Famous Quotes & Sayings

My grandfather was originally from the south of China before he emigrated to Malaysia pre-World War II. And I wanted to learn more about the history of the country of my ancestors. I knew I wanted a narrative set in contemporary Beijing. I was really interested in the effect of the rapid social and economic change on ordinary citizens in China.

Gary Wright

My voice hasn't changed really very much. I still do all my songs when I perform live and still do them in the original keys. I've been blessed with that ability to retain that.

We have shown that there have been large fluctuations in water availability on a decadal to centennial time scale and that these changes occurred due to natural oscillations in climate.

This really is a reflection of what is momentous change in our science.

When you have stocks that are doubling in value in a few weeks when there's no significant change in fundamentals, that's all you can hope for. It's not worth hanging onto any longer.

There are intense talks going on. They are trying very hard to see if they can make last-minute changes for the Sunni Arabs.

We think we can change things and make the service self-supporting. It can be run in a manner that makes it self-sufficient.

Pearl S. Buck

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Those who wanted a change in the chancellory have failed grandiosely,

Sam Mendes

We did ask, ... And luckily, instead of saying, 'Well, maybe, if you make a few adjustments,' there was some intelligent person at the Pentagon who flat-out said, 'No way.' Which is what you want, because there are lots of stories about them saying yes, then at the last minute wanting changes and, before you know it, everything's compromised.