Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston Quotes

#1. No more Network reluctance to make a program too entertaining for fear its commercials would pale in comparison.

David Foster Wallace

#2. I instinctively decided that I would prove that I wasn't different, that it should not be odd to hear me speaking English. From that day forward I lived with this double impulse:the urge to disappear and the desperate desire to be accepted

Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston

#3. Now she wanted for me the same thing I thought I wanted. Acceptance, in her eyes, was simply another means for survival.

Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston

#4. Exercise humility and restraint.

Warren Buffett

#5. When your mother and your father are having a fight, do you want them to kill each other? Or do you just want them to stop fighting?

Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston

#6. You cannot deport 110,000 people unless you have stopped seeing individuals. Of course, for such a thing to happen, there has to be a kind of acquiescence on the part of the victims, some submerged belief that this treatment is deserved, or at least allowable.

Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston

#7. I think Shakespeare is like a dialect. If I heard a broad Scots accent, I'd probably struggle at first but then I'd start to look for words I recognise and I'd get the gist. I think Shakespeare is like that.

Ralph Fiennes

#8. I'm hungry," she said. "Let me cook!" "I'm hungry too. I'll eat you!

Charles Bukowski

#9. John Kerry's campaign attacks on gas prices ignore the reality of Kerry's long record of supporting higher gas prices and blocking the president's comprehensive energy plan.

Steve Schmidt

#10. That continuous, unnamed ache I had been living with was precise and definable now. Call it the foretaste of being hated. I knew ahead of time that if someone looked at me with hate, I would have to allow it, to swallow it, because something in me, something about me deserved it.

Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston

#11. The reason I want to remember this is because I know we'll never be able to do it again.

Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston