Subho Ashtami Quotes & Sayings

When the Soviet Union launched Sputnik in 1957, my parents, like the rest of America, were terrified. The Soviets had nuclear weapons and now were ahead of us in space. So my parents marched me and Owen into our living room, sat us down, and said, " You boys are going to study math and Science so we can beat the Soviets!"
I thought that was a lot of pressure to put on a six-year old. But own and I were obedient sons, so we studied math and science. And we were good at it.. Owen was the first in our family to go to college. He went to MIT, graduating with a degree in physics, and then became a photographer.
I went to Harvard, and became a comedian. My poor parents.
But we still beat the Soviets. You're welcome. — Al Franken

Some of the things people have said about me, well, they're unbelievable. — Christina Hendricks

Keep us little and unknown, prized and loved by God alone. — D.L. Moody

Westerners prefer sex toys so they can avoid playing mind games with each other. Conditioned by capitalism, they cannot share anything. They must hoard everything from their sins to their thoughts to their genitals. The sexual situation in the West is sorrowful nowadays, and that's why a country like Vietnam is the answer. — Linh Dinh

Keep track of your soul, Madison. Never compromise. Or you'll live the rest of your life regretting it--until it consumes you. — B.J. Kurtz

As you begin to look deeply into the mystery of your own evolution, in place of good and evil you will find only stories, finished or unfinished. — Eric Micha'el Leventhal

He watched the eternity of the sky. The dark was restful, but the vastness was cold and made you draw something close to you. — Elmore Leonard

While the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space,
the poet feels everything that happens in one point of time. — Vladimir Nabokov

I am a disciple of the philosopher Dionysus, and I would prefer to be even a satyr than a saint. — Friedrich Nietzsche

When Hiro first saw this place, ten years ago, the monorail hadn't been written yet; he and his buddies had to write car and motorcycle software in order to get around. They would take their software out and race it in the black desert of the electronic night. — Neal Stephenson

I had already learned from more than a decade of political life that I was going to be criticized no matter what I did, so I might as well be criticized for something I wanted to do. — Rosalynn Carter

I believe that the greatest teachers create thinking students. — David F. Swensen

Plans are less important than planning. — Dale McConkey