Chinese Quotes - Page 27

• The Chinese tell time by 'The Year of the Horse' or 'The Year of the Dragon.' I tell time by 'The Year of the Back' and 'The Year of the Elbow.' This year it's 'The Year of the Ulnar Nerve.' Someone once asked me if I had any physical incapacities of my own. 'Sure I do,' I said. 'One big one - Jim Palmer.'

  Earl Weaver

  Horse, Dragons, Years

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• A small species of pinus was much prized, and, when dwarfed in the manner of the Chinese, fetched a very high price; it is generally grafted on a variety of the stone pine.

  Robert Fortune

  Stones, Species, Variety

  Robert Fortune (2012). “A Journey to the Tea Countries of China: Including Sung-Lo and the Bohea Hills; with a Short Notice of the East India Company's Tea Plantations in the Himalaya Mountains”, p.329, Cambridge University Press

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• Stunted varieties were generally chosen, particularly if they had the side branches opposite or regular, for much depends upon this; a one-sided tree is of no value in the eyes of the Chinese.

  Robert Fortune

  Eye, Opposites, Tree

  Robert Fortune (1863). “Yedo and Peking: A Narrative of a Journey to the Capitals of Japan and China ...”, p.112

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• The Chinese, by their favourite system of dwarfing, contrive to make it, when only a foot and a half or two feet high, have all the characters of an aged cedar of Lebanon.

  Robert Fortune

  Character, Two, Feet

  Robert Fortune “A Residence Among The Chinese”, Lulu.com

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• The dwarfed trees of the Chinese and Japanese have been noticed by every author who has written upon these countries, and all have attempted to give some description of the method by which the effect is produced.

  Robert Fortune

  Country, Giving, Tree

  Robert Fortune (1847). “Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China: Including a Visit to the Tea, Silk, and Cotton Countries; with an Account of the Agriculture and Horticulture of the Chinese, New Plants, Etc”, p.85

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• I'm as proud to be Chinese as I am American.

  Ming-Na Wen

  Proud

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If production does not increase in Iraq in an exponential way between now and 2015, we have a very big problem, even if Saudi Arabia meets its obligations. The figures are very simple, you do not need to be an expert. It is enough to know how to do a subtraction. China will grow very quickly, India also, and even Saudi Arabia projections of the 3 Mb/day will not be enough to meet the rise of Chinese demand.

  Fatih Birol

  Simple, Iraq, Experts

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• For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty and it's not what it is for me.

  Abigail Washburn

  Chinese Music, Novelty, Feels

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• I reside in a new colony for the Chinese-singing banjo player, with a population of one. At least I have something I have to do with my life.

  Abigail Washburn

  Player, Singing, Population

  "Obsessed: China" by Abigail Washburn, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 17, 2012.

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• I'm, I guess you could say, the Chinese-speaking, banjo-picking girl.

  Abigail Washburn

  Girl, Banjos

  "What Do China And The Banjo Have In Common?". "TED Radio Hour" with Alison Stewart, www.npr.org. May 25, 2012.

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• The Chinese view the state, not just as an intimate member of the family ... but as the head of the family.

  Martin Jacques

  Motivation, Inspiration, Views

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• Chinese workers are not forced into factories because of our insatiable desire for iPods. They choose to leave their homes in order to earn money, to learn new skills, and to see the world.

  Leslie T. Chang

  Motivation, Inspiration, Home

  "The voices of China's workers". TED Talk, www.ted.com. June 2012.

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• At the point when I wanted to become a designer, I didn't think about, 'Oh, but I'm a woman,' just like didn't think about like, well, 'I'm Chinese' or that 'I'm in Michigan.' You know, none of those things were obstacles to me. I just had this idea that this is what I had to do.

  Anna Sui

  Thinking, Ideas, Michigan

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• The Chinese people have only family and clan solidarity; they do not have national spirit...they are just a heap of loose sand...Other men are the carving knife and serving dish; we are the fish and the meat.

  Sun Yat-sen

  Men, Knives, People

  "China as a Heap of Loose Sand" (1924)

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• I would like my work to be recognized as being in the classical tradition (Coptic, Egyptian, Greek, Chinese), as representing the Ideal in the mind. Classical art cannot possibly be eclectic. One must see the ideal in one's own mind. It is like a memory - an awareness -of perfection.

  Agnes Martin

  Art, Memories, Perfection

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• The Jesuits had learned that a Christian mission to China could never succeed if it were not in a position to show and convince the Chinese intelligentsia of the superiority of the European culture.

  Hu Shih

  Christian, Culture, Succeed

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• It is true that the Chinese are not so religious as the Hindus, or even as the Japanese; and they are certainly not so religious as the Christian missionaries desire them to be.

  Hu Shih

  Christian, Religious, Desire

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• When the Chinese government tells its citizens that they can worship in a certain building on a certain day, but once they leave that building they must bow to the secular orthodoxy of the state, you have a cynical lie at work. They’ve substituted a toothless ‘freedom of worship’ for ‘freedom of religion’.

  Eric Metaxas

  Lying, Government, Cynical

  "Raising Good Men". Interview with Kathryn Jean Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. May 4, 2013.

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• The mantras, however, are mysterious and each word is profound in meaning. When they are transliterated into Chinese, the original meanings are modified and the long and short vowels are confused. In the end we can get roughly similar sounds but not precisely the same ones. Unless we use Sanskrit, it is hardly possible to differentiate the long and short sounds. The purpose of retaining the source materials, indeed, lies here.

  Kukai

  Confused, Lying, Long

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• Chinese central government doesn't need to even lead public opinion: it just selectively stops censorship. In other words, just as censorship is a political tool, so is the absence of censorship.

  Michael Anti

  Government, Political, Public Opinion

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• For me, I think the Lord wanted me to win to put a smile on Chinese people's faces.

  Michael Chang

  Smile, Winning, Thinking

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• Different Chinese philosophers, writing probably in 5-4 centuries B.C., presented some major ideas and a way of life that are nowadays known under the name of Taoism, the way of correspondence between man and the tendency or the course of natural world.

  Alan Watts

  Writing, Men, Names

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• Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It's the Chinese convention of reversing light and dark, and exactly where anybody is at any given moment is the play.

  Peter Shaffer

  Dark, Light, Play

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• The rural Chinese in Henan Province mixed alcohol and business like you wouldn’t believe. Perhaps as a result, they also had a charming nationalistic blind spot: they honestly believed they could out-drink everyone else on the planet. As an Irish-American who outweighed them by 50 pounds, I had come to find this both amusing and useful.

  Matthew Polly

  Believe, Blind Spots, Alcohol

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• One shark turned to the other to say he was fed up chasing tuna and the other said, 'Why don't we go to Morecambe Bay and get some Chinese?'

  Ann Winterton

  Sharks, Tuna, Conservative

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