Chinese Quotes - Page 39

• In Asia, red is the colour of joy; red is the colour of festivities and of celebration. In Chinese culture, blue is the colour of mourning.

  Vincent Tan

  Blue, Mourning, Joy

  "Cardiff City dare to dream after play-off heartache of recent seasons" by Stuart James, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2013.

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• If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.

  Yusuf Hamied

  Raw Materials, World, Tomorrow

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• Americans believe that you can alter people by conversion, and that everybody in the world is a potential American. The Chinese also believe that their values are universal, but they do not believe that you can convert to becoming a Chinese unless you are born into it.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Believe, People, Becoming

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• China could easily emerge as the great winner if the Chinese leaders handle the situation well. On the other hand, they could also turn out to be the biggest losers if they handle it poorly. If the management turns out be wrong, this could lead to a political crisis in China.

  George Soros

  Hands, Leader, Political

  "'The Economy Fell off the Cliff'". Interview with Mathias Müller von Blumencron, Gregor Peter Schmitz and Gabor Steingart, www.spiegel.de. November 24, 2008.

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• China is never going to be a global model. Western system is really broken in some fundamental ways, but the Chinese system is not going to work either. It is a deeply unfair and immoral system where everything can be taken away from anyone in a split second.

  Francis Fukuyama

  Taken, Broken, Fundamentals

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• I eat strategically. If I know I'm having a big Chinese banquet tomorrow, I'm not eating a big dinner tonight, and I'm not having breakfast.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Tonight, Breakfast, Dinner

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• I think at the time, my radicalization was not through growing up Chinese, but through the role that the black people were playing at the beginning of World War II, when they had started the "Double V for Victory" movement - for democracy at home as well as abroad.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Growing Up, War, Home

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think I can work with different crews; I've worked with Bulgarian, Norwegian, Japanese, and Chinese crews. For me, the most important thing is the storytelling, and I'm really comfortable working with all kinds of languages.

  Isabel Coixet

  Thinking, Important, Different

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I know this is weird... I am a Black woman and I am not mixed with any Asian blood or Chinese blood at all, but for some reason, as a child, the movie, The Last Emperor, had a serious affect on me. I can't understand why. But there's something that the movie did to me.

  Tyra Banks

  Children, Blood, Black

  "Model to Mogul and Beyond". Interview with Ty-Ron Mayes, westeastmag.com. October 27, 2012.

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• I have always been interested in mythology and history. The more I read, the more I realized that there have always been people at the edges of history that we know very little about. I wanted to use them in a story and bring them back into the public's consciousness. Similarly with mythology: everyone knows some of the Greek or Roman legends, and maybe some of the Egyptian or Norse stories too, but what about the other great mythologies: the Celtic, Chinese, Native American?

  Michael Scott

  Native American, People, Greek

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• Last night I ordered a whole meal in French. Even the waiter was amazed - it was a Chinese restaurant!

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Humor, Night

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• I write my books to challenge my own feelings and theories. Perhaps most surprising was what I learned about rice farming. It was really interesting to think of how different Asian and Western cultures are as a result of the kinds of agricultural practices that our ancestors used for thousands of years. The life of a Chinese peasant in the Middle Ages was so dramatically different from the life of a European peasant - night and day different.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Book, Writing, Night

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• Hong Kong is the bellwether. If the Chinese stick to their agreement to let Hong Kong go its own path, then China will also go that way. If they don't, that is a very bad sign. I'm optimistic.

  Milton Friedman

  Optimistic, Agreement, Way

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I always thought that in modern history Chinese people are like a dish of sand, never really close together. But I think a dish of sand is a good metaphor because we have the Internet. We don't have to be physically united. You can be an individual and have your own set of values but join others in certain struggles. There is nothing more powerful than that.

  Ai Weiwei

  Powerful, Struggle, Thinking

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• India has probably lost its position to China as the world's workshop. At the same time it has the power to be ahead of China when it comes to knowledge. Not that the Chinese are far behind. They will get there. But our challenge is to invest sufficiently in education.

  Ratan Tata

  Challenges, India, World

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• I made a braid because Chinese old people, they say that the God will take you by the hair to join you with - but God didn't take me, so I cut the braid.

  Agnes Varda

  Cutting, Hair, People

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• And if ten percent of men are gay and twenty percent of men are Chinese, what are the odds that a men chosen at random spends his free time and mealtime while on his knees.

  Bo Burnham

  Funny, Humor, Gay

  Song: New Math, Album: Bo Burnham

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• I had a meal last night. I ordered everything in French, surprised everybody. It was a Chinese restaurant. I said to this Chinese waiter, 'Look, this chicken I got here is cold.' He said, 'It should be, it's been dead two weeks.'

  Tommy Cooper

  Funny, Humor, Night

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• So I went to the Chinese restaurant and this duck came up to me with a red rose and says "Your eyes sparkle like diamonds". I said "Waiter, I asked for a-ROMATIC duck".

  Tommy Cooper

  Funny, Humor, Eye

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• The difference between being Mexican and being Chinese, as I can see it, is that when you go to Harvard from a Chinese family, the whole family goes to Harvard. When you're a Mexican and you go to Harvard, you betray the family.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Differences, Mexican, Being Me

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• How can you work on letting your thoughts go and getting synchronized into the moment and questioning your wild imagination. But I say just think of all the great Japanese and Chinese poets and scholars who were also meditators.

  Anne Waldman

  Thinking, Wild Imagination, Moments

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• Visiting Future World is like opening a Chinese fortune cookie to read, "Soon you'll be finished with dinner."

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Humor, Fortune Cookie

  P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.159, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Why can't we have racism that's ignorant but nice? You could have stereotypes that are positive about race. You could say, "Those Chinese people, they can fly!" "You know about the Puerto Ricans? They're made of candy!"

  Louis C. K.

  Funny, Nice, Race

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• I'll tell you what I like about Chinese people: they're hanging in there with the chop sticks, aren't they? You know they've seen the fork. They're staying with the sticks.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Funny, People, Sticks

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• The rich countries are rich because of their practices at home, and because of their readiness to adopt and adapt new things, such as Chinese inventions or New World crops.

  Ibn Warraq

  Country, Home, Rich Countries

  Ibn Warraq (2013). “Why the West is Best: A Muslim Apostate's Defense of Liberal Democracy”, p.71, Encounter Books

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