Mr Chang Community Quotes & Sayings

I've always felt alone and isolated, and living on the West Coast, there's no poetry community out here, and if there is, it's really spread out - because it's LA, it's spread out. — Victoria Chang

The first initial feeling, at least for me, was to go out and play well and hopefully win and have the Asian community be even more proud. — Michael Chang

I love when I meet generous poets, and generous meaning nice people, who give to the poetry community, who do interviews, read other people's books, and talk about them, spread the ... love, I guess. That means a lot to me. — Victoria Chang

There was something alike terrifying and piteous in the spectacle of these frail old morsels of humanity consecrating their last flickering energies to the task of making each other wretched. Hatred seemed to be the one faculty which had survived in undiminished vigor where all else was dropping into ordered and symmetrical decay. — Saki

Reimagine a way communities can be rebuilt. — Candy Chang

I don't generally listen to music while working, but sometimes music can help me get past minor writer's block. — David Liss

When I first used this move on my nine-year-old brother, he started to cry and exclaimed that I was cheating. — Maxen Tarafa

The world is run by those who show up. — Donald Rumsfeld

I really wanted to get to the animal core of rock music and eliminate anything that wasn't necessary. — Michael Gira

I am surrounded here by parsons and methodists, but as you will see, not infested with the mania. — Lord Byron

Friendships are forgotten when the game begins. — Alvin Dark

Every moment, every breath, is a new opportunity. An opportunity to let go of the past and to become the person you choose to be. — John Bruna

In our world, we have so many ways we can escape with technology, like TV, Facebook, computers, text messaging and all that. — Mia Wasikowska

Sorrow for not understanding like I understand now the unpredictable, profound journey that marriage is. — Ruby Dee

Obviously the Asian American community wants you to do well. They are cheering you on no matter what the circumstances. — Michael Chang

It's going to be okay. That's what everyone says when they really have no idea how it's going to be. — Avery Sawyer

In therapy, the therapist acts as a container for what we daren't let out, because it is so scary, or what lets itself out every so often, and lays waste to our lives. — Jeanette Winterson

We grow up with this idea that we're all individual agents. We work, make our money, have our place to live and our satellite TV. But whether you like it or not, you need family or community. — Chang-rae Lee

Without Greece, it is not possible to preserve the integrity of the European phenomenon. — Evangelos Venizelos

The river of truth is always splitting up into arms that reunite. Islanded between them, the inhabitants argue for a lifetime as to which is the mainstream. — Cyril Connolly

[A community chalkboard is] about knowing you're not alone. It's about understanding our neighbors in new and enlightening ways. — Candy Chang

We had two goals ... One was to cherish every moment together, cherish the journey because the journey allows you to learn and grow. The other was to win a gold medal. — Kerri Walsh