Trobriand Quotes & Sayings

I was very lucky with the parents I was blessed with. I don't think it could have worked out any better. They've always been so understanding of me and understanding of what I want to do. — Emma Stone

I am Myra Breckinridge whom no man will ever possess. Clad only in garter belt and one dress shield, I held off the entire elite of the Trobriand Islanders, a race who possess no words for "why" or "because." Wielding a stone axe, I broke the arms, the limbs, the balls of their finest warriors, my beauty blinding them, as it does all men, unmanning them in the way that King Kong was reduced to mere simian whimper by beauteous Fay Wray whom I resemble left three-quarter profile if the key light is no more than five feet high during the close shot. — Gore Vidal

The challenge to Asia is to discard the dry, meatless bone of mysticism and fatalism. — Ferdinand Marcos

Poetry stands or falls by its music. — John Burnside

Every role I do is a dream role for me because I can't imagine I'm doing it. — Genelia D'Souza

Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything. — Samuel Johnson

I get verbal diarrhea in the writers' room. I just tell everyone a million anecdotes and stories and craziness, and we all double up on the floor laughing. — Jill Kargman

and she and the mare set off after Safi. — Susan Dennard

Socialist endeavour of the Fabian type would not have amounted to anything at any other time. But it did amount to much during the three decades preceding 1914, because things and souls were ready for that kind of message and neither for a less nor for a more radical one. Formulation and organization of existing opinion were all that was needed in order to turn possibilities into articulate policy, and this "organizing formulation" the Fabians provided in a most workmanlike manner. They were reformers. The spirit of the times made socialists of them. They were genuine socialists because they aimed at helping in a fundamental reconstruction of society which in the end was to make economic care a public affair. — Joseph Alois Schumpeter

One of the ways [racism] pops up is when they turn a comic into a live-action movie and there's this temptation to make Asian characters white. — Gene Luen Yang

Only those of tranquil minds, and none else, can attain abiding joy, by realizing within their souls the Being who manifests one essence in a multiplicity of forms. — Rabindranath Tagore

One cleans someone else's threshold of consciousness only if one's own home is dirty. — Karl Kraus

Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant. — Oscar Niemeyer

Naked I came, naked I leave the scene — J.V. Cunningham