English Literature famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • One cannot with impunity try to transfer this task entirely to mechanical assistants if one wishes to figure something, even though the final result is often small indeed.

  • At least Manhattan, in terms of danger and eccentricity, is much more of a theme park now. You couldn't really shoot the old Law & Order in New York today. It's a different city.

  • For no one does life drag more disagreeably than for those who try to speed it up.

  • I tell you, I was as nervous as a long-tailed cat in a roomful of rockers!

  • What you are today is the choice you made yesterday.

  • The world unwraps itself to you, again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew.

  • It's hard to stay true to yourself and what you want in life when there are so many distractions and so much craziness going on around you.

  • Chinese Americans, when you try to understand what things in you are Chinese, how do you separate what is peculiar to childhood, to poverty, insanities, one family, your mother who marked your growing with stories, from what is Chinese? What is Chinese tradition and what is the movies?

  • I came from Long Island, so I had a lot of experience at the stick. I played in junior high school, then I played in high school. The technical aspect of the game was my forte. I had all that experience, then I had strength and I was in good condition.

  • Life is change, to cease to change is to cease to live; yet if you may shed a tear beside the death-bed of an old friend, let not your heart be silent on the dissolving of a faith.