Maxine Hong Kingston Quotes

The difference between mad people and sane people... is that sane people have variety when they talk-story. Mad people have only one story that they talk over and over.

Maxine Hong Kingston

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 27, 1940

Topics

PeopleStoryMadTalkOverVariety

Basically, I'm motivated to write about sociopolitical issues as well as relationships. I think those themes have stayed with me throughout my life.

Jimmy Cliff

LifeMeThinkMy LifeRelationships

I think with 'Strictly,' people don't want you to do badly. They're willing you to do well.

Robert Rinder

PeopleThinkYouWantWellWilling

The longer I lived overseas, the more I appreciated being from South Africa.

St. Lucia

AfricaMoreAppreciatedLivedBeing

My height was not a deterrent, and it did not make me the person I am. It was like my long brown hair or my brown eyes - a physical characteristic that differentiated me from quite a percentage of the population.

Sinead Burke

EyesI AmMeHairLongPerson

My colleagues and I were engineers who worked for DCM's calculator division. These electronic calculators used digital integrated circuits, and then they started using chips. The advanced versions of those chips were used for programmable calculators, which were the forerunners of PCs.

Shiv Nadar

ColleaguesEngineersDigitalDivision

I'm on my boat, training, rehearsing; I spend all my energy on the job that's coming up, and I found that's the way that works for me. The more energy you have on set, the better you'll be; it's all about being alive in that moment and listening.

Rory McCann

MomentJobTrainingMeEnergyBoat

We are sold the idea of a refugee as a tiny child sitting crying, as a way of raising money, but elderly ladies and kids largely can't move. The demographic is mostly young men.

Mary Beard

MoneyMenChildYoungSittingWay

That DMC Act is a disgrace. And the problem with independent art in this country is that independent artists have been economically blacklisted.

Lloyd Kaufman

ArtProblemCountryIndependentAct

I think, for a lot of people, men or women, it's easy to have things not affect you because, it doesn't affect you. So to be a better ally, you have to look at it as if it's someone you know instead of this abstract person you've never met.

Jonathan Van Ness

WomenMenPeopleThinkBetterLook

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

Denis Waitley

ExperienceMistakesYearsPainful

In my books and in romance as a genre, there is a positive, uplifting feeling that leaves the reader with a sense of encouragement and hope for a brighter future - or a brighter present.

Debbie Macomber

PositiveFutureHopePresentFeeling

I went to Norman High then I walked across the street after that and went to college. That's my home town, that's where I'm from. Physically I'm a Texan, but I'm an Oklahoman.

Christian Kane

HomeCollegeStreetHighWhereTown

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