Lin Quotes

I'm as much interested in the form-making as well as getting you to think about what we're doing to the world around us.

We were unusually brought up; there was no gender differentiation. I was never thought of as any less than my brother.

It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public.

My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar.

I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere.

My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.

Competitions are what you do as a good exercise.

Poetry has roots, but they are sometimes cut off and still poetry is written.

At a certain point, the struggles with teaching and mothering and so on and so forth, those decline, those lessen.

I'm in my 60s, and a cancer scare just makes you more aware of mortality.

Working women went through a time when they believed that.

[My muse] she's impatient with me, because I don't do what I should do: sit down and write.

I don't know how to incorporate regret. But I'll say, like, "It affected me that way," "I learned this," "Next time maybe I'll do it differently".

Matt would stare at Andrew for 10 minutes. It's depressing that people are different. Everyone should be one person, who should then kill itself in hand-to-hand combat.

If you make happy those that are near, those that are far will come.

That is a question you have to ask the Old Man of the Moon.

I just try to make sure that when I get there on the floor, I play as hard as I can and try to do everything I can to help the team win.

I just try to play as hard as I can every possession. If you're aware and you're high-energy, the ball will eventually bounce your way and you'll be able to make plays.

I have an economics degree with a minor in sociology. The reason I have that is because I want to do a ministry in urban areas and help with underprivileged kids.

I just think in order for someone to understand my game, they have to watch me more than once, because I'm not going to do anything that's extra flashy or freakishly athletic.

It is very important to support what you believe in.

There's an anxiety of wanting to please the studios. You want to prove to them that you can do it and sometimes you might jump at a project that you're not totally passionate about.

If you put forth a really diverse cast and you fight for it and it doesn't do well - and it may fail for other reasons - you're gone because you stuck your neck out for that decision.

I just kind of do my thing with sort of tunnel vision for the story and my role and how it fits together.

The more we justify our beliefs, the more narrow-minded we become.

The most bewildering thing about man is his idea of work and the amount of work he imposes upon himself, or civilization has imposed upon him. All nature loafs, while man alone works for a living.

Men resort to talking only when they haven't the power to enforce their convictions upon others.

Business men who are busy the whole day and immediately go to bed after supper, snoring like cows, are not likely to contribute anything to culture.

Few men who have liberated themselves from the fear of God and the fear of death are yet able to liberate themselves from the fear of man.

Now it is characteristic of play that one plays without reason and there must be no reason for it. Play is its own good reason.

O wise humanity, terribly wise humanity! How inscrutable is the civilization where men toil and work and worry their hair gray to get a living and forget to play!

The problem is I got a lot of brains but no polish.

Once George Washington said, "I have to step down the so the country can move on."

Lamplighters are the guys who manually turned on all the street lamps in London and turned them off. That was the gig in the 1930s in London.

I saw the Vietnam Veterans Memorial not as an object placed into the earth but as a cut in the earth that has then been polished, like a geode.

Agency over one's sexual self - and the articulation of that kind of agency - might seem transgressive to readers who don't expect it in a woman's text.

Free verse is chained in sentence-to-sentence links and breaks free in line breaks.

Now that I'm more middle class, I have access to consumer goods. I do enjoy feminine frippery, feminine doo-da, stuff like that.

With so many brothers, I could always find a pair of shorts to borrow and run around in.

Life has never died, which is something that I think people ignore.

We have been sitting here all night bullshitting and we still don’t know what to do.

My best career decision was probably not giving up when I wanted to. God as well as my family and friends were there for me during my toughest times.

The blind pursuit of learning leads to excessive desires—the more you see, the more you want. Excessive desires, in turn, lead to anxiety and misery.

Channel your passion into lasting results

Whenever I see her, we laugh enough to last for the month. She's my best friend, and someday when we're old enough I'm going to talk her into staying here forever.

In rock & roll heaven, there ARE drum solos, but only the drummers can hear them.

It is that unoccupied space which makes a room habitable, as it is our leisure hours which make life endurable.

The age calls for simple statements and restatements of simple truths. The prophets of doom are involved, those who would bring light must be clear.

I am not throwing away my shot.

My rhymes are gonna kill, so I suggest you write your will and leave your [expletive] to me.