Taishanese Quotes & Sayings

I love books . I adore everything about them. I love the feel of the pages on my fingertips. They are light enough to carry, yet so heavy with worlds and ideas . I love the sound of the pages flicking against my fingers. Print against fingerprints. Books make people quiet, yet they are so loud — Nnedi Okorafor

A pawn only needs to move five spaces to become the queen" - from Bhendi Bazaar — Vish Dhamija

Maybe if I'd gone in younger, I wouldn't have had that feeling, but I've seen an enormous amount of changes since the early-'70s in how this stuff is shot. I did the first TV movie ever shot in 18 days; before this film the normal length of shooting a TV movie was between 21 and 26 days. We shot a full-up, two-hour TV movie in 18 days with Donald Sutherland playing the lead, who had never worked on television before. — Richard Masur

A shrug. "I wasn't sent to you until now." "Are you serious?" Incredulity sharpened my tone. "Is your boss in a bad mood, or does he suffer from time-delay up there? — Jeaniene Frost

The art of being sick is not the same as the art of getting well. — Tony Snow

With the empowerment of an advanced Teacher, and your own best efforts, you will be able to explore the mysteries of knowledge that lead to completion and perfection. — Frederick Lenz

The English language is under assault by stupid people who use words they don't understand, and is defended by pompous asses who like to correct those people. We're not sure who to side with. — Tim Cameron

Skeptics question the validity of a particular claim by calling for evidence to prove or disprove it. — Michael Shermer

All right," I said. "Let's show these Seattle assholes how we do things in Vegas. Jennifer?" She held up the detonator. I nodded. "Light 'em up!" 41. One click of the detonator, so fast her fingers blurred, and the alley erupted in a blast of crumpled metal and flame. — Craig Schaefer

It is difficult to say why I decided I wanted to be an artist. Obviously, I had some facility, more than other people, but sometimes facility comes because one is more interested in looking at things, examining them, more interested in the visual world than other people are. — David Hockney

I like to believe that everyone is born with the same skill set, and that it is the influences that one comes upon. — Ron Perlman

Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is even in the grave, And thou must die. — George Herbert