Jenny Han Quotes
There is power in seeing a face that looks like yours do something, be someone. There is power in moving from the sidelines to the center.
Quotes to Explore
-
Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.
-
Since the moment I could hold a pencil, I have spent nearly all day every day writing. And there is not an age group that I have not written for. You can read me from birth 'til death.
-
I am interested in the idea of 'taste.' And by 'taste,' I mean opinion, inspiration and the craft of creating a personality through fabric and design.
-
It's always an honor to represent your country.
-
Follow me around. I don't care. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored.
-
It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.
-
I am a pretty level-headed person, but that person, Harry Reid, has been the most destructive entity in Washington when it comes to civility. By far.
-
To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.
-
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
-
At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.
-
I know it sounds ridiculous, but I haven't quite got over the miracle that you plant things, and they do sprout up.
-
In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing had absorbed the shock, so that we were not uneasy about the motor in case of a landing of that kind.
-
My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
-
The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.
-
It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.
-
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
-
Downloading songs is not good.
-
The plastic surgery issue is really looming because girls in the U.S. are getting it in their teens.
-
Trouble shots are surprisingly easy if you activate your imagination. You simply must be able to imagine exactly what flight the ball will take before you can play any shot well.
-
The emphasis on innovation and technology in our companies has resulted in a few of them establishing global benchmarks in product design and development, manufacturing practices and human resource capabilities. However, there is no room for complacency.
-
Men remain in their present low and primitive condition; but if they should feel the influence of the spring of springs arousing them, they would of necessity rise to a higher and more ethereal life.
-
The largest mistake would be to start to move away from petroleum, a proven and economic energy source, to more speculative and expensive sources...The world will eventually leave the age of oil, but there is no geologic reason for this to happen until near the end of the 21st century.
-
There is power in seeing a face that looks like yours do something, be someone. There is power in moving from the sidelines to the center.
