Chinese Quotes - Page 9

• One of my inspirations, Harry Houdini, remains an icon of the art because he defied our primal fears. His demonstrations in the early 20th century, especially his escape from the Chinese water torture cell, represented triumph over suffocation, drowning, disorientation and helplessness.

  Criss Angel

  Art, Inspiration, Cells

  4 Copy quote

• People have different goals, when you start out making a movie. If the goal is darkness and destruction and despair, it's not like, "Hey, let's go to set, and then let's hit the bar afterwards. Let's jaunt into London and pick up some Chinese food." No, you go home from set and you go fight at the gym, and then you go to sleep. You stay in it. You never excuse yourself, you never take it easy on yourself, you never eat good food.

  Jon Bernthal

  Sleep, Home, Fighting

  Source: collider.com

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• I find it more credible, since it is anterior information, that one man should know heaven, as the Chinese say, than that so many men should know the world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Heaven, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.215

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The two-war strategy was a product of the cold war, when we had to have the ability to fight the Russians on the plains of Europe and fight the Chinese on the Korean peninsula at the same time. That costs an awful lot of money.

  Joe Klein

  War, Fighting, Europe

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. September 14, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I wanna say 'China', but I don't really mean 'China.' I just mean the places that Chinese people come from.

  Patrice O'Neal

  Mean, People, China

  10 Copy quote

• John McCain turned 72 years old last Friday, but the Chinese are making him a birth certificate that says he's only 33 and then he'll be ready to go.

  David Letterman

  Friday, Years, Lasts

  4 Copy quote

• The Chinese Government and I myself have always attached great importance to China-U.S. relations. In the new historic era, I look forward to working together with you to continuously strengthen dialogue and exchanges between our two countries.

  Hu Jintao

  Country, Government, Two

  13 Copy quote

• Americans are much more American than they are Northerners, Southerners, Westerners, or Easterners ... California Chinese, Boston Irish, Wisconsin German, yes, Alabama Negroes, have more in common than they have apart ... The American identity is an exact and provable thing.

  John Steinbeck

  Boston, California, Identity

  5 Copy quote

• Our western mind lacking all culture in this respect, has never yet devised a concept, not even a name for "the union of opposites through the middle path", that most fundamental item of inward experience which could respectably be set against the Chinese concept of Tao.

  Carl Jung

  Opposites, Names, Mind

  Carl Gustav Jung, Richard Francis Carrington Hull (1992). “Two Essays on Analytical Psychology”, p.205, Psychology Press

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Only with maturity did I come to appreciate my own Chinese roots: not just the food and the ancient history, but also the philosophy of child-rearing and the respect for education and knowledge.

  Tess Gerritsen

  Children, Philosophy, Maturity

  4 Copy quote

• The Chinese had gunpowder, but it didn't occur to them to put it in a gun. They possessed the compass but didn't go anywhere. They invented paper, printing, and a written form of their language, but hardly anyone in China was taught to read.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Gun, Paper, Taught

  P.J. O'Rourke (2011). “Holidays in Heck”, p.143, Atlantic Books Ltd

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you talk privately to our tech companies, our pharmaceutical companies, our high-end manufacturing companies, the high end of America, where the good-paying jobs are, China is not letting them in unless China gets to steal their intellectual property in a company that`s 51 percent owned by the Chinese.

  Charles Schumer

  Jobs, America, Intellectual

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• The President Barack Obama said if we get out of this business of trade expansion, we turn it over to the Chinese. This brings us into partnership with 11 other Pacific Rim countries.

  Chris Matthews

  Country, President, Expansion

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It seems that all revolutions end up with a personality cult - even the Chinese seem to need a father-figure.

  John Lennon

  Father, Personality, Needs

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• As the local police department might want to decrypt a phone of a criminal suspect, so would the Chinese or the Russian or the Iranian intelligence agencies like to be able to do exactly the same thing.

  Matt Blaze

  Agency, Phones, Police

  Source: www.politico.com

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I go to Chinese Christian community. Jesus looks Chinese.
  I go to Japanese Christian community. Jesus looks Japanese.
  I go to Brazilian Christian community. Jesus looks Brazilian.
  How come in America Jesus looks white?

  Dick Gregory

  Christian, Jesus, White

  80 Copy quote

• There's a belief that since Africa got a raw deal from the colonial West, then the Chinese must be Africa's best friend. But the evidence doesn't show that, and the main criticism is that they are building infrastructure in exchange for Africa's resources in deals that are structured to favor China.

  George Ayittey

  Criticism, Favors, West

  5 Copy quote

• The fight against AIDS in China is already well underway. The Chinese government and other funders are providing major support, and they'll continue to bear primary responsibility for delivering prevention and treatment.

  Bill Gates

  Responsibility, Fighting, Government

  7 Copy quote

• England understands good Chinese, Japanese and Indian cuisine; in France, we just get French.

  Eva Green

  France, Cuisine, England

  5 Copy quote

• A full scale nuclear exchange, lasting less than 60 minutes...could wipe out more than 300 million Americans, Europeans, and Russians, as well as untold numbers elsewhere. And the survivors-as Chairman Khrushchev warned the Communist Chinese, `the survivors would envy the dead.' For they would inherit a world so devastated by explosions and poison and fire that today we cannot conceive of its horrors.

  John F. Kennedy

  Fire, Numbers, Envy

  63 Copy quote

• I work for a company that makes deceptively shallow serving dishes for Chinese restaurants.

  Woody Allen

  Work, Shallow, Restaurants

  9 Copy quote

• It can be argued - and rightly - that Taiwan is not just another regional issue: after all, the Chinese regard it as part of China. But Taiwan is also a regional issue for three reasons. First, the overthrow or even the neutering of democracy in Taiwan, which is what Beijing effectively demands, would be a major setback for democracy in the region as a whole. Second, if the Chinese were able to get their way by force in Taiwan, they would undoubtedly be tempted to do the same in other disputes. And third, there is no lack of such disputes to provoke a quarrel.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Issues, Democracy, Would Be

  4 Copy quote

• Anton brings the camera. I'll bring a tuba, wear black, not shave, and take us to a burned-down Chinese restaurant. (On being photographed by his longtime photo collaborator Anton Corbijn)

  Tom Waits

  Black, Cameras, Tubas

  5 Copy quote

• White people set goals, rappers 'chase paper', and the Chinese are too busy doing both to talk about either one.

  Dov Davidoff

  Rapper, White, Goal

  4 Copy quote

• There are photographers who push for war because they make stories. They search for a Chinese who has a more Chinese are than the others and they end up finding one. They have him take a typically Chinese pose and surround him with chinoiseries. What have they captured on their film? A Chinese? Definitely not: the idea of the Chinese.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  War, Ideas, Stories

  16 Copy quote