Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Hong

As long as I have the talent and there's a demand for the old Chinese man - whether he's a philosopher, or a master, or an old-time restaurant owner, or a villain, or a so-called good guy - I will always be working.

Jim Bowers

After looking at all of the 500 pieces, I think they were either some sort of game pieces or were used for trading by Chinese workers. I lean toward the game pieces, though.

Tom Verlaine

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

Zhang Xin

It's a good thing that it is getting simpler to register a company in China, it is good that the exchange rate of our currency is getting more flexible and that it's getting easier for Chinese businesspeople to travel. All of this opens up our economy.

Liu Jianchao

The Chinese government and the Chinese embassy in France are very concerned about the current situation of the ethnic Chinese in France.

George Ayittey

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.

Henry A. Kissinger

The first reactions are often instinctive. So one of the first things we said was that the Chinese had no right to inspect the plane, and that we had a sovereign right to. I don't know what the legal position is, but it was surely psychologically absolutely the unwise thing to do.

Giorgio Armani

You can see from my retrospective show that many products reflect the Chinese inspiration.

Philip Gourevitch

These interviews were truly like nothing I had read before, ... On the other hand, they reminded me of everything from Studs Terkel to Bertolt Brecht. They offer a funny, weird glimpse of how Chinese society works.

Ed Goeas

Running away from the president makes the situation worse.

Ben Nelson

Anytime the president visits Nebraska its good for Nebraska.

Calvin Coolidge

I always figured the American public wanted a solemn ass for president, so I went along with them.

Ronald Reagan

How could an actor become president?

Stephen Colbert

Northwestern's alumni list is truly impressive. This university has graduated best-selling authors, Olympians, presidential candidates, Grammy winners, Peabody winners, Emmy winners, and that's just me!

Pat Paulsen

Presidents tend to tinker, you know, and mess everything up.

Lance Armstrong

On a friendship with former president George W. Bush: He's a personal friend, but we've all got the right not to agree with our friends.

James K. Polk

I cannot, whilst President of the United States, descend to enter into a newspaper controversy.

John Searle

How do we get from electrons to elections and from protons to presidents?

Miley Cyrus

This is a new point in my life, and things are totally changing. But like the sunsets I saw on Tybee Island, the miles I’ve already gone are going to stay with me.

Brian Clough

You don't want roast beef and Yorkshire every night and twice on Sunday.

Ana Castillo

Between the sun and poverty there was us for a little while.

Alexander Pope

The soul's calm sunshine and heartfelt joy.

Raoul Dufy

One must not imitate the sun, one must make oneself into a sun.

Thomas Jefferson

The sun - my almighty physician.

William Butler Yeats

Only the wasteful virtues earn the sun....

Zelda Fitzgerald

["The Sun Also Rises" is about] bullfighting, bullslinging and bullsh[*]t.

Mahatma Gandhi

Khadi will be the sun of the whole industrial solar system.