Saleve Quotes & Sayings

China was not at all what I expected it to be. I had an image of China as a very quaint and mysterious and peaceful place. Well, it's quaint and mysterious in some respects, but not in the ways I had thought. The people are mysterious. They don't often tell you what they feel. — Rosemary Mahoney

The music teacher came twice a week to bridge the awful gap between Dorothy and Chopin. — George Ade

Settle down and be Good forever. Find the hardest things to accept in me, and reconcile what I am with what I hope to be. — Jen Wang

To build a strong team we need to become strong leaders first. — Sunday Adelaja

So, fortune cookies: invented by the Japanese, popularized by the Chinese, but ultimately consumed by Americans. They are more American than anything else. — Jennifer Lee

How can we know that we have talent until our words or the manner in which we speak them moves someone? — James Grissom

I think we have a number of young people - like yourself - who want to make a difference. I'm not sure the numbers are as large because I think the burden of getting elected to public office at the national level has become astronomically expensive. — Birch Bayh

When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee. — Jackie Chan

The shortest route isn't always the fastest. — Sandra Golden

At the Saleve, the stove is drawing badly. This and the stale tobacco, rough wine and a perpetual acrid pungency (disinfectant or vomit, or both) are almost intolerable. But there's that tingling you've only got to register once: within two seconds it gets you at the back of your throat, and then immediately diffuses like a drop of oil. A sudden and surprising sweetness. Breathe in through your mouth, out through your nose. That's it. You're hooked.

Someone here is smoking hashish. — Jacques Yonnet

I was learning the secrets of life: that you could become the woman you'd dared to dream of being, but to do so you were going to have to fall in love with your own crazy, ruined self. — Anne Lamott

If you live in a ghetto and really want not to just change your life and your family's life but change your ghetto's life, make your ghetto a good neighbourhood, learn science; try to be like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. — Will.i.am

Any way, death is so final, isn't it?
"Is it?" asked Richard.
"Sometimes," said the marquis de Carabas. And they went down. — Neil Gaiman

President [Barack]Obama benefits from the shared experience and wisdom of top national security and foreign policy advisers, many of them career professionals. — Chris Matthews