Dureen Truong Quotes & Sayings

Your eyes flash like Fourth-of-July sparklers, headlights on a mountain road, sparks in a short-circuited toaster. — Dennis Vickers

Craziness, indeed. And — J.R. Ward

Nothing's funnier to me than laughing at myself. — Phil McGraw

That values are always relative to time and place is the stand taken by Indian philosophy. And even their acceptance might be more theoretical than practical. For example, genocide is now recognized as an international crime and yet it is still committed and connived at. The great saint Tukaram admonished that 'Slaves be treated as kindly as one's own children'. A modern man instead of admiring the compassion behind this statement would be indignantly pointing out how Tukaram condoned a society which allowed a man to possess slaves! — Irawati Karve

Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful. — William Hurt

It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction. — Yusef Komunyakaa

You will never know who you truly are until you can find a quiet place to sit and think. A place where you can get lost in hopes of finding yourself — Callie

I love theaters. I love the event of going there and seeing a movie with a lot of people. I like the community coming around the story. — Willem Dafoe

James Watt patented his steam engine on the eve of the American Revolution, consummating a relationship between coal and the new Promethean spirit of the age, and humanity made its first tentative steps into an industrial way of life that would, over the next two centuries, forever change the world. — Jeremy Rifkin