Wei Boyang Quotes & Sayings

I want to be black, to know black, to luxuriate in whatever I might be calling blackness at any particular time, but to do so in order to come out on the other side, to experience a humanity that is neither colorless nor reducible to color. — Henry Louis Gates

I do most of my work sitting down; that's where I shine. — Robert Benchley

Everyone gets cards at the beginning of life. I am transgender, I decided to be honest and tell everyone about it, and that's it. — Eddie Izzard

The world doesn't go around on love between men and women. Lovers get very little done. But friends do. When you are past middle life
and I hope you have the rich experience of love along the way
don't think everything is all over. Don't regret the vanished cocktail when the stuffed turkey is about to come in. Flip out your napkin and bite into it! Friends you can gather around you in the later years of life are worth the whole thing ... — Marie Dressler

Making systems work is the great task of my generation of physicians and scientists. But I would go further and say that making systems work - whether in healthcare, education, climate change, making a pathway out of poverty - is the great task of our generation as a whole. — Atul Gawande

We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink. — Epicurus

I was running on the earth,
Slashing primeval winds.
I was running in the world,
Riddled with darkness. — Keishi Ando

Ten Days That Shook The World, by Eisenstein, I went to see it, and I was so impressed with this film, so impressed with what cinema could do. — Francis Ford Coppola

Believe all the good you can of everyone. Do not measure others by yourself. If they have advantages which you have not, let your liberality keep pace with their good fortune. Envy no one, and you need envy no one. — William Hazlitt

... where I walked, the frost shaped itself to my will, dancing in the air like music over water. — Eugie Foster