Quotes About Lin

#1. On opening night, standing under the Rogers's marquee, [Lin] realized that if Eliza's struggle was the element of Hamilton's story that had inspired him the most, then the show itself was a part of her legacy.

Jeremy McCarter

#2. She would drink until the trembling stopped. Then she would wilt over the piano like one of Celia's spinaches when Tam Lin forgot to water the garden.

Nancy Farmer

#3. You walk into the playgrounds in Shanghai and Beijing, and you see youngsters who are shorter, shaking and baking and having attitude. And Jeremy Lin is going to inspire all of them.

David Stern

#4. The myth of 'You have to be a tortured artist' is a myth," says Lin. "You can have a happy, healthy life and still go to all these crazy dark places in your writing, and then go play with your child and hug your wife.

Jeremy McCarter

#5. Tam Lin says rabbits give up when they're caught by coyotes [ ... ]. He says they consent to die because their animals and can't understand hope. But humans are different. They fight against death no matter how bad things seem, and sometimes, even when everything's against them, they win.

Nancy Farmer

#6. Everything looks different. The houses are all these wild colors. The light is strange. It smells primeval. You're on Mars."
"You are talking about driving?" Lin attempted to clarify.
"About wanderlust," she answered.

Nicole Mones

#7. 'A Court of Thorns and Roses' was actually inspired by three of my all-time-favorite fairy/folktales: 'Beauty and the Beast,' 'East of the Sun, West of the Moon' and 'Tam Lin.' I got the kernel of inspiration by wondering: 'What if 'Beauty' was a huntress?'

Sarah J. Maas

#8. When Lin optioned his book, Ron was relieved that the Founding Father who had the most dramatic and least appreciated life story would finally get his due - even though a rap musical was the last way that Ron had anticipated Hamilton getting it.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

#9. Jeremy Lin is the only Asian American in the NBA today and one of the few in any professional U.S. sport. His arrival is surely leading other talented Asian American athletes this week to contemplate a pro career.

Eric Liu

#10. Combining valuable insights from his experience in China, his time as the World Bank's chief economist, and the 2008 financial crisis, Justin Yifu Lin's recommendations for development policy reflect an impressive and unique personal journey.

Kemal Dervis

#11. It is while prone that ideas come. "A writer could get more ideas for his articles or his novels in this posture than he could by sitting doggedly before his desk morning and afternoon," writes Lin Yutang in his essay "On Lying in Bed.

Tom Hodgkinson

#12. one legend has it that Jews found Poland attractive because the country's name sounded like the Hebrew imperative po lin ("rest here").

Diane Ackerman

#13. Threat is such an unattractive word. Think of it as inspired relationship building."
Gabrielle "Gabby" Lin

Micah Caida

#14. Lin reflected how much power mere money had. Lying in the purse it was just coins. Let loose from confinement, it was blankets against the cold, and candied chestnuts. It was an old lady clad in a new dress with hibiscus flowers on it.

Kerry Greenwood

#15. Nothing I have will tempt you?" King Herla murmured.
Lin could only shake her head.
"Then perhaps I should offer myself," Herla said as he sank to his knees before her. "Wonderful girl, will you have me as your husband?"
"Oh, yes," Lin said.

Elizabeth Hoyt

#16. Termagant!" he moaned after her. "Shrew! Harridan! All right, all right, you win, you, you ... uh ... virago, you spitfire ... " He rubbed his head and sat up, grinned sheepishly. Lin made an obscene gesture at him without turning around.

China Mieville

#17. Does is make the dragon happy?" Matt asked.
"Does is make the dragon happy?" echoed Tam Lin. "Why, I never thought of that. I suppose it does. What other pleasure can a creature have whose life consists of making everyone else miserable?

Nancy Farmer

#18. Kun-Yang Lin is a young Taiwanese choreographer with strong American modern dance roots. (His) New York debut at the Cunningham studio were notable for their craft and sturdy spirituality.

Jennifer Dunning

#19. Let any stranger find mee so pleasant a county, such good way, large heath, three such places as Norwich, Yar. and Lin. in any county of England, and I'll bee once again a vagabond to visit them.

Thomas Browne

#20. It didn't play out the way we expected it to, yet it did work out in a completely different way," said Lin. "And it sort of taught us that if we were flexible we could always earn something and figure it out. We didn't get hurt. We didn't starve.

Herb McCormick

#21. No, Lin! This is India. Nobody can take his clothes off, not even to wash his bodies. This is India. Nobody is ever naked in India. And especially, nobody is naked without clothes.

Gregory David Roberts

#22. The man went to the controls, looking up at me, flaring his nostrils to my actions. His voice was like a voice under water. "We'll see what becomes of your rebellious nature when you lose your memories, Rei Lin." He punched a few buttons and turned the knob on the wall to the right.

Millicent Ashby

#23. With Taipei Tao Lin becomes the most interesting prose stylist of his generation.

Bret Easton Ellis

#24. Every summer Lin Kong returned to Goose Village to divorce his wife, Shuyu.

Ha Jin

#25. When we are in fear, there is no room for love, and when we are lin love, there is no room for fear.

Wayne W. Dyer

#26. We couldn't get enough Jeremy Lin material in the NBA store fast enough. And when we did, it was just gone in minutes.

David Stern

#27. Oh yeah? How about M'Lin the cursed?

L.J.Smith

#28. Lin beamed, and threw a couple of triumphant middle fingers in the air.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

#29. It's frightening to admit but if I lay off the lin it'a amazing how my love handles deplete. But is life without gin worth living?

Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen

#30. I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.

E.L. Doctorow

#31. That's how we keep this crazy place together - with the heart. Two hundred fuckin' languages, and a billion people. India is the heart. It's the heart that keeps us together. There's no place with people like my people, Lin. There's no heart like the Indian heart.

Gregory David Roberts

#32. Haven't you ever heard of the saying, "If you want to shoot the general, first shoot the horse!"?'
Lin
If you wanna shoot the general, then you should just SHOOT THE GENERAL!'
Ed

Hiromu Arakawa

#33. If Tao Lin had been born to Gary Shteyngart's parents and spent his early twenties slaving for pageviews at NewYorker, he would have written something like this, the Bright Lights, Big City of the click-here-now generation.

Gideon Lewis-Kraus

#34. Wai Lin is the first Bond Girl who is on a par with Bond, someone who can match up with him mentally and physically. From the moment our characters see each other, there is a wariness and a recognition that this person is not who she or he seems to be.

Michelle Yeoh

#35. I first emailed Tao Lin a story I wrote about the experience of losing my virginity sometime in April 2011. He didn't respond until it was later published on Thought Catalog, after which he sent me an email that said something very similar to, "I enjoyed reading this on Thought Catalog. Good job."

Marie Calloway

#36. It suggests that however innovative Obama's speeches and Lin's show might seem, they are, in fact, traditional. They don't reinvent the American character, they renew it.

Jeremy McCarter

#37. As for asking Tam Lin, Matt didn't know how to bring up the subject. By the way, is anyone planning to cut me up into T-bone steaks? Even more terrifying was the bodyguard's possible answer: You hit the nail on the head there, laddie. I always said you were bright as a button.

Nancy Farmer

#38. In the Shao Lin temple, they never allow you to touch the skin of a drum until you can tongue what you're going to play.

Dick Dale

#39. Lin-da." He parted the syllables very slightly, as with a comb.

Emily Fridlund

#40. The High Divide, a novel about a family in peril, is haunting and tense but leavened by considerable warmth and humanity. Lin Enger writes with durable grace about a man's quest for redemption and the human capacity for forgiveness.

Benjamin Percy

#41. There have been, in recent years, many Asian American pioneers in the public eye who've defied the condescendingly complimentary 'model minority' stereotype: actors like Lucy Liu, artists like Maya Lin, moguls like Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh. They are known, often admired.

Eric Liu

#42. Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

Lin Yutang

#43. You could do a 'Les Mis'-type musical about Hamilton, but it would have to be 12 hours long, because the amount of words on the bars when you're writing a typical song - that's maybe got 10 words per line.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

#44. Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.

Maya Lin

#45. I don't like happy people," Andrew said. "They're already happy; they don't need to be liked." "Wow, so selfless," Mark said. "You're a saint. I commend your selflessness. Amazing.

Tao Lin

#46. Hey, our kid is pretty great.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

#47. I was playing garbage minutes the first two to three weeks. There was definitely a little bit of 'what's going on?' in my prayers.

Jeremy Lin

#48. I just want people to respect the privacy of my relatives in Taiwan ... They need to live their lives as well.

Jeremy Lin

#49. My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.

Maya Lin

#50. I agreed to film after my rookie year in Golden State. I was more used to cameras and felt that my journey to the NBA was a story worth sharing. Little did we know how much bigger the platform and documentary would become after Linsanity.

Jeremy Lin

#51. When I was younger, I was very princessy. I always wanted to be blond-haired and blue-eyed. This was before Mulan, so I was very upset about all the Cinderellas. I always tried to imagine that maybe Snow White was Chinese since she had black hair.

Grace Lin

#52. I became a filmmaker because I wanted to deal with issues that intrigued me, that I thought were pertinent, that would start dialogue.

Justin Lin

#53. With all the media attention, all the love from the fans, I felt I needed to prove myself. Prove that I'm not a marketing tool, I'm not a ploy to improve attendance. Prove I can play in this league. But I've surrendered that to God. I'm not in a battle with what everybody else thinks anymore.

Jeremy Lin

#54. I won't let any of my friends become a fan. To me, you're either a friend or you're a fan. That doesn't mean my friends can't support me, because they all do, but they can't treat me differently than they would treat someone else. None of my friends are in awe of me.

Jeremy Lin

#55. I saw the Vietnam Veterans Memorial not as an object placed into the earth but as a cut in the earth that has then been polished, like a geode.

Maya Lin

#56. You have to let the viewers come away with their own conclusions. If you dictate what they should think, you've lost it.

Maya Lin

#57. Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice.

Lin Yutang

#58. You don't get respect for being an Asian-American basketball player in the U.S.

Jeremy Lin

#59. Somewhere in [China's] soul lurks the cunning of an old dog, and it is a cunning that is strangely impressive. What a strange old soul! What a great old soul!

Lin Yutang

#60. I like most any place if I have Internet access.

Tao Lin

#61. I rather despise claims to objectivity in philosophy; the point of view is the thing.

Lin Yutang

#62. Moose had no friends that year. A lot of the time a moose would feel tired and lean against other moose. Only there wouldn't be moose there and the moose would fall.

Tao Lin

#63. If I had a day to myself I would just play video games with my brothers.

Jeremy Lin

#64. The more we justify our beliefs, the more narrow-minded we become.

Lin Yutang

#65. If one's bowels move, one is happy, and if they don't move, one is unhappy. That is all there is to it.

Lin Yutang

#66. If we can't face death, we'll never overcome it. You have to look it straight in the eye. Then you can turn around and walk back out into the light.

Maya Lin

#67. The fun for me in collaboration is, one, working with other people just makes you smarter; that's proven.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

#68. In many ways, the longer I live, I understand that there are so many things outside my control. That's why I believe faith is such a big part of the story. There are so many things that were orchestrated by God, that were put into place to make this perfect storm, that created Linsanity.

Jeremy Lin

#69. The correct arrangement of words will make these bad feelings go away tonight.

Tao Lin

#70. This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.

Lin Yutang

#71. There is more hope in a heather rose than in all the tons of Teutonic philosophy.

Lin Yutang

#72. This is my dream being lived out and I'm so thankful for that.

Jeremy Lin

#73. You don't get better if you win all the time. You look at yourself more when you lose,

Jeremy Lin

#74. I don't think music affects what words I choose to type in what order, within what punctuation, at this point, because I'm rereading and editing each sentence, at this point, in my published books, probably 100-150 times each, on average, and listening to probably 20-60 different songs in that time.

Tao Lin

#75. I am not throwing away my shot.
I am not throwing away my shot.
I'm just like my country.
I'm young, scrappy, and hungry.
And I am not throwing away my shot.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

#76. Not sure if that will benefit me or hurt me, but I know I have the skills and am ready to play in the NBA regardless of my ethnicity.

Jeremy Lin

#77. Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do.

Lin Yutang

#78. All my work is much more peaceful than I am.

Maya Lin

#79. The three great American vices seem to be efficiency, punctuality, and the desire for achievement and success. They are the things that make the Americans so unhappy and so nervous.

Lin Yutang

#80. I just try to play as hard as I can every possession. If you're aware and you're high-energy, the ball will eventually bounce your way and you'll be able to make plays.

Jeremy Lin

#81. If I don't like someone and I start reading their stuff, it seems like my brain will just automatically start criticizing everything that's there. It's really hard to read a book without having all this outside information telling you what to think about it.

Tao Lin

#82. Never one to take the easy way out. Would miss out on too much.

Jeffrey Lin

#83. Just this whole journey [of life] has been a blessing from God, so for me to be here [on Earth] I'm just taking it one day at a time and really enjoying it.

Jeremy Lin

#84. 'Rent' was the show that made me want to write. Or that showed me you're allowed to write.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

#85. I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character.

Maya Lin

#86. Of all the rights of woman, the greatest is to be a mother

Lin Yutang

#87. Reality - Dreams = Animal Being Reality + Dreams = A Heart-Ache (usually called Idealism) Reality + Humor = Realism (also called Conservatism) Dreams - Humor = Fanaticism Dreams + Humor = Fantasy Reality + Dreams + Humor = Wisdom

Lin Yutang

#88. It's harder than ever to build an enduring company. As soon as a product strikes a nerve with customers, competitors emerge globally because the costs to start are so low.

Alfred Lin

#89. There are no books in this world that everybody must read, but only books that a person must read at a certain time in a given place under given circumstances and at a given period of his life.

Lin Yutang

#90. I stop wasting time on tears.
I live another fifty years.
It's not enough!

Lin-Manuel Miranda

#91. I've learned that social media and our private lives, you know, our private lives are not so private anymore, so it takes a little bit of getting used to.

Jeremy Lin

#92. Just because I had a good game doesn't change who I am,
my identity is in Christ and not in basketball, I love playing basketball and it's my job but at the same time I recognize that I'm a sinner and that's not gonna change regardless of how well I play on the court

Jeremy Lin

#93. I try not to think of myself as a person
but a metal object, built suddenly by machines in complete darkness
something impossible to hurt with a shovel

Tao Lin

#94. what she really wanted to say was, Be near me. Be near me so that I can be near you.

Amber Lin

#95. I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere.

Maya Lin

#96. Similarly, forcing your beliefs onto someone else damages your relationship. The damage may not be easy to spot at first, like tiny cracks in a wooden wheel, but it's just a matter of time before the wheel splits apart.

Derek Lin

#97. To rely on the peasants, build rural base areas and use the countryside to encircle and finally capture the cities - such was the way to victory in the Chinese revolution.

Lin Biao

#98. Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think.

Maya Lin

#99. Best behavior means the same thing as the most uncomfortable behavior.

Lin Yutang

#100. I couldn't possibly write 'Next to Normal,' but God, I can weep and watch 'Next to Normal' five times.

Lin-Manuel Miranda