Chinese Quotes

There is a definite Chinese pop sound developing, but I was shocked at how influenced it is by American music.

I am very interested in and that is what Sun Tzu in his ancient Chinese text calls The Art of War.

May I remind you that the bombs that were dropped by the B-2 plane on the Chinese embassy  or at least that is what we were told  were GPS bombs. And the B-2 flew in from the US.

I'm sure the movie industry is going up but I would love to see more Chinese films about contemporary Chinese about the problems of life on the street.

I am a big Dragon fan. I've said it before- And I was fortunate enough to be born a Dragon in the Chinese Horocope.

Being from a very traditional Chinese-American family, my parents believed the only options to have a successful life were to be a doctor, a lawyer, an engineer or a business person.

When I was two years old, I heard about his [Dalai Lama] flight from Tibet. Being very little, I said, "Oh, good Tibetans, bad Chinese." Those were the black-and-white ways that I thought.

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.

Is all literature eavesdropping, and all art Chinese imitation? our life a custom, and our body borrowed, like a beggar’s dinner, from a hundred charities?

Frank held up the Chinese handcuffs. “Keep it simple.

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.

When the snipe and the mussel struggle, the fisherman gets the benefit. Ancient Chinese saying

I think it's very important to follow the lead of the South Koreans and the Chinese and not back North Korea even further into a corner, because that's when they'll be dangerous.

I tried therapy. This had never appealed to me. For me, it was a bit like a Chinese meal: very filling at the time, but then an hour later you're hungry again.

The Chinese can devalue their currency, apparently without doing much harm to themselves. They can do this as a strategy to destroy our economy in America.

The Chinese are good at repression and can be pretty ruthless about it.

Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.

I'm basically a poetry scholar, and I'm happier here in my studio with my row of Chinese dictionaries than I am, frankly, at Lincoln Center.

I was very lucky. I don't know German, or Dutch, or Chinese, or Thai. I don't know them, so I can't judge, so I have to go on the word of the publisher that it's a good translation.

A boycott would send a clear message to Yahoo shareholders and other companies which cheerfully sacrifice human rights in return for a cut of the Chinese market.

The Chinese do make vast quantities of wine for home consumption, but you wouldn't want to drink it yourself.

I did learn Chinese kung-fu in a school for a short time, but I couldn't afford to pay for long-term learning.

Naturally the U.S. trails in gold medals because every time we win one, we hand it over to the Chinese to pay off our debt.

At first I was laboring under the impression that Chinese lyrics didn't rhyme. That turned out to be untrue - they don't rhyme in translation.

Ancient Chinese custom if you were a guest in one of their homes and you admired some particular thing, they would wrap it up and present it to you as a gift. But isn't that what life does.

The Chinese government is quickly losing its ideological legitimacy, maintain its rule with force, but cannot draw strength from the ideology of Marx and Mao.

We got a Chinese Elvis painted by Norman Rockwell.

You can't help but feel that the Chinese people are a subspecies.

The Chinese are like a tank through a corn field, they just keep mowing through it. Senators want sanctions against countries supporting cyberattacks.

When Cartier-Bresson goes to China, he shows that there are people in China, and that they are Chinese.

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.

I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality.

People didn't relate to me as being Chinese or white, just being a hippie, a long-haired hippie.

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".

From Indian vultures to Chinese bees, Nature provides the 'natural services' that keep the economy going

The Chinese are generally speaking much more reluctant than Westerners to killing as a means to the rescue of lives.

The Chinese did after all decide that the Soviet Union was a greater threat than the United States and decided to come to terms with the United States when Nixon visits China.

In a painting, you can't make out whether the artist painted the left eye before the right eye. In Chinese calligraphy, you can see the progression of the artist's stroke.

If we didn't have the Chinese buying things, we'd be on the floor.

I'm putting all my money in the Chinese toy market.

Her life was like a burst of wild, flowing Chinese calligraphy, written under the influence of alcohol.

I grew up in a Chinese family where the parents No. 1 priority is the kids education.

I have a dream to provide every Chinese, especially children, sufficient milk each day.

The Chinese, whom it might be well to disparage less and imitate more, seem almost the only people among whom learning and merit have the ascendency, and wealth is not the standard of estimation.

I suppose I do the Japanese because I just don't know China. Chinese popular culture has never evoked that instant of, "Whoah! What's that?" that I have with Japanese popular culture.

No one like crying, but tears water our souls. So, perhaps my thanks should be to allow you to cry for the Chinese women in my books.

Buddhism helps people to overcome pain. The deepest pain that Chinese people feel now is the pain of separation from loved ones, one of the eight pains in Buddhism.

Chinese people don't care about freedom, but they do care about justice.

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

I always think it's really hard if you are Asian or Chinese to be really in Hollywood. There are not so many really great characters for you.