Activity Quote by Brendan Fraser

“The earth was initially very hot and without an atmosphere. In the course of time it cooled and acquired an atmosphere from the emission…

— Stephen Hawking

A first novel of astonishing force, craft and beauty, The Headmaster's Wager conjures up a dizzyingly evocative wartime Saigon in the story of Percival…

— Janice Y. K. Lee

“Every day when I walk the streets of this city, I am just that. I am an Indochinese laborer, generalized and indiscriminate, easily spotted…

— Monique Truong

“Saigon was loved precisely because it was so unlovable - its squalor, its biblical, Job-like misfortune, its imminent, hoevering doom.”

— Tatjana Soli

Nobody gives way to anybody. Everyone just angles, points, dives directly toward his destination, pretending it is an all-or-nothing gamble. People glare at one…

— Andrew X. Pham

In the modern operas that 'Miss Saigon' and 'Les Miz' are, nobody breaks out into song from conventional book dialogue. Everything is sung from…

— Lea Salonga

When helicopters were snatching people from the grounds of the American embassy compound during the panic of the final Vietcong push into Saigon, I…

— Calvin Trillin

Saigon was an addicted city, and we were the drug: the corruption of children, the mutilation of young men, the prostitution of women, the…

— James Fenton

The International Control Commission isn't doing anything, it's never done anything. What good does it do to be on it or not? Before opening…

— Indira Gandhi

Saigon, U.S.A. aptly documents the birth of a new American community, uprooted in the aftermath of war and forever torn apart by the wounds…

— Nguyen Qui Duc

One book that I heard was circulating the Green Zone was "Bureaucracy Does Its Thing" by Robert Komer , who worked for President [Lindon]…

— George Packer

“Helen's Saigon had always been about selling - chickens, information, or lovely young women, it didn't matter. It had once been called the Pearl…

— Tatjana Soli