Korean Word Quotes

#1. The Korean word for tree rose in his mind, surprising him, like a fish breaking the surface of a calm pond.

Sun Yung Shin

#2. The market kills more artistic passion than anything else.

Robert James Waller

#3. It's a poor atom blaster that won't point both ways.

Isaac Asimov

#4. Most criminals are not born; they are made ... What the State really punishes in a criminal is often its own neglect, its own failure to do its duty to the citizen.

William Randolph Hearst

#5. Nothing is impossible for a man with a strong will. The possible is in store only for a man who loves the future. There is no word "impossible" in the Korean language.

Kim Jong Il

#6. When you leave,
weary of me,
without a word I shall gently let you go.

Kim Sowol

#7. You know when you're in a rush and you put a T-shirt on backward? Even if there's no tag in it, you don't have to look in the mirror to know it's on wrong. You can just feel it.

Peter Clines

#8. Some people are oil and water.

John Christopher

#9. No sex is better than bad sex.

Germaine Greer

#10. You had nightmares every night for a long time and screamed in Korean words, but we didn't know what they meant. I asked someone who knew Korean, and he said it was um-ma um-ma, the word for mom.

Soojung Jo

#11. Hearsay cannot stand as valid testimony, and assumption spun from hearsay is a rope of sand.

Theodore Roscoe

#12. You can handle just about anything that comes at you out on the road with a believable grin, common sense and whiskey.

Bill Murray

#13. Westernization is an often-used word in Korea, and can be applied to something considered cold, lacking in jeong, and going against traditional Korean values. To suggest that Korean households are now "Westernized," whatever that may mean exactly, would be a gross oversimplification.

Daniel Tudor

#14. The environment acts more strongly upon the individual life the less fixed and strong this individual life may be.

Maria Montessori