Escuela Secundaria Quotes

#1. To American ears, the Filipino pronunciation of the word "evacuate" sounded more like "bokweet." They soon further Americanized it to "buckwheat," which would become guerilla slang meaning to place as much distance between oneself and the Japanese as possible.

John D. Lukacs

#2. I do what I do because of Walt Disney. Goofy. Mickey Mouse. I never forgot how their films entertained me.

John Lasseter

#3. The more we make friends with ourselves, the more we can see that our ways of shutting down and closing off are rooted in the mistaken thinking that the way to get happy is to blame somebody else.

Pema Chodron

#4. This damned burg's getting me. If I don't get away soon I'll be going blood-simple like the natives.

Dashiell Hammett

#5. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#6. I'll read pretty much anywhere and anytime, but for a while now, I've really enjoyed reading on flights, especially the longer hauls, when I'm unplugged from everything and can completely immerse myself in the world of a book and submit happily to its rhythms, perspectives, ideas.

Chang-rae Lee

#7. Carbon is the currency of how you measure climate change, but water will be the teeth.

Jim Yong Kim

#8. The dead neither see nor ear.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. He smiled then, and that smile was like the sunset, stretching from one end of her existence to the other, lighting her way not by sight, but with a slow kindle inside she knew would never leave her bereft for the sun's warmth.

Joey W. Hill

#10. I have sort of a life in Los Angeles.

George Stroumboulopoulos

#11. I love to work with performers that are very different to me.

Flula Borg