"Vision without implementation is counterproductive."

“I wanna be drunk when I wake up, on the right side of the wrong bed.”

“How often one sees people looking far and wide for what they are holding in their hands? Why! I am doing it myself at this very moment.”

Source : Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”

“If you really want to know something, you have to be willing to pay the price.”

“The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.”

“I think in a larger sense, immigrant narrative is comprehensive and speaks to the core of human experience.”

Source : "‘Birds of Paradise Lost’: A Conversation With Author Andrew Lam". Interview with Anna Challet, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2013.

“No one ever dies an atheist.....”

“Scotland small? Our multiform, infinite Scotland SMALL?”

“The one who decides who goes ahead has the upper hand, regardless of who gets to go. This is why many women do not feel empowered by such privileges as having doors held open for them. The advantage of going first through the door is less salient to them than the disadvantage of being granted the right to walk through a door by someone who is framed, by his magnanimous gesture, as the arbiter of the right-of-way.”