Ban Diem Duc Quotes

#1. PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic.

Ambrose Bierce

#2. I'm dying twice as fast
as any other American
between eighteen and thirty-five
This disturbs me,
but I try not to show it in public.

Essex Hemphill

#3. My job defines me, amuses me, thrills me and makes me feel like I am making a difference.

Kathryn Primm

#4. The heft of a life in the hands grows both lighter and weightier. Over time, my life has become more saturated with its shape and made-ness, while my poems have become more and more free. The first word of every poem might be "Yes." The next words: "And then."

Jane Hirshfield

#5. Consciousness is the awareness of the interaction and interdependence among mind, body, spirit, and the universe where it resides.

Debasish Mridha

#6. There's nothing greater in the world than when somebody on the team does something good, and everybody gathers around to pat him on the back.

Billy Martin

#7. I had reached the conclusion myself that sex was not a division but a continuum, that almost nobody was altogether of one sex or another, and that the infinite subtlety of the shading from one extreme to the other was one of the most beautiful of nature's phenomena.

Jan Morris

#8. A female on the loose was a dangerous creature.

Annette Curtis Klause

#9. The process of writing a book is like the process of preparing a dinner. Serving dishes, choosing ingredients and so on.

Brian Tracy