Wayson Choy Quotes

#1. Surely most men are destroyed, but there are others who like pillars of fire guide frightened men through the darkness.

John Steinbeck

#2. I don't believe in yesterday.

John Lennon

#3. All stories are true, Astrea. By speaking them aloud, we bring them to life. Once words mingle with breath and sound, they become something new and alive.

Hilary Thompson

#4. If we like them, they're freedom fighters, she thought. If we don't like them, they're terrorists. In the unlikely case we can't make up our minds, they're temporarily only guerrillas.

Carl Sagan

#5. Be a gentleman, Lucas. No tying her up on the first date.

Melanie Harlow

#6. There is a necessity for a regulating discipline of exercise that, whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted.

Thomas De Quincey

#7. When you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance.

Lee Ann Womack

#8. Heroes take journeys, confront dragons, and discover the treasure of their true selves.

Carol Lynn Pearson

#9. Now what else is the whole life of mortals, but a sort of comedy in which the various actors, disguised by various costumes and masks, walk on and play each ones part until the manager walks them off the stage?

Desiderius Erasmus

#10. Gaze no more in the bitter glass
The demons, with their subtle guile,
Lift up before us when they pass,
Or only gaze a little while ...

William Butler Yeats

#11. Yes, yes," Gee Sook said. "Look how Jung stands like a man today.

Wayson Choy

#12. Now is the perfect time to make powerful change-your willingness is at an all-time high.

Gabrielle Bernstein

#13. Clothes are designed for the media, because it's a great show.

Oleg Cassini

#14. Fame infantilises and grants relative impunity. Those that seek it, out of an exaggerated need for admiration or attention, are often the least well equipped to deal with criticism.

Jemima Khan

#15. While we played, Meiying often sat by herself on the bench, huddled against the chill, looking at the library books on her lap, the pages glowing under the street lamp. The pages would sometimes turn in the wind, but she did not notice.

Wayson Choy