Jiyong Hong Quotes & Sayings

The trouble with talking about irony is, it's such a slippery thing that the second you start talking about it, you're a better example of it than you are an analyst. — Daniel Handler

Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else. — Ray Bradbury

As the skipping rope hit the pavement, so did the ball. As the rope curved over the head of the jumping child, the child with the ball caught the ball. Down came the ropes. Down came the balls. Over and over again. Up. Down. All in rhythm. All identical. Like the houses. Like the paths. Like the flowers — Madeleine L'Engle

When I'm writing a song, I'm just making stuff up as I go along. — John Darnielle

Basketball is like Religion. Many attend but few understand. — Scott Skiles

Drama read to oneself is never drama at its best, and is not even drama as it should be. — George Pierce Baker

(Some girl) "You said we'd have breakfast!"
(Jasper) "If i live, i'll buy you waffles."
"You don't have enough money to buy her waffles," Wylan grumbled.
"Be quite. We're in a library. — Leigh Bardugo

Two autumns and I have not changed enough. — Saul Williams

Some people's lives seem to flow in a narrative; mine had many stops and starts. That's what trauma does. It interrupts the plot. You can't process it because it doesn't fit with what came before or what comes afterward. A friend of mine, a soldier, put it this way. In most of our lives, most of the time, you have a sense of what is to come. There is a steady narrative, a feeling of "lights, camera, action" when big events are imminent. But trauma isn't like that. It just happens, and then life goes on. No one prepares you for it. — Jessica Stern