Famous Quotes & Sayings

Darin Strauss

I delivered Chinese food on Long island, which is pretty depressing. I lived with my parents and did that for six months. I got a job a few towns over from mine so I wouldn't have to see people from my high school.

Rudolph Giuliani

I can understand if the mayor wants to give up takeout Chinese food, but if he wants real food, he should come here.

Hu Shih

Historically, there had been many periods of Chinese Renaissance.

Our hope is that our decision will prove to be the right one. We are not happy about it, but that's the requirement under Chinese law.

Over the last few days we've seen the possibility of further breakthroughs and dialogue dissipate. It seems that Chinese and Russian support have clinched a referral.

Over the centuries, Chinese bureaucrats perfected the dark arts of emptiness to such an extent that when they deliver speeches these days, they often recite verbatim speeches that they have previously delivered, with the sparest of adjustments.

Our target is low-to-medium volume while Chinese manufacturers are interested in high-volume products.

The policy caters to traditional Chinese customs but puts huge pressure on our fire departments. In response to the policy, we had urged fire police at all levels not to leave duty during the festival, and increase patrol frequencies.

Eric Allin Cornell

Six months after that, I left Taiwan, first for Hong Kong and then for mainland China, where I spent another three months studying still more Chinese and generally kicking around the country.

Nicole Mones

You know how someone - something - surprises you. You wake up a little bit. That's done through Chinese cuisine - for example, through dishes of artifice. That's a whole sub-tradition in Chinese cuisine. To create a dish that comes to the table looking like one thing but actually is something else.

Nicole Mones

Food is the main engine that drives connectedness, relationship in Chinese society.

Nicole Mones

Chinese food tries to engage the mind, not just the palate. To provoke the intellect.

Liu Wen

Romantic music really stirs my soul. And, of course, I love Chinese music; it makes me feel closer to home.

Liu Wen

In my school days, everyone thought I'm too tall for a Chinese girl.

I've written a detective series myself, set in an imaginary, and slightly futuristic, Chinese city. The novels have an extremely tenuous relationship with the real world, since the hero is the city's Hell and ends up with a sidekick who is a demon.

We are going to take the fifth title in a row this time, because no team can not stop the Chinese women winning streak.

Today's data confirmed the continued upsurge in Chinese demand, which had slowed during late 2004 and early 2005, as well as firm demand in the US, so Japanese exports are most likely to maintain brisk gains in the near term.

Xi Jinping

In the modern era, our nation experienced constant hardship and difficulties. The Chinese nation reached the most dangerous period. Since then, countless people with lofty ideals to realise the great revival of the Chinese nation rose to resist and fight, but failed one time after another.

Wang Leehom

I've just had a wonderful time doing Chinese music, and it's been so rewarding for me. I feel like there's so much potential in mandarin music, and there's so much, you know, ground left to be broken.

We don't have that much influence over Chinese oil interests. We're watching. That's about all we can do.

The Chinese were good to us. The war years for us Russians in China were very good years.

Yang Lan

I'm very curious to witness the historic transformation of Chinese women.

Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that.

Sacrifices are concerned with the feelings of devotion and longing.

When a man sees something desirable, he must reflect on the fact that with time it could come to involve what is detestable. When he sees something that is beneficial, he should reflect that sooner or later it, too, could come to involve harm.

I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.

If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity.

If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.

If the impulse to daring and bravery is too fierce and violent, stay it with guidance and instruction.

I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.

If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order?

And look at the mess that Russia is; most Chinese don't want to follow that.

The Chinese government since 1979 has been very successful in economic development, and successful enough, simply by surviving, in the realm of political development.