Ahmie Yeung Quotes & Sayings

I used to think when I was younger and writing that each idea had a certain shape and when I started to study Greek and I found the word morphe it was for me just the right word for that, unlike the word shape in English which falls a bit short morphe in greek means the sort of plastic contours that an idea has inside your all your senses when you grasp it the first moment and it always seemed to me that a work should play out that same contour in its form. So I can't start writing something down til I get a sense of that, that morphe. And then it unfolds, I wouldn't say naturally, but it unfolds gropingly by keeping only to the contours of that form whatever it is. — Anne Carson

If you're going to choose your friends, you better choose them well, because when you look at your friends, you're looking at a mirror reflection. You're looking at you; you are looking at you. — Paul Washer

Introduction Did you know that Shakespeare wrote the world's first ever knock knock joke? — Jack Goldstein

The obvious choice isn't always the best choice, but sometimes, by golly, it is. I don't stop looking as soon I find an obvious answer, but if I go on looking, and the obvious-seeming answer still seems obvious, I don't feel guilty about keeping it. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

I cannot forget a conversation that I had with an elderly couple from the tribe. They asked me whether I would kill them after I had finished. When I asked them why they asked that, they replied, Because you white men always do! — Roland Joffe

I never thought of myself as a writer. — David E. Kelley

The greatest gift we can bring to any relationship wherever we go is being who we are. — Melody Beattie

She's wearing a ring that I bought on sale, and that makes her the property of this U.S. Male. — Jerry Reed