Cyril Wong Quotes

What does it mean to write a story of your own life in your head? We all do that whether we are writers or not. We all have a story about who we are: what gender we are, what experiences we have . . . all sorts of stories and narratives we allow ourselves to believe in and create as we go along. ~ Cyril Wong

Soon we were downloading ourselves
into laptops, phones or pads, freer
than we had hoped,

floating centrifugally across the Internet
to swim alongside forgotten
selfies, spam emails and porn ~ Cyril Wong

I mostly believe, deep in my bones, that life is very simply beyond description; regardless of what one makes of it, life always spills over the parameters of how anyone has chosen to define it. ~ Cyril Wong

Soon I find myself squatting on the floor. I am still striking my face; not with my fists this time, but with wide-open hands. I am slapping myself. The sounds I make when my palms meet my cheeks are like an unrelenting round of applause. I am clapping myself. Or clapping for myself. I start to giggle.

All the voices are receding now. I am no longer filled with rage or disappointment. I clap and clap and simply cannot stop. ~ Cyril Wong

Names are what you can hear or see, but cannot smell or touch. I don't need a name, as name stand for things they are not, and I am what all names stand for. If you gave me a name, it would mean that we are separate, you and I, when we are not.

- The Blind Girl and the Talking Moon ~ Cyril Wong

When people who remember her better than me talk of her, she is always described as headstrong and irresponsible, which, if you think about it, are just different words for untameable. The wind is untameable, and so are rivers, and there is something poetic in that. ~ Claire Wong

No matter where you go, management is always a bunch of cheap bastards. ~ David Wong

1936 is a very important year: a golden time for martial arts, right before the Japanese invasion. ~ Wong Kar-Wai

My feet had never been so bare. Those little naked toes.That spider thing probably looks at those like the ears on a chocolate bunny. ~ David Wong

Just in case, though, I stormed into my apartment, tossed a quick hello to Mr. Wong, then rummaged through my entertainment center to lay out all my exorcism equipment. I kept it in my entertainment center because exorcisms were nothing if not entertaining. ~ Darynda Jones

We're talking about a tentacled flying lamp fucker, Dave. What are you prepared to call unlikely? ~ David Wong

The artist secretes nostalgia around life. ~ Cyril Connolly

Optimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice. ~ Cyril Connolly

If I don't commit to fighting for the future, 20 years later, 30 years later, after the end of the expiration date of the joint declaration, Hong Kong will be more at risk and in greater danger. ~ Joshua Wong

May you find time to read in quiet serenity while thriving to live in Balance and Oneness ~ Helen Wong

People like me know that there is no magic. There is only the grind. Work looks like magic to those unwilling to do it. ~ David Wong

Light-headed, my body trembling from shoes to shoulders in random spells, like I swallowed a vibrator. It's always like this when I'm on the sauce. I dosed six hours ago. ~ David Wong

You have suffered enough." That became my mantra for motherhood from there on out. You have suffered enough. If you can make it easier, make it easier, and don't feel guilty about it. ~ Ali Wong

It had the tangled floor plan common to all hospitals, seemingly designed by someone who believed in the healing power of watching confused visitors aimlessly wander around hallways. ~ David Wong

The success of the storytellers - we're only as good as what we can withhold from the audience. Aspects of surprise and letting things play out for the audience - it's so much a part of their enjoyment. It's one of the great things about working in the movies and being a great storyteller. ~ B. D. Wong

The horizon was shitting a sun, casting a glow on a layer of fog that was settling in the low areas like puddles of ghost piss. ~ David Wong

I have always loved fairy tales, even now at the age when I am supposed to be too grown up and cynical for them. ~ Claire Wong

There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God. ~ Cyril Connolly

I don't see it right now - maybe it was in a different book - but anyway, he says that when you read the Bible, the Devil looks back at you through the pages."
"What, like his Bible was possessed? Holy shit, he must have been the worst priest ever. ~ David Wong

In the context of social media, reddit is more about the media than the personalities. ~ Yishan Wong

I'm Anna May Wong. I come from old Hong Kong. But now I'm a Hollywood star. ~ Anna May Wong

I picked up the phone and dialed up John on his cell. One ring, and then-
"I TOLD YOU TO LEAVE ME THE FUCK ALONE, VINNY!"
"John?"
"Oh, Dave. Sorry. I had been having a heated argument here on my phone and then I hung up in disgust. Then when the phone rang I just assumed, without checking, that it was the person I was having an argument with so I just blindly shouted insults into the phone. How embarrassing."
"I'm getting sick of that one, John. ~ David Wong

John trotted up, carrying his satchel. "Yes. Wexler's gone. We need your car."
"What? Why?"
John circled around to the passenger-side door and said, "Car chase. ~ David Wong

You want to hear a story? Well, buckle the fuck up."
From: What the Hell Did I Just Read ~ David Wong

John snatched the rebound, spun, jumped, slammed. He pumped his fist in victory. "Ring it up! Two hundred seventy-four to one thirty-seven!" In John's game, each shot is worth one hundred and thirty-seven points. ~ David Wong

You have to talk through the bratwurst from now on. ~ David Wong

At this point two elderly security guards in parkas, the guys who normally work the front desk at the plant, asked John to step behind the tape. John claims that here he told the guards that he could not speak English and when that failed to persuade them, he fa ... ked a violent seizure. I am unclear as to the purpose of this part of his plan. John flung himself down and began rolling around in the snow, thrashing his limbs about and screaming "EL SEIZURE!!! NO ES BUENO!!!" in a Mexican accent. ~ David Wong

Sheep with a nasty side. ~ Cyril Connolly

Solving the following riddle will reveal the awful secret behind the universe, assuming you do not go utterly mad in the attempt. If you already happen to know the awful secret behind the universe, feel free to skip ahead. ~ David Wong

SHUT UP. Both of you. You're coming with me." To me he said, "Put some pants on."
"Fuck you. This is my house. I make the rules. You take your clothes off. John, get the Twister mat. ~ David Wong

Love is a fine mingling of holding on and letting go. ~ Wan-Ling, Wong

Back in the 1950s and '60s, J. M. Barrie's 'Peter Pan' - starring Mary Martin and Cyril Ritchard - was regularly aired on network television during the Christmas season. I must have seen it four or five times and remember, in particular, Ritchard's gloriously camp interpretation of Captain Hook. ~ Michael Dirda

Nothing dates like hate and in literature a little of it goes a very long way. ~ Cyril Connolly

We fixed him just by telling him that he wasn't crazy, that the horrors he was seeing were real. He seemed oddly comforted by that. He was a lawyer. ~ David Wong

I am now forced to admit that anxiety is my true condition, occasionally intruded on by work, pleasure, melancholy or despair. ~ Cyril Connolly

Reddit is where anyone can come and tell their real story. ~ Yishan Wong

The books I haven't written are better than the books other people have. ~ Cyril Connolly

I had saved a lot of money working at Mrs. Fields' Chocolate Chip Cookies, ushering at the Golden Gate Theatre, and doing odd jobs so I could live in New York for a few months. If it ran out, I would have to give up and go home. It turned out OK. I got my Equity card and started working. ~ B. D. Wong

You see the clouds in the sky? I made that with Vapr! ~ Cyril Takayama

Both my happiness and unhappiness I owe to the love of pleasure; of sex, travel, reading, conversation (hearing oneself talk), food, drink, cigars and lying in warm water. ~ Cyril Connolly

No one can achieve Serenity until the glare of passion is past the meridian. ~ Cyril Connolly