Vongdara Souphanouvong Quotes & Sayings

What if I said I wanted a friend?' The ship crouches among the fresh-cut stalks. 'Or a lover? That's how you make a person, yes? By affection and intimacy. By touches like knives in a salted bed. — Benjanun Sriduangkaew

We can't want an education for kids more than they want it for themselves. — Tony Danza

She no longer longed to be anyone more or less than who she was. — Elise Kova

Unless the great majority of Americans not only have, but believe they have, a fair chance, the better American future will be dangerously compromised. — Herbert Croly

Nothing but disaster follows from applause. — Thomas Bernhard

Anyone who repeats a question when they're asked one is just buying time. — Priscilla Glenn

The fundamentals of what journalism is about don't necessarily change. What will change is the delivery of news. — Stephen Kinzer

Heartbreak was a bitch. — Jenna Harte

When you respond to life, that's positive; when you react to life, that's negative. — Zig Ziglar

Anyway, she loved horses a lot, my mother. When she was growing up she had a horse she said got lonely sometimes? and he liked to come right up to the house and put his head in at the window to see what was going on.
"What was his name?
"Paintbox." I'd loved it when my mother told me about the stables back in Kansas: owls and bats in the rafters, horses nickering and blowing. I knew the names of all her childhood horses and dogs.
Paintbox! Was he all different colors?
"He was spotted, sort of. I've seen pictures of him. Sometimes - in the summer - he'd come and look in on her while she was having her afternoon nap. She could hear him breathing, you know, just inside the curtains. — Donna Tartt

I was a swimsuit model, and I got bored. Acting was challenging. It was very hard and intimidating. We choose to do things in life sometimes that scare the crap outta us. Performing in front of people was my challenge. — Christa Campbell

Your own efforts "did not bring it to pass," only God-but rejoice if God found a use for your efforts in His work. — Meister Eckhart

I've never been very interested in literary narrative in movies, it always seems an obligatory trait and the least interesting of all the things film can do. It forces us to look through the thing instead of at it, it teaches us to ignore our senses and look for meaning outside the immediate world of our experience. — Rick Alverson

a human being is the measure of all things. of the things that are, that they are, and of things that are not, that they are not. — Plato

Awareness is an inner quality of consciousness; it has nothing to do with closed or open eyes. — Rajneesh