Quan Quotes & Sayings

It's super cloudy right now but I think I can see the northern lights from my room. Another observation: Every light is a strobe light, if you just blink fast enough, and drink enough vodka.
-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz — Karen Quan

My heart beats so hard, I feel like I have an earthquake inside of me. It's weighing me down and my hands shake with the need of safety and comfort. — Karen Quan

I have always wanted to give you the world, so I started giving you pieces of the oceans that kept us apart. — Karen Quan

Jin Quan laughed. Samantha laughed too trying to find her lost dignity — Cyci Cade

If your glass is half empty, fill it up to be full. — Karen Quan

You may return and tell Sun Quan to wash his neck: the executioner is coming. — Luo Guanzhong

How complex, untrustworthy, and important our stories are. We will never tell you the true story of our lives. — Andy Quan

I'll use the blood from my spilling heart to write the words that were never able to slip out of my mouth, so you can see how much you've broken me into a perpetual state of melancholy. — Karen Quan

An obedient man is free when in prison," Quan said. "A disobedient man is imprisoned when free. — Randy Alcorn

As a kid, I always wanted to be like Spielberg and to make wonderful movies. Even when I was making 'Indiana Jones,' I was looking at how he would come up with these amazing shots and how he would choreograph the blocking and all that. So I knew from early on I would go to film school and try to work behind the camera. — Jonathan Ke Quan

Love is a battle with yourself. Be kind and love yourself before you love anyone else. — Karen Quan

When your heart starts to feel full again. I love FREE refills, and if a restaurant tries to double charge me, I refuse to write a love poem on their Yelp page.
-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz — Karen Quan

Developing Inner Strength Through the Quan (Kata) Eliminate external distractions and concentrate only upon intention. Coordinate breathing and synchronize it with the muscular activity. When you extend your arm, exhale and strike but conserve 50% of your air. Be sure never to expel all of your air at one time. When you inhale, your body becomes light. When you exhale, your body becomes rooted. Listen to your breathing and become aware of every part of your body. There must be a constant but pliable muscular contraction in the deltoid, trapezius, latissimus dorsi, serratus, and pectoral muscle groups. To encourage perfect diaphragm breathing, the spine must be parallel to the stomach. Techniques are executed forward and back from where the elbows meet the waist. — Patrick McCarthy

The only thing I didn't like as a kid was I was required to do a minimum of 3 hours of schoolwork every day, and there was a tutor on set. — Jonathan Ke Quan

You're gone and you left me. My heart has dissipated. The only thing I can feel is the blood rushing through my veins and the strings that hold my fragile heart together. — Karen Quan

I'm gonna go put my earplugs in and practice piano for hours until my fingers bleed. I practice the piano with the focus of Helen Keller - and nothing can distract me from the scent of the music.
-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz — Karen Quan

I always loved acting, but when you get older and you're going through adolescence, the roles are limited. — Jonathan Ke Quan

When you're reaching the end of the semester and you just wanna die. Coffin Making 101 is literally killing me.
-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz — Karen Quan

Be drunk in love and high on life. — Karen Quan

This girl who's slept a hundred years has something after all. It's called Centuryitis, and it has turned me into a man. Oh, what will mamma think when she sees me?!
-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz — Karen Quan

You have had me spinning for days, for I am drunk off the words that flow endlessly from your deep red lips that taste of wine. — Karen Quan

Some people hate the rain, other appreciate it for the blooming flowers. — Karen Quan

LI QUAN Overcome your opponent by calculation. — Anonymous

Keeping busy is the hardest part. When I find myself still, clear of thoughts, I can still feel you holding me. — Karen Quan

Love enough to end a war. — Karen Quan

When my hands can no longer make these hammers and strings play for you, my heart will always sing to you. — Karen Quan

LI QUAN If they ply you with expensive gifts and sweet talk, they are up to something. — Sun Tzu

One dead and one alone. That's how the story ends. — Karen Quan

My name Quan. Quan Nguyen. This Kim-Ly, wife. We next door. Do nails. We with Mr. Blaylock. He fight, we fight. We come here from Viet Nam. This good country, but sometimes, good people in good country have to fight. — Dan Groat

How beautiful would it be if we could just see souls instead of bodies? To see love and compassion instead of curves. — Karen Quan

Be strong enough to move mountains. — Karen Quan

I'll put you in a jar on my shelf for a cold, rainy day when I need you the most. — Karen Quan

Push my buttons, and I'll push you off a bridge. — Karen Quan

Sometimes, if we are faced with obstacles, be they tangible or not, such as jealousy, worldly sentiment, greed, hatred or obsession, etc., there is no other way to overcome them except by practicing more diligently. You need to read Master's books and to listen to Master's tapes more often, meditate more, do Quan Yin more, put more effort into your practice and concentrate more on the path of practice. It is safe only when you are sheltered by the supreme power, no other way. — Ching Hai

Karma is like the vine that gathers strength through uninterrupted years, and which fastens its tendrils so closely that it is as strong as the structure to which it adheres. There is no way to destroy its power except by the separation of the parts, these parts renew themselves in other forms of life, but the structure is freed when its root is destroyed. — William Quan Judge

I miss you like the mismatching sock I can't find. You're out there somewhere. — Karen Quan

Underwater madness slipping into a haze, drowning and choking in repugnant nostalgic thoughts. — Karen Quan

Only by spiritual practice can we break through our karma and the effects of the causes we have made. Only then can we escape from them. It matters not whether you have acquired any merit. Merit is merit. Karma is karma. Nonetheless, if one practices the Quan Yin Method, one can be liberated regardless of having any merit or not. It is so logical, so scientific. — Ching Hai

And what happens if we don't remember? What happens if we never knew? Too many of us are here in the dark because in the rush and clamor of blood the third reptilian brain takes over, the one that says I do not recognize anything of myself in you, and so you are less than nothing. — Quan Barry

Some of us walk around with a necklace of hope, an armour of sanity, but at the end of the day, they always come off. We reveal our naked, vulnerable, real selves. — Karen Quan

[Author's Note: Barbara Hand Clow gives a much more detailed description and story about the photon band and the cosmological changes in dimensional relationships we are undergoing in her latest book, The Pleiadian Agenda: A New Cosmology for the Age of Light.] — Amorah Quan Yin

Touch with your heart more than with your hands. — Karen Quan

I hate when I'm not done with my cup but my mom decides to put it in the dishwasher anyway and the cup isn't dishwasher safe. I keep telling my mom that my origami coffee mugs are hand wash ONLY. Handshakes are also hand wash only.
-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz — Karen Quan

You know, I met a wise man centuries ago in China who said to me, 'He who lets fear rule him, has fear for a master. (Acheron)
Confucius? (Talon)
No, Minh-Quan. He was a fisherman who used to sell what I'm told was the best zong zi ever made. (Acheron) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Look up, always. Look back, never. — Karen Quan

I really hate that I need my glasses while using my laptop. What I hate even more is that I need those glasses to be full of vodka at all times.
-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz — Karen Quan

My doctors asked what was wrong when they found me pale faced and lifeless. I told them I spent an immense amount of time stuDYING. — Karen Quan

I wear a necklace of hope with pearly beads. When I met you, it broke, and the beads spilled all over the floor, into the gutters. — Karen Quan

The moment Quan crossed a line with me, I'd have to shut him down, but either he hadn't crossed one yet or my lines weren't where I thought they were. — Lola Dodge

You've left me with a kaleidoscope of broken smiles and shattered dreams. — Karen Quan

Do you ever think of me when you look up at the moon and the stars? When you look into the horizon as the sun sets? We're looking at the same sun, and the stars may burn brighter where you are, but I can't see them, and they're still there. I spend nights trying to see the stars that you see, but I end up seeing you in the stars instead. — Karen Quan

I think the word 'love' should be used sparingly and truthfully. — Andy Quan

You know what truly aches? Having so much inside you and not having the slightest clue of how to pour it out. — Karen Quan

It's very surreal. It seems like everywhere I go, people always talk about 'Indiana Jones,' and I realized over the years it has made a huge impact on their childhoods ... I feel very fortunate to be a part of this. — Jonathan Ke Quan

Life is great, and without it, you'd be dead. — Karen Quan

You be the sun, I'll be the moon, let's share the stars and dance in the sky. — Karen Quan

I had a dream that I saw shooting stars with you. Two things that will come close to never happening: Seeing shooting stars, and being with you. — Karen Quan

I was born at the age of five. I know this because I don't remember anything else before that. — Michaela McGuire

My heart is burning a hole in my chest and every time you speak to me, it keeps sinking, and I'm left with nothing but ashes. I wish she were talking to me, because the more she speaks to me, the more my heart flutters like a rising phoenix.
-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz — Karen Quan

Don't come yet, boy! You betta hold onto God's unchanging hand! You betta hold yo mule while you shout! — Quan Millz

To the worldy man Karma is a stern Nemesis, to the spiritual man Karma unfolds itself in harmony with his highest aspirations. — William Quan Judge

These days, I'm finding it harder and harder to breathe. My chest pounds with every heart beat like you're here, again, standing in front of me, your two hands around my neck. — Karen Quan

We'll meet again, but you're a lifetime away, and I need you now. — Karen Quan

His name was Mr. Quan and he was the concierge, which explained the black suit and the lavender shirt but not the oversized bow tie in chrome-yellow silk. Perhaps nothing could. — Carsten Stroud

I can't save you unless you save me, too. — Karen Quan