Lin Quotes

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

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.

True peace of mind comes from accepting the worst. Psychologically, I think it means a release of energy.

I'm not playing to prove anything to anybody.

To fly, we have to have resistance. It's all about turbulence. Reacting to images of wave patterns in fluid motion.

New formalism is writing with language as flow, like the flow from a dam, running through a desert that has had no rain for decades.

Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist.

I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination.

I've always been a target. Everyone looks me and says, 'I'm not going to let that Asian kid embarrass me. I'm going to go at him.' That's how it's been my whole life.

I am the epitome of coolness.

Such is human psychology that if we don't express our joy, we soon cease to feel it.

You were one person alive and your brain was encased in a skull. There were other people out there. It took effort to be connected.

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

One word from Chairman Mao is worth ten thousand from others. His every statement is truth. We must carry out those we that understand as well as those we don't.

Stuff about me dating Kim Kardashian - I have no idea where that came from and all these other rumors. I don't think I'm that type.

When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.

The best that we can hope for in this life is that we shall not have sons and grandsons of whom we need to be ashamed.

The only test of a soul's salvation is its inward happiness.

Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination.

Only friendship which can stand occasional plain speaking is worth having.

It is important that man dreams, but it is perhaps equally important that he can laugh at his own dreams.

If you know the voice you're writing for it's such a shortcut. It's such a catalyst to creating the kind of energy you want.

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.

I loved school. I studied like crazy. I was a Class A nerd.

Math, it's a puzzle to me. I love figuring out puzzles.

Some artists want to confront. Some want to invoke thought. They're all necessary and they're all valid.

note the similarities with buddhism a buddhist who has achieved nirvana is not sad primarily because it does not know the concept of sad [...]

Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.

If you cast an all-white movie and it doesn't do well, no one will say it's because you had an all-white cast.

I liked writing the negative ads more than - because it's more minor chords.

Everything is divisible. And so is this colossus of U.S. imperialism. It can be split up and defeated.

The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.

A tendency to fly too straight at a goal, instead of circling around it, often carries one too far.

All women's dresses, in every age and country, are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.

No child is born with a really cold heart, and it is only in proportion as we lose that youthful heart that we lose the inner warmth in ourselves.

Simplicity is the outward sign and symbol of depth of thought.

Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to do.

All I know is that if God loves me only half as much as my mother does, he will not send me to Hell.

It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action.

Life is too short to make an over-serious business out of it.

I feel like style is like accent. You don't hear it on yourself, and then everyone's like, man, you got a strong accent.

I will lay down my life if it sets us free.

The reason I make that distinction cassette before CD is you have to listen to it in the order in which I've curated it for you. You know, side A to side B is our act break.

Nothing matters to a man who says nothing matters.

Your imagination will create many friends

Taking the entire globe, if North America and Western Europe can be called the 'cities of the world', then Asia, Africa and Latin America constitute 'the rural areas of the world'.

As I grew older - and even when I was younger - it had puzzled me why I continued and continue to be heterosexual.

I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. American adolescence was a lot wilder than I would have felt comfortable with.

Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have.

Study Chairman Mao's writings, follow his teachings and act according to his instructions.