David Wong Quotes

After being raised as an evangelical Christian, I for years assumed that Christianity was the default - there were Christians, and then there were weirdos. I was shocked when, in college, I found that some people get offended when you tell them, for instance, that their recovery from surgery was a 'miracle.'

David Wong

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Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 10, 1975

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PeopleCollegeChristianYouMiracle

Everyone looks so much better when they smile.

Jimmy Fallon

SmileBetterLooksEveryoneMuch

There's an air of mystery around the Masons, but the reality is that they're mostly a bunch of veterans getting drunk in a lodge that they've built to look like a temple. It's just a bunch of guys trying to get away from their wives.

Jimmy Kimmel

RealityMysteryTryingDrunkLook

I don't mind doing the Who tours when they come along but I want to get out there and play.

John Entwistle

MindDoingPlayWantOutGet

Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.

Stephen Jay Gould

LifeOpportunityHopeScienceLying

My mother's brother, my uncle, was an actor, quite well known in the West End. He used to come over to our house, and he and I would put on performances for my family. From that, this love of performing and acting grew.

Sonoya Mizuno

FamilyLoveMotherBrotherEndOver

I studied international relations in England, and I wanted to pursue higher education and be able to analyze what was going on in Iran politically, not only in Iran, but in the Middle East.

Shohreh Aghdashloo

EducationHigher EducationMiddle

I have been a scientist for more than 40 years, having studied at Cambridge and Harvard. I researched and taught at Cambridge University, was a research fellow of the Royal Society, and have more than 80 publications in peer-reviewed journals. I am strongly pro-science.

Rupert Sheldrake

I AmResearchSocietyRoyalMore

In college, I didn't know whether to hang out with the black kids or the white kids, and then I found the theatre kids, and I was like, 'Oh, it doesn't matter.' We were all weird and listening to Morrissey and wearing Doc Martens so that was my tribe.

Courtney A. Kemp

CollegeListeningTheatreBlackKnow

Those big films are scary things. There's so much money behind those things. There's that hype. You enter a machine.

Chris Pine

MoneyYouScaryHypeThingsBig

Your company's most valuable asset is how it is known to its customers.

Brian Tracy

CompanyCustomersYourAssetMost

It's Charley's Aunt and The Odd Couple rolled into one.

Allan Carr

AuntOddCoupleCharley

Neophyte writers tend to believe that there is something magical about ideas and that if they can just get a hold of a good one, then their futures are ensured.

Lynn Abbey

GoodIdeasBelieveMagicalHoldGet

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