Zijin Quotes & Sayings

She had to quickly pop back to the fifteenth century to find a word for how beautiful he was. The boy was makeless. — Helen Oyeyemi

We need to stop telling [women], "Get a mentor and you will excel." Instead, we need to tell them, "Excel and you will get a mentor. — Sheryl Sandberg

Allow the heart to empty itself of all turmoil! Retrieve the utter tranquility of the mind from which you issued.
Although all forms are dynamic,and we all grow and transform,each of us is compelled to return to our root. Our root is quietude. — Lao-Tzu

You learn that not all things fall into a certain kind of pattern that can be predictable and that can be understandable and that's going to be easy, you know. — Joe Mantegna

His mind was of a most phlegmatic sort, cool in its private applications, quick, and excessively rational; he possessed a fault common to those of high intelligence, however, which was that he tended to regard the gift of his intellect as a license of a kind, by whose rarefied authority he was protected, in all circumstances, from ever behaving ill. He considered his moral obligations to be of an altogether different class than those of lesser men, and so rarely felt shame or compunction, except in very general terms. — Eleanor Catton

When considering marriage one should ask oneself this question; 'will I be able to talk with this person into old age?' Everything else is transitory, the most time is spent in conversation. — Bertrand Russell

We have parts of our system which are overwhelmed by regulation. It wasn't the absence of regulation that was the problem. It was despite the presence of regulation you got huge risks built up. — Timothy Geithner

That's what high energy does. It amplifies everything. Speak louder, gesticulate more, feel more alive than your audience. That will amplify your message. — Charlie Houpert

It's the change of rhythm which I think is what keeps me alive. In Spain I hear so much noise from my window that can't stand it. In Switzerland it's the lack of noise that drives me crazy. — Geraldine Chaplin

Without question the most unpopular medium of musical sound in the world. — Thomas Beecham

On one of the right-side-up pages show wrote, with some difficulty, Know what roots know: there is only one tree. — Katherine Catmull

Lie as convincingly as I can and pray she doesn't kill someone important. — Robin LaFevers