Xinran Pianist Quotes

#1. Eloquence in public assemblies is not the surest road to fame and preferment, at least unless it be used with great caution, very rarely, and with great reserve.

John Adams

#2. Growing up in England, I was constantly surrounded by the Arthurian legend.

Jamie Campbell Bower

#3. Giving it those ones' is Delhi School of Architecture slang for 'faking it big time'.

Anupama Chopra

#4. I shook my head. 'I did not contribute to the sex trade, no. I know you're disappointed; I'm sorry.'
Linn huffed through a smile. 'You totally did Thailand wrong. Go back.'

Cary Attwell

#5. Brilliant people never think of the lives they smash, being brilliant.

Don DeLillo

#6. Like God
Gumbo is hard
to get right
& I don't bother
asking for it outside
my mother's house.
Like life, there's no one
way to do it,
& a hundred ways,
from here to Sunday,
to get it dead wrong.

Kevin Young

#7. The best school of discipline is home. Family life is God's own method of training the young, and homes are very much as women make them.

Samuel Smiles

#8. I've been in movies where the movie doesn't come together but the role comes together, or the movie comes together but the role doesn't come together or something like that. Something misses. It's very difficult to make it hit on all cylinders - it's just very rare.

Nick Nolte

#9. No man will be respected by others who is despised by his own relatives.

Plautus

#10. And I was worried that if I looked too feminine, I would not be taken seriously. I really wanted to wear my shiny lip gloss and my girly skirt, but I decided not to. I wore a very serious, very manly, and very ugly suit.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#11. The Duchess set about studying Annette and shortly found her adversary's tragic flaw.
Chocolate.

William Goldman

#12. If they're going to remember the problem, make sure they remember it fondly.

Ron Kaufman

#13. Develop a vision, not a goal. Visions are much more powerful. 98% of what's going on in your brain is subconscious. Developing a vision requires the use of more of your brain than just developing a thought, which suggests we are tapping into subconscious brain power.

Josh Bezoni

#14. Sophocles said he drew men as they ought to be, and Euripides as they were.

Aristotle.