Amy Tan Quotes

Look at this face. Do you see my foolish hope?

Amy Tan

Hope

Quotes to Explore

I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.

Hank Aaron
- Practice
- See
- Down
When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.

Orlando Bloom
- Done
- Role
- Broadway
I wanna live 'til I die, no more, no less.

Eddie Izzard
- Live
- Die
- More
Probably the biggest influence on my career was the late John Hersey, who, while he was at 'The New Yorker,' wrote one of the masterpieces of narrative non-fiction, 'Hiroshima.' Hersey was a teacher of mine at Yale, and a friend. He got me to see the possibility of journalism not just as a business but as an art form.

Hampton Sides
- Art
- Business
- Career
I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.

Karl Lagerfeld
- House
- Paris
- Now
The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy.

Lajos Kossuth
- Time
- World
- Change