Lin Yutang Quotes
A vague uncritical idealism always lends itself to ridicule and too much of it might be a danger to mankind, leading it round in a futile wild-goose chase for imaginary ideals.
Lin Yutang
Quotes to Explore
Ever since I was really little, I loved performing and being up on stage, and being the entertainment.
Olivia Holt
The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.
Larry King
Even among those who I would not count as 'friends,' I have met many people online who have simply commented on my work or are interested by what I do.
Aaron Swartz
In a way, being born is a sort of ecological contagion. When you have longevity of family, we remember our grandfathers and maybe our great-grandfathers. We somehow don't have the capacity in modern life to remember further than that. All of the ramifications of their lives have an effect on us, and we're not aware of it.
Lance Henriksen
Pakistan is alarmed by the rising Indian influence in Afghanistan, and fears that an Afghanistan cleansed of the Taliban would be an Indian client state, thus sandwiching Pakistan between two hostile countries. The paranoia of Pakistan about India's supposed dark machinations should never be underestimated.
Salman Rushdie
If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job.
Harold S. Geneen
How could anybody think this man was sick? All right, so he had funny dreams. That was better than being plain mean and hateful, like about one quarter of the people she had ever met.
Ursula K. Le Guin
The first day I was in a daze thinking, ‘What am I doing? What’s my role?’ and then slowly we started writing with each other, and it was great. It took me way back to my high school days when I was playing in a rock band.
A. R. Rahman
«What we have done, which you did not do, is to deceive people.»
Mariano Rajoy
If rain was God crying, I think God was drunk and his girlfriend just slept with Zeus.
Chuck Klosterman
I remembered the way out suggested by a great princess when told that the peasants had no bread: 'Well, let them eat cake'.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
It's probably a reflection of my own, if I may say, loneliness. I don't know. It could be the whole human condition.
Edward Hopper
