Trang Nguyen Quotes & Sayings

Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world? — Isaac Newton

One has fear in front of a goat, in back of a mule, and on every side of a fool — E.W. Howe

I think consumerism breeds dissatisfaction, and I think that the advertisers play to that. So I cannot be comfortable with that. On the other hand, the cornucopia of products and innovation - I love Apple, for example. That's a temple of consumerism in many ways. — John Elkington

Get five or six of your smartest friends in a room and ask them to rate your idea. — Mark Pincus

Sometimes you stop seeing what the person is to the world. You only see what the person is to you. — Jennifer Gilmore

Remembrance of our kiss brings not your lips nor mine to mind. The flesh can only envy consumption so divine. — Vanna Bonta

A precious performance, Blaine had called it, in that gently forbearing tone he used when they talked about novels, as though he was sure that she, with a little more time and a little more wisdom, would come to accept that the novels he liked were superior, novels written by young and youngish men and packed with things, a fascinating, confounding accumulation of brands and music and comic books and icons, with emotions skimmed over, and each sentence stylishly aware of its own stylishness. She had read many of them, because he recommended them, but they were like cotton candy that so easily evaporated from her tongue's memory. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The army slew a thousand and showed little pity
The king ordered fealty from the conquered city
The prince charmed its people with words wise and witty
And the queen sat on a couch, looking very pretty — Shannon Hale

My bedroom is so messy, if I died of natural causes, the cops would be like no he didn't, clearly there was a struggle. — Dov Davidoff

The person who loves his life will lose it: it could not be otherwise, for to love one's life is a fundamental denial of God's sovereignty, of God's rights, and a brazen elevation of self to the apogee of one's perception, and therefore an idolatrous focus on self, which is the heart of all sin — D. A. Carson

The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare. — Virginia Woolf

A occasional whiff of his personality drifted back to me. — Raymond Chandler