Fong's Quotes

#1. Fong's obscenity-spattered fit about keyboards. So what to look

Vernor Vinge

#2. The WHO is the lead agency in health in the United Nations system, and clearly we have very important functions to play.

Margaret Chan

#3. Our right hemisphere, it thinks in pictures and it learns kinesthetically through the movement of our bodies. Information ... explodes into this enormous collage of what this present moment looks like, smells like and tastes like, what it feels like and what it sounds like.

Jill Bolte Taylor

#4. Ryan Stout, a straight-arrow-looking kind of guy, shocks the crowd into laughter with his inventive interplay between innocence and a jarringly twisted point of view. He goes from loony to weirdly logical. With him, it's more than clever writing; his comedy is based on clear and clever thinking.

Ben Fong-Torres

#5. The minimum wage is something that F.D.R. put in place a long time ago during the Great Depression. I don't think it worked then. It didn't solve any problems then and it hasn't solved any problems in 50 years.

John Raese

#6. If I want to look half decent, a blow dry is a godsend. I'm crap at doing my own hair.

Suki Waterhouse

#7. The arts can enrich all of us in this nation as individuals. The arts can enrich all of our communities and the country. And the arts can connect us to each other like nothing else can.

Michelle Obama

#8. As a bookish child, I would come to see the one-child policy as one of the most fascinating and bizarre things about the land of my ancestors, equal parts Aldous Huxley and King Herod.

Mei Fong

#9. Space flight still had a long way to go to catch up with the safety record of the milkshake industry.

Kevin Fong

#10. I shall not attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description (of pornography), and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that.

Potter Stewart

#11. We went from being thought of and talked about as "a band that plays a so-and-so style of music" (a grunge band, a stoner band, etc) to "a band that plays music with a certain sensibility or style to it". I'm not able to see quite what that is, but it's there and some people like it a lot.

Bent Saether

#12. With therapeutic Qigong when there is no cure, there is palliation.

Chan Siok Fong

#13. The notion that one can liberate another soul from captivity is an illusion of the very young.

Iris Murdoch

#14. No matter how close we got to a station or a disc jockey ... they could disappear into the ether without so much as a wave goodbye or a farewell song.

Ben Fong-Torres

#15. For Americans, the car is the American way. Jay Gatsby roars through capitalism, individual freedom, and the good life. For China, the train is the metaphor. Everyone's on board, there's no chance to steer, and it's clickety-clack to collectivism's dreams.

Mei Fong

#16. But I want you to see me. An expression of vulnerability washed over his face. Now you can see me.

Mia Sheridan