Lin Quotes

If you don't remember history accurately, how can you learn?

But there was nothing I could do with the emotion really. It just went away after a while.

For the most part things never get built the way they were drawn.

A solemn funeral is inconceivable to the Chinese mind.

I was playing garbage minutes the first two to three weeks. There was definitely a little bit of 'what's going on?' in my prayers.

My family used to call me an oversized kid and I think that's pretty accurate in some ways.

My first dunk ever was in middle school. We were playing, me and my church friends, and I dunked it, and I swear I could not sleep that night.

People started saying, 'Oh you know, he's quicker than he looks', and I'm like, 'What does that mean? Do I look slow, or I'm not really sure what that means.

You have to be wired a certain way to be a professional basketball player, and the way my body grew, something happened genetically that allowed me to become a lot more explosive.

I would be a pastor. It is something I think about doing when my playing days are over.

I'm not like the next Michael Jordan, but I'm also not what everyone saw me as before I started playing in the NBA, either.

I'm going to be honest, playing in D-League games is tough.

I just want people to respect the privacy of my relatives in Taiwan. ... They need to live their lives as well.

Not sure if that will benefit me or hurt me, but I know I have the skills and am ready to play in the NBA regardless of my ethnicity.

I speak Mandarin and can read and write a little. I took a few classes at Harvard to get better in my reading and writing skills.

I absolutely would not have liked playing in Spain or somewhere like that, so I was just gonna do it a year. Then I was gonna be done.

With pro-gaming that's one of the toughest parts - living game to game.

I think ultimately that sense of hope is something that even as a little kid I was able to kind of grab onto.

For groups like the Rolling Stones names like Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf were exotic inspirations. For Siegel-Schwall they were the guys that played with them on 43rd Street.

I may be the only actress in Hollywood who won't need a face lift, because when I take off my makeup, I look so great compared to my characters!

We (the Chinese) eat food for its texture, the elastic or crisp effect it has on our teeth, as well as for fragrance, flavor and color.

The fonder you are of your ideals, the greater your heartbreaks.

The greater success a man has made, the more he fears a climb down.

Any good practical philosophy must start out with the recognition of our having a body.

An educated man is one who has the loves and hatreds together.

Creative work carries with it a form of intense love.

As for international understanding, I feel that macaroni has done more for our appreciation of Italy than Mussolini.

Art is both creation and recreation. Of the two ideas, I think art as recreation or as sheer play of the human spirit is more important.

A vague uncritical idealism always lends itself to ridicule and too much of it might be a danger to mankind, leading it round in a futile wild-goose chase for imaginary ideals.

I am put on my best behavior, which means the same thing as the most uncomfortable behavior.

A cocktail party is a place where you talk with a person you do not know about a subject you have no interest in.

All human happiness is sensuous happiness.

There is more hope in a heather rose than in all the tons of Teutonic philosophy.

And if the reader has no taste for what he reads, all the time is wasted

The end of living is the true enjoyment of it.

The only part of Christian teachings which will be truly accepted by the Chinese people is Christ's injunction to be "harmless as doves" but "wise as serpents.

When we demand liberty of a person as a constitutional right, we are taking away from the officials their liberty to chop off people's heads.

Nobody is ever misunderstood at a fireside; he may only be disagreed with.

Somewhere in [China's] soul lurks the cunning of an old dog, and it is a cunning that is strangely impressive. What a strange old soul! What a great old soul!

The human mind is a curious thing. It can take just so much and no more.

China is the greatest mystifying and stupefying fact in the modern world.

He who is afraid to use an "I" in his writing will never make a good writer.

Once [China] had a destiny. Once she was a conqueror. Now her greatest destiny seems to be merely to exist, to survive.

By association with nature's enormities, a man's heart may truly grow big also.

The dog which remembers only to bark and not to bite, and is led through the streets as a lady's pet, is only a degenerate wolf.

Of the many rights of ladies, the best should be to be considered a mother.

I had friends who only listened to hip-hop. I had friends who only listened to musicals, and I stood proudly in the middle.

No one wants to hear me crooning a ballad.

I probably shouldn't brag, but dag I amaze and astonish.

With every word, I drop knowledge.