Siam Quotes

#1. The better you are as a parent, the richer the nest you've built, the more difficult it is for your kids to leave. So they have to invent things to dislike about you. And they're brilliant at it.

Dustin Hoffman

#2. History flung the accents on our names into the water when it took us across the Gulf of Siam thirty years ago.

Kim Thuy

#3. I don't want anything given to me.

Cardale Jones

#4. Nineveh, Tyre, a God-forsaken railway in Siam, Dorrigo Evans said, flame

Richard Flanagan

#5. The campaign against the death penalty has been - while a powerful campaign, its participants have been those who attend all of the vigils, a relatively small number of people.

Angela Davis

#6. Be careful about Burma. Most people cannot remember whether it was Siam and has become Thailand, or whether it is now part of Malaysia and should be called Sri Lanka.

Alexander Cockburn

#7. Therefore, and Donahue was loath to admit it, the only explanation for the position of Kennedy's exit wound was that the shot had not come from the right rear but from the left rear, from a second gunman located somewhere over the President's left shoulder.

Bonar Menninger

#8. If you can't change it don't worry about it.

David Barrett

#9. I made 'Siam Sunset.' In Australia, it was pretty much universally hated, but I did notice that almost any American who saw it loved that film, so in 2001 I made a film in America called 'Swimfan,' and they released like a big studio movie, and it made money.

John Polson

#10. The fact is remarkable, that though education in its higher degrees is popularly neglected in Siam, there is scarcely a man or woman in the empire who cannot read and write.

Anna Leonowens

#11. You put out a funny podcast, you talk about bak chor mee. I will say mee siam mai hum.

Lee Hsien Loong

#12. You can tell yourself anything you want, but until you believe what you're telling yourself, you're wasting words.

James Frey

#13. The Malays can hardly be said to have an indigenous literature, for it is almost entirely derived from Persia, Siam, Arabia, and Java. Arabic is their sacred language.

Isabella Bird

#14. I usually eat in my friend Tom Corcoran's place - the Siam Thai in Monkstown. I go there for a very large plate of beef in red wine sauce.

Ian McKeever