David Henry Hwang M Butterfly Quotes & Sayings

This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity. — Brandon Sanderson

I've never been cocky. Even right now I don't like to talk about the Olympics. — Aly Raisman

I would say that longtime fans of the Rolling Stones will be thrilled with these results, and new fans will understand why they're the greatest rock'n'roll band in the world. — Don Was

I realized that people make cartoons for a living. It had never dawned on me that you could do this as a career. — John Lasseter

The tendency to follow the path of least resistance guarantees failure in life. — Brian Tracy

Newton invented a new form of reason. He expanded reason to handle infinitesimal changes and I think what is needed now is a similar expansion of reason to handle technological ugliness. The trouble is that the expansion has to be made at the roots, not at the branches, and that's what makes it hard to see. — Robert M. Pirsig

I used to work at The International House of Pancakes. It was a dream, and I made it happen. — Paula Poundstone

A fatalistic patience came over me. I set out the breakfast things as she dressed. I knew I reached my decision. It was as if Hap's words last night had estinguished a candle inside me. My feelings for Starling had changed that completely. We sat at table together, and she tried to make all seem as it had before, but I kept thinking "this is probably the last time I'll watch how she swirls her tea to cool it, or how she waves her bread about as she talks'. — Robin Hobb

Hearing her voice was like seeing the sun after weeks of darkness. — Jordan Silver

If you wish to ruin yourself, marry a rich wife. — Jules Michelet

Whatever his private beliefs and religious practice, a president must be the guardian of the laws which ensure America's religious diversity. — Walter F. Mondale

Many may have stopped believing in you, but God hasn't. — Anita R. Sneed-Carter

The chief requisite for the making of a good chicken pie is chicken; no amount of culinary legerdemain can make up for the lack of chicken. In the same way, the chief requisite for the history of science is intimate scientific knowledge; no amount of philosophic legerdemain can make up for its absence. — George Sarton