J.J. Rodeo

“The time will come
when, with elation,
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror,
and each will smile at the other’s welcome.”
― Derek Walcott, Sea Grapes

“And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“وقتی زبان مادری‌ات فقط 127 فعل داشته باشد که مستقیم صرف می‌شوند، وقتی هزاران فعل دیگر را باید به کمک فعل معین صرف کرد، و این فعل هم درست همان فعلی باشد که برای عمل هم‌خوابگی به‌کار می‌رود، آن‌وقت زبان خیانتکار می‌شود.”
― رضا قاسمی / Reza Ghasemi

“We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.”
― Winston S. Churchill