Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old...- Wang Lung

And to him war was a thing like earth and sky and water and why it was no one knew but only that it was.

To those at the great house it means nothing, this handful of earth, but to me it means how much!" (Buck, 57)

The narrator refers to a character as "an oily scoundrel whose hands were heavy with the money that stuck to them.

A mí me ha tocado no estar contigo

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

I had an epiphany: I was a loser.

But my favorite band is Curbside Life, out of Chicago.

The Illuminati is just the evil, 'nameless' people who are behind governments.

Everybody in the minor leagues - if you're a player, an announcer, whatever - wants to be in the big leagues.

Be certain that you do not die without having done something wonderful for humanity.

Who is against democracy? Is it the one who calls for peaceful resistance, or the one who bombs people, sheds their blood and leads them away from the leaders under feeble and dirty pretexts?

You will eat this and go to sleep, so your pronouns get their antecedents back.

I hope people get genuine joy from our music.