Chinese Quotes

I remember quite well that 10,000 audience sang with us three on the spot, and ever since then, I always thought the Chinese audience are the greatest audience.

My father is Chinese, Spanish, and Filipino; my mother is half-Irish and half-Japanese; Greek last name; born in Hawaii, raised in Germany.

Daughters-in-law lived with their husbands' parents, not their own; a synonym for marriage in Chinese is "taking a daughter-in-law.

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)

It's very strange, for example, in North Korea where the volcano at the Chinese border is some sort of the mythical birthplace of the Korean people.

It is a Chinese tradition that everyone has to be in everyone else's life.

Its not easy for Chinese actors to do foreign films, and its not easy for foreign actors to do Chinese films.

An army of the people is invincible!

It is because of its emptiness that the cup is useful.

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

Not really. I'm not a fan of Chinese food

Scientists have proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is life after death -- though they say it's virtually impossible to get decent Chinese food.

We might be shifting away from a Eurocentric view of the United States into something that's much more multicultural, multinational, and Chinese food is just one slice of that.

Unlike other Jewish families, we didn't go out for Chinese food on Sundays, but we spent our time in a world of baking powder biscuits and the best shrimp cocktails that ever were.

I like the Chinese proverb: If a horse is yours, it will always come back!

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.

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

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.

Chinese government is very clearly losing power in every aspect, but trying to fix up all the problems or potential problems.

I lived there [ in New York City] as an artist, but never as a Chinese artist.

The relationship between the Chinese government and me is like a Cold War.

All the rich people collect traditional Chinese art. So it's very natural for Chinese families to still see art as the highest human performance and send their children to this field.

So-called Chinese art and culture is under control of the Party. They exist to serve the official agenda. I call it fake art and culture.

Modern Chinese culture is weak and lackluster.

My understanding of Chinese history is limited. So far, I have only scratched its surface; I wish I could find out more.

Twitter is most suitable for me. In the Chinese language, 140 characters is a novella.

Kant does represents a distinctively modern view of the human condition in contrast to that of ancient high culture, found in ancient Greek ethics and also in ancient Chinese ethics.

All decent parents want to do what's best for their children. The Chinese just have a totally different idea of how to do that.

What Chinese parents understand is that nothing is fun until you're good at it. pg 29

Only two kinds of daughters, she shouted in Chinese. Those who are obedient and those who follow their own mind!

I used to think that my mother got into arguments with people because they didn't understand her English, because she was Chinese.

People there only dream that it is China, because if you are Chinese you can never let go of China in your mind.

My mother didn't teach me lessons about being Chinese as strongly as she did the notion of who I was as a female.

No matter how American I become, I'm considered part of the Chinese community by my own family.

I start by using Chinese and many of the sounds of other languages are similar.

I think that at heart I am an old-fashioned Chinese, really I am.

I like to go back to Chinese film-making from time to time. I don't think I can make Chinese films back to back; it's such a big effort. I'd have to take a very long break.

Making a martial arts film in English to me is the same as John Wayne speaking Chinese in a western.

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?'

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.

If I were to limit myself to the opportunities that were presented playing only Chinese-American parts, I would be virtually without a career.

I have a blog in Chinese, which you can follow, Chinese signs. But I don't even update at all, often I don't.

I worked in a Chinese restaurant.

Wonderful to see with the whole family. It's like travelling from dynasty to dynasty, from one Chinese region to another.

First of all, it would be great for world football to have a competitive Chinese team as China traditionally has deep relation to sports in general.

A huge Chinese population here in... Houston.

London is the sporting capital of the world. I say to the Chinese and I say to the world, ping pong is coming home.

I don't think the Chinese look out at the world and want to overturn the system.

The prose poem Walk The Red Road is great stuff and deserves to be read aloud. It compares quite favorably to The Walls Of Emerald by Li Chiang Yen, a Chinese poet of the late Tang period.

I'm very much involved with Asian art and its theory and practice, mainly Chinese because that was quite sophisticated. I tend to look at that more than I look the Western.