Yoon Mi Rae Quotes

#1. Salt is the difference between eating in Technicolor and eating in black and white.

Jay Rayner

#2. Since Winston cannot express himself openly in society for fear of punishment, the diary becomes an important medium for him to express his true feelings about the state and the Party.

Trisha Lively

#3. I don't want to worry anymore thinking about the future. Mi Rae ... 'Mi' meaning not yet. 'Rae' meaning coming. Why should I decide on the present, thinking about the future that's not here yet? I won't do that anymore.

Yoon Mi-rae

#4. The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.

P. J. O'Rourke

#5. No one we knew ever believed that there was anything between us but the sex and some virulent allure, my dirty dishwater circling the drain of you. Not a pretty comparison but maybe it's the best we'll ever deserve, either of us.

Caitlin R. Kiernan

#6. They offered me millions and millions and millions of dollars to write books about Cary. That was between us. That was private. I'll always love him.

Dyan Cannon

#7. The tendency of our perceptions is to emphasise increasingly the objective elements in an impression, unless we have some special reason, as artists have, for doing the opposite.

Bertrand Russell

#8. Urging others to read F. Scott Fitzgerald, if not a reactionary act, was not something one could do in 1968.

Haruki Murakami

#9. Girls are always getting mad at each other and they tell their hairdresser to purposely mess up another girl's hair.

Yoon Mi-rae

#10. Wisdom remembers. Happiness forgets.

Mason Cooley

#11. The Poet's leaves are gathered one by one,
In the slow process of the doubtful years.

Bayard Taylor

#12. He looks like he needs worming.

Darrell Royal

#13. Blemishes on the beauty of a person one loves are like grace notes adding something to a piece of music.

Winston Graham

#14. The story of FDR as U.S. Commander in Chief is a heroic war story of a president who had already overcome great adversity in facing polio but who went on to take the reins of our armed forces in the greatest conflagration in human history - on our behalf.

Nigel Hamilton

#15. You will ask me, after this, why, I didn't tell you this before. It is because I know how powerful a story can be. It can change the course of history. It can save a life. But it can also be a sinkhole, a quicksand in which you become stuck, unable to write yourself free.

Jodi Picoult