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.

Jack Ma

What we are doing is to design an on-line search engine for ordinary people, not just the engineers. We are more focused and a totally search engine technology will come to the Chinese market within three to five years.

Timbaland

I listen to a lot of alternative types of music: I listen to a lot of Chinese music, I listen to a lot of Asian music. It might surprise you, but I listen to a lot of Arabic music. And I don't care - music is music.

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.

Jan Blasko

Higher interest equals higher risks - the Chinese will need time to get used to the concept.

Sellapan Ramanathan

China also has moved away from its original status of purely producing basic, what you call, consumer commodities and Chinese companies are moving beyond China to various parts of the world.

Rebecca MacKinnon

In China's big cities, American products - say, for instance, Proctor and Gamble shampoos or many other goods - are widely coveted by a lot of Chinese consumers.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.

Jose Rizal

There now exists a factor which was formerly lacking - the spirit of the nation has been aroused, and a common misfortune, a common debasement, has united all the inhabitants of the Islands.

H. Hunt

Common sense and briefings tell us at ground zero it will take folks longer to get back home, but not because of contamination -- it's because of the process,

George Bernard Shaw

Common people do not pray; they only beg.

James Zogby

common consensus of Arab-Americans and Jewish-Americans for a just solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Sean Penn

Turning one's back on stardom might be the highest form of common sense. One that I would aspire to be more complete with.

Mickey Sherman

We wanted 12 intelligent people with a lot of common sense. Boy, it looks like we got what we wanted. It's an ideal jury.

Walter Moloney

This type of restrictions are not common in town houses or single-family developments.

Dr. Irwin

(We) found very little evidence for the efficacy of these over-the-counter cough preparations for cough due to the common cold.

Morris Gleitzman

I used to get stuck trying to find the first sentence of a story, then I realised that it was often because I didn't know what problem a character was facing in the story. As soon as I did, I could have the character trying to do something about it or have the problem whack him between the eyes.

Lori Wada

You must register. Otherwise, you will be facing this kind of prison term.

Geoffrey Smith

We don't want people to panic, but they need to realize we're facing a very grave situation.

Brian Dawkins

We mixed it up. When you're facing that kind of coverage, maybe (Moss) doesn't go out and run like he usually would run. In his mind, he's thinking, well, I can't get past. It takes a weapon away from that offense.

Paul Wolfowitz

We are in a new era, we are facing new risks, and we must have new capabilities, ... As an alliance, we have never been stronger.

Pat Robertson

I apologized and I said I will be praying for him, but one day we will be staring nuclear weapons and it won't be (Hurricane) Katrina facing New Orleans, it's going to be a Venezuelan nuke.

Andruw Jones

It's going to be nice, but we're still facing Pedro tonight.

Joe Papin

Tomorrow we have even a tougher task. We are probably going to be facing a stronger team. We have to play for three periods no matter what the score is. You would think being 14-0 I would be happy, but right now I'm not.

Stewart Udall

The choice facing the American people is not between growth and stagnation, but between short-term growth and long-term disaster.

Charles Howard

Once we started doing those three things, we got going.

Andrew Walpole

There would not be any replacements for Vaughan as we have already got three newcomers.

Jamie Redknapp

Gareth Bale literally has three lungs

Tom Lehrer

On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away.

Robert Burns

To make three guineas do the work of five.

Sinead O'Connor

I've been married three times, really I should only have been married once.

Matsuo Basho

He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.

Laura Linney

I could have gone to the gym for three hours a day and bought into all that, but I just wasn't interested.

John Piper

God is always doing 10,000 things in your life, and you may be aware of three of them.