Tiananmen Square in early 1989 attracted many dreamers like Ma Jian, who returned from Hong Kong to a one-room shack in Beijing in order to join the student protests.
There's nobody more opposite from John Shaft than a kid who worships a banana as his god.
I like people who shake other people up and make them feel uncomfortable.
I went off at a person who threw a plastic thing at one of my shows once. After I shamed them, I realised it was a little lipstick and felt bad for days.
He who allows oppression shares the crime.
Anyone who pays attention to these things can easily see the incredible bond that everyone in my family shares.
I love Roald Dahl, Sharon Olds, Nizar Qabbani, who is a poet, and Junot Diaz.
Of course there are some models who are not good, but it has been proven that some models can act. Look at Kim Basinger, Sharon Stone or Andie MacDowell, who were all models - they are really fantastic actresses.
The anger in the Brigade against those who fought the Republic in the rear was sharpened by reports of weapons, even tanks, being kept from the front and hidden for treacherous purposes.
All my life, I've been the kind of person who could shatter easily.
The mentally ill may have shattered lives, but how that is different than the way sin distorts our ability to comprehend who we are as God's creatures is not clear.
There are musicians who go through their lives sort of shedding their skins. For me, I've always felt backward-compatible to Version 1.0.
Who is against democracy? Is it the one who calls for peaceful resistance, or the one who bombs people, sheds their blood and leads them away from the leaders under feeble and dirty pretexts?
I am a writer who came of a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.
I felt that The Who had ended because we'd lost touch with our original Shepherd's Bush audience.
I've two huge German shepherds who are my boys. They're called Biscuit and Buster, and I love them to bits.
There are many Sheriff Arpaios. People who have taken to local city, county, and state governments across the county the idea that immigrants are the problem. That immigrants are to blame.
When I think of Sherlock Holmes, I think of a guy who can wander into the confusion of life and sort of pluck out answers at will.
The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
They make glorious shipwreck who are lost in seeking worlds.
