom. It is never-ending. — Alecia Stone

I'm really a very fifties housewife. — Eva Longoria

Some things need to be broken. — P.C. Hodgell

War is 90% information. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment. — Dale Carnegie

I would rather be uncomfortable with the truth than to be lied to in comfort. That's just my nature. — Jesse Ventura

Internet: What do you want for your birthday?
Virtual Cole: to stay young forever
Cole texted me:
Actually I want you — Maggie Stiefvater

It is not an event; it is a piece of news. — Charles Maurice De Talleyrand