There are no books in this world that everybody must read, but only books that a person must read at a certain time in a given place under given circumstances and at a given period of his life.


Lin Yutang

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I really enjoyed hanging out with some of the teachers. This one chemistry teacher, she liked hangin...
MAYA LIN
You have to be wired a certain way to be a professional basketball player, and the way my body grew,...
JEREMY LIN
My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was u...
MAYA LIN
I am Chinese. I speak fluent Mandarin. And I go, 'Man, it's about time a Chinese person coul...
LUDI LIN
I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World...
MAYA LIN
that was bad; i shouldn't have done that

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Not sure if that will benefit me or hurt me, but I know I have the skills and am ready to play in th...
JEREMY LIN
The early readers are in-between books for the kids who aren't ready for novels yet but are done...
GRACE LIN
Some artists want to confront. Some want to invoke thought. They're all necessary and they'r...
MAYA LIN
By the time we get to 2006 or 2007, there will be a ton of new service providers offering wireless v...
ALBERT LIN
I have worked out with the Thunder, Lakers, Knicks, Grizzlies, Spurs, and a few others before the dr...
JEREMY LIN
A world without right or wrong was a world that did not want itself, anything other than itself, or ...
TAO LIN
There was an enjoyment to being alive, he felt, that because of an underlying meaninglessness–like...
TAO LIN
Investors' heightened attention will make it easy for the proposed fund to attract investment.
CUI LIN
Our system scans the database each night to identify customers who signal their need for attention. ...
C.F. LIN
We have no choice but to train nursing workers to provide all non-medical services to the patients a...
ZHU LIN
When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the wa...
MAYA LIN
Three years ago I had a vision about doing a film that talked about entertainment in Hong Kong - I s...
ANDREW LIN
China Airlines does not have to borrow from the banks to buy planes by renting them from leasing com...
ANDREW LIN
The impact of this global initiative on global e-commerce will be profound. The GS1 HK Data Pool ena...
ANNA LIN
The impact of this global initiative on global e-commerce will be profound. The GS1 HK Data Pool ena...
ANNA LIN
This seamless and integrated business process will help position Hong Kong as the premier hub for lo...
ANNA LIN
I think right now the way society's going, I think role models are important, and kids need dire...
JEREMY LIN
I look at it and decide, 'You need to be a bunny rabbit' or whatever.
LIN DUTTON
They went up there, and then they ran down here, and they went up the big evergreen, and then they w...
LIN DUTTON
I've always done a lot of different things - quilts and making dolls and stained glass - but this ha...
LIN DUTTON
Semiconductor shares pushed the market higher and we think the second quarter probably won't be as s...
KEVIN LIN
In the final analysis, the whole cause of world revolution hinges on the revolutionary struggles of ...
LIN BIAO
It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.
MAYA LIN
If MCI can take its brand, which is still substantial, and gain more customers, it would be more att...
ALBERT LIN
does a society exist where it's become acceptable to wear 'helmets' enclosing one's entire head when...
TAO LIN
Nothing is ever guaranteed, and all that came before doesn't predicate what you might do next.
MAYA LIN
It's an astonishing display of talents and styles, and I think it's far superior graphically to adul...
LIN OLIVER
We have reached a settlement with CNN. The amount of the settlement is both confidential and, under ...
LIN WOOD
People are having a hard time squaring the current quarter, which was pretty good, with their guidan...
ALBERT LIN
If a broker prints and ships a loan package and it is lost in the mail or somehow mishandled, he has...
CHRIS LIN
Everyone looks me and says, 'I'm not going to let that Asian kid embarrass me. I'm going...
JEREMY LIN
To fly we have to have resistance.
MAYA LIN