Ma Long Quotes

I expect to fight that proposition until hell freezes over. Then I propose to start fighting on the ice.

I'm kind of pinching myself in the morning. Like, wait, you really did pray to have a body of work that stays diversified and interesting. And I have it!

Who among us has not gazed thoughtfully and patiently at a painting of Jackson Pollock and thought "What a piece of crap?"

I wonder why he shot me.

When people discuss religion, it is a pity that they often become excited and argue. We should merely listen, as one does on a dark night; we should merely gaze at the stars.

I know how to make other women look beautiful: from hair to makeup to wardrobe. So, I feel that I have a gift with imaging, and that's kind of fundamental to the music video process.

When I meet a new person, I am on the lookout for signs of what he or she is loyal to. It is a preliminary clue to the sense of belonging, and hence of his or her humanity.

Ford Prefect suppressed a little giggle of evil satisfaction, realized that he had no reason to suppress it, and laughed out loud, a wicked laugh.

Black is not a vice. Nor is segregation a virtue.

Our leaders know we’re turning into a giant ghetto and they are taking every last hubcap they can get their hands on before the rest of us wake up and realize what’s happened.

Sometimes you don't even know what you want until you find out you can't have it.

That's creativity in a nutshell. A messy tug-of-war with imagination to erase that feeling that nothing really matters anyway.

It's and old, old story: I had a friend and we shared everything, and then she died and so we shared that, too.

I've always believed that a person is smart. It's people that are stupid.

Good shoes and a good scent make the perfect day.

I thought if I could make people laugh about how awkward I am, it'd make me less awkward. But you also realise how fun it is to make people laugh.

'What's a couple?' I asked my mum. She said, 'Two or three'. Which probably explains why her marriage collapsed

I learned there's a tremendous amount of sisterhood among Muslim women, which I thought was really beautiful.

A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man.

Rather than arriving five hours late and flustered, it would be better all around if he were to arrive five hours and a few extra minutes late, but triumphantly in command.

It was one of those pictures that children are supposed to like but don't. Full of endearing little animals doing endearing things, you know?

There was no such thing as perfection in this world, only moments of such extreme transparency that you forgot yourself, a holy mercy if there ever was one.

If you could figure out how to live with family then you'd gone a long way toward finding your peace.

I'm a bachelor in the old sense of the word, meaning I flirt, I have very many close relationships, but then I come home and like to read my book.

When your sad--like really sad--you only want to be with other people who are sad.

The years went by, and Mary Alice and I grew up, Slower than we wanted to, faster than we realized.

Getting an education is an awfully wearing process!

You're not allowed to say anything about books because they're books, and books are, you know, God.

It's much more entertaining to live books than to write them.

If the condition of grief is nearly universal, its transactions are exquisitely personal.

But then science is nothing but a series of questions that lead to more questions.

One of the grubby truths about a loss is that you don't just mourn the dead person, you mourn the person you got to be when the lost one was alive. This loss might even be what affects you the most.

The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful die young, but that they grow old and mean. It will not happen to me.

Back in my day, which was about a week and a half ago, we took our lumps and we got back up and we cried like babies and quit and then put on weight.

The thing about changing the world... Once you do it, the world's all different.

I don’t think it's weak to admit you made a mistake. That takes strength, if you ask me.

I dont believe in predestination, even though I was raised a Presbyterian.

I would love to have the ability to see inside everyone's heart before I heard them speak or even saw their faces.

It's harder to write two people happy and in love than two people fighting and driving each other crazy.

Aside from my love of animation, as an actor I like the total lack of vanity in terms of not having to worry at all about your appearance. You don't have to deal with hair or makeup or wardrobe.

Any product of the mind is a reaction of the past, a synthesis of what is old.

I've never been that technologically savvy, my friends are actually amused by how infrequently I use computers.

That got thrown out of court are what got me thrown out of school.

People who haven't done commercials, don't appreciate how hard it is.

You can't realise love or yourself until you are still enough to drop down through the restlessness and frustrations into that deeper level of your being

Truth cannot be taught but it is quickly recognised by the person ready to discover it.

All is energy and there is no energy higher than right love, which has no object

It's so easy to misuse social media as a dating tool. I think it can be useful but it's scary when you think about who can access this information and what they're doing with it.

It's definitely surreal to watch yourself in a movie.

I really felt sometimes like I was physically pulling the plot, and it was heavy. I'm sure it didn't look great that I was going into my dressing room at lunch.