Travel In Taiwan Quotes & Sayings

I'd learned so much from traveling to familiar places that I figured I'd learn twice as much by going to a place I knew nothing about. — Gerry Abbey

I looked out again at the rising moon and I let the weight of my day, my week, lift away with the rushing wind as I was blown into the depths of myself. — Gerry Abbey

Fone Bone: HOLD IT! Thorn thinks Gran'ma Ben can help us get back to Boneville!
Phoney Bone: IT'S NOT WORTH IT! LET GO OF ME!
Fone Bone: Would you wait a minute?!! We can explain everything!
Phoney Bone: HELP! HELP! They've destroyed my cousin's brain!! OH MY GOSH! THey've already milked you haven't they?!! — Jeff Smith

As the silence returned, I sat back and felt the tension ease away; I hadn't even known I was tense. A few moments passed and once again the cycling fan laced in with the clanging chains and mixed with the rumbling mower and the buzzing insects. — Gerry Abbey

We are about to be attacked by Al Qaeda. Wave flags if you have them. That always seems to scare them away. I'm kidding. — Kurt Vonnegut

My professional life had started and here I was at a professional dinner full of uninhibited drinking. — Gerry Abbey

Statuettes of drunken sailors, velvet pictures of island maidens, plastic seashell lamps made in Taiwan. What contempt the people who think up souvenirs have for other people. — Diane Johnson

And so we went. And so it went. And, slowly, I began to learn: speaking in the same language does not equal communication, especially when there is a cultural divide. — Gerry Abbey

Culture arises and unfolds in and as play ... culture itself bears the character of play. — Johan Huizinga

Somewhere, all the people we have loved and lost are still among us, in the house that we call history. — Graham Masterton

It was one of those striking moments in life where you find familiarity in the inexplicable. — Gerry Abbey

I felt sad for my "actual boss" who was too hard-pressed under his mom's weight. — Ankita Kapoor

None of this interpersonal work will matter if you don't use the things you learn. — Paula Heller Garland

If you're in the penaut business you learn to think small. — Eugene McCarthy

The greatest wealth of this nation is not only the mergers of giant corporations or the possibility of further globalization of the infrastructure of the world. In the United States, our greatest single source of wealth is the minds and talent of our young people. Not to use it is stupid - to waste it is a crime. — Isaac Stern

Be quiet, or my wife will take away your first born and make him or her work in one of her sweatshops! — Marc Anthony

There were signs everywhere but none that I could read or even hope to decipher. These multi-lined symbols unhinged my familiar world. — Gerry Abbey

The principal object of your reading should be for the acquisition of useful knowledge , and the strengthening, refining, and ennobling of your character. — Grenville Kleiser

Somehow, we were passing the boundaries of language and finding clarity in shared thought, even if we were just talking about beer! — Gerry Abbey