Vuong H C D Quotes

#1. As part of my relationship with my wife and my daughter, and we share everything and talk about everything.

Boris Kodjoe

#2. I didn't know the cost
of entering a song - was to lose
your way back.

Ocean Vuong

#3. When they ask you where you're from, tell them your name was fleshed from the toothless mouth of a war-woman. That you were not born but crawled, headfirst - into the hunger of dogs. My son, tell them the body is a blade that sharpens by cutting.

Ocean Vuong

#4. In order for things to change, YOU MUST change. If you don't change, then nothing will change. IF you will change, EVERYTHING will change for you.

Duc Vuong

#5. She's clearly gone too long without male companionship if any brute who walked her way made her sit up and take notice.

Cari Quinn

#6. Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense.

Stephen Jay Gould

#7. Don't we touch each other just to prove we are still here? I was still here once. The

Ocean Vuong

#8. Language excites me. Irrational thought excites me. I spend most of my time listening instead of writing. A shard of language might come: a phrase, a word, an anagram, and I'd just keep it in my pocket, like a little seed, warming in my fist.

Ocean Vuong

#9. Attacking is better than defending.

Pham Nhat Vuong

#10. Your father is only your father
until one of you forgets. Like how the spine
won't remember its wings
no matter how many times our knees
kiss the pavement. Ocean,
are you listening? The most beautiful part
of your body is wherever
your mother's shadow falls.

Ocean Vuong

#11. Dear God, if you are a season, let it be the one I passed through
to get here.

Here. That's all I wanted to be.

I promise.

Ocean Vuong

#12. Vietnamese are very similar to the Chinese. They just can't sit on gold bars underneath their beds. Eventually, they will pull out their gold bars and invest.

Pham Nhat Vuong

#13. We want to bring better products to Vietnam. My hope is through changes in lifestyle and the products we consume, it will affect the people and change the way they are thinking.

Pham Nhat Vuong

#14. what becomes of the shepherd / when the sheep are cannibals?

Ocean Vuong

#15. You try to walk in the light.

Marie Lu

#16. I think you can be smart and directed and focused, without being obnoxious, and get plenty done.

Bill De Blasio

#17. I think any artist that's going to become anything in this world faces humility: with great humility comes great success.

Yelawolf

#18. Sometimes I ask for too much just to feel my mouth overflow.

Ocean Vuong

#19. How sweet. That rain. How something that lives only to fall can be nothing but sweet.

Ocean Vuong

#20. I'm active even on bad days; it's tough to pin me down. People ask me if I'm a morning or night person. I'm an all-the-time person. I like drinking coffee, but I do it with lots of milk because my energy levels are high even without caffeine. You could call me Obelix, except I don't have a belly.

Bipasha Basu

#21. Confetti
green, how I want you green.
Green despite the red despite
the rest.

Ocean Vuong

#22. When I read in Fortune magazine that Warren Buffet, the billionaire investor and one of the world's richest men, was investing in a direct sales (network marketing) company, I decided I was missing something.

David Bach

#23. When our lips touched the day closed
into a coffin. In the museum of the heart...

Ocean Vuong

#24. Hunter and I never got proper journalistic accreditation to go anywhere. Nobody was giving us passes to go in here or there. We always had to somehow talk our way in.

Ralph Steadman

#25. When I was pink and clean I crawled into bed and pretended I was at Disney World.

Janet Evanovich

#26. The most beautiful part of your body
is where it's headed. & remember,
loneliness is still time spent
with the world.

Ocean Vuong