Yanjun Li Quotes

#1. Like the watermen who advance forward while they look backward.

Michel De Montaigne

#2. She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer out of the windows of her eyes and that is very frightening.

Angela Carter

#3. How was I to be a scientist, father Lion?' Science is knowing. What could I have known? Others always did the knowing, knew what was in me, what should come out of me, what was best for me. I didn't know who I was, what I wanted. I know less now, and I am afraid.

Russell Hoban

#4. We strain hardest for things which are almost, but now quite within reach.

Frederick William Faber

#5. I really would not call myself a fashion icon. I would call myself somebody who gets dressed by professionals ... I would call me more of a monkey.

Jennifer Lawrence

#6. It's taken us 10 years, and it was constant excitement. I was constantly shocked by how evil he could be. Mao was very, very shrewd but he didn't have human feeling.

Jung Chang

#7. I don't like seeing you cry. You will stop." I'll give you a promise," he said gruffly. "And then you will cease your worrying." You will have confidence in my ability to protect you," he ordered. You will have faith in me. I command it.

Julie Garwood

#8. He put his finger guns away. He should not be allowed to carry weapons of mass humiliation.

T.J. Klune

#9. Did you learn to whisper in a sawmill?

Cormac McCarthy

#10. The car was full of unhappy people heading west. It was the Great American Family Road Trip, all right. Whaaa-hoo!

Kim Harrison

#11. A forced silence is a dangerous imposter, painting a canvas of safety while plotting our demise.

Jo Ann Fore

#12. I'm sure some people will say, 'Why do this?' And my response is, 'Why wouldn't you?' The film business in general is using a model that is outdated and, worse than that, inefficient.

Steven Soderbergh

#13. All dogs love God. They're wiser than their masters.

Jack Kerouac

#14. You have more potential in you than you can possibly use up in an entire lifetime or even in several lifetimes. Stop making up excuses and believing in limits.

David Cameron Gikandi

#15. There are very few great poets in the world.

Tahar Ben Jelloun