Zhihua Dong Quotes

#1. You are capable of more than you ever thought.

Richard Machowicz

#2. Movies have takes. But plays are like life - you don't really get takes.

Chris Rock

#3. Writing is both an act of power and surrender. Passion and discovery. It is a tug at your soul that continues to pull you forward, even as you go kicking and screaming. (p.18)

Laraine Herring

#4. It is a risk to love.
What if it doesn't work out?
Ah, but what if it does.

Peter McWilliams

#5. I think that the United States has always been most effective when it is leading both from power and principle.

Condoleezza Rice

#6. You will have a choice: to adjust how you live daily or to stay the same.

Francis Chan

#7. I don't mind sacrifice. I don't mind discipline. But a good coach allows people to blossom. I've seen that. I didn't have it.

Dominique Moceanu

#8. You can really do amazing things in a wheelchair. It's very dangerous if you don't know what you're doing, but you can even go up and down stairs in a wheelchair.

William Forsythe

#9. We often cause ourselves suffering by wanting only to live in a world of valleys, a world without struggle and difficulty, a world that is flat, plain, consistent.

Bell Hooks

#10. Being with Demetri wasn't the absence of pain, it was the added presence of peace, making it easier and easier for that little part of my heart to heal again.
From Pull: A Seaside Novel

Rachel Van Dyken

#11. I wanted to like booze more than I actually did (which is more or less the precise opposite of how I felt about Alaska)

John Green

#12. It [the rocket] will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.

Wernher Von Braun

#13. Without a revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement.

Vladimir Lenin

#14. Writing isn't just a job that stops at six thirty ... It's a mad, sexy, sad, scary, ruthless, joyful, and utterly, utterly personal thing. There's not the writer and then me; there's just me. All of my life connects to the writing. All of it.

Russell T. Davies

#15. My music is based on melody and when I play the piano, it's as if I'm singing with them. When you try to transform that into a vocal, there was very little adjustment.

Yanni