Farsang Quotes

#1. In the mountains, travelers were reduced to the speed of men on foot. Here, the ancient English sense of journey, 'a day's travel' (French journee), meant the same as the Old Persian word farsang, 'the distance a man could travel on foot in a day,' and the territory was in effect ungovernable.

Rory Stewart

#2. The Olympic games are already there and we don't have even half of what you need to train well.

Dayron Robles

#3. I wish to declare with all earnestness that I do not want any religious ceremonies performed for me after my death. I do not believe in such ceremonies, and to submit to them, even as a matter of form, would be hypocrisy and an attempt to delude ourselves and others.

Jawaharlal Nehru

#4. Probably drove in from Mission Hills, feeling magnanimous about setting foot north of the river.

Gillian Flynn

#5. I'm very unhappy about my entire life if my writing is going wrong.

Tom Stoppard

#6. Nebraska," I said. "What's in Nebraska?" "A top-secret Earth Defense Alliance base.

Ernest Cline

#7. I've worked in animation for a long time. I started in Spain and I wanted to make feature films. That desire to figure out how to make animated features brought me to the U.S. to work for Disney.

Raul Garcia

#8. If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.

Katharine Hepburn

#9. Wal-Mart does not do big mergers, though it will buy much smaller competitors in so-called 'tuck-in acquisitions.'

Alex Berenson

#10. It is misleading in a crucial way to view information as something that can be poured into an empty vessel, like a fluid or even energy.

Anatol Rapoport

#11. While I am writing about the details of my own intimate encounters and journeys in America and the Far East.

Frederick Lenz

#12. If I spoke no English, my world would be limited to the Japanese-speaking community, and no matter how talented I was, I could never do business, seek employment or take part in public affairs outside that community.

S.I. Hayakawa

#13. In the fullness of time, when it is our turn to give, we must in turn plant gardens that we may never eat the fruit of, which will benefit the generations to come.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

#14. It's the exile's dilemma. The home they yearn for is never the home to which they return. If they return.

Lauren Willig

#15. Any outfit that can't figure out clean toilets and decent theming on its own can't benefit from my advice.

Cory Doctorow