Chinese Quotes - page 7

I wanted to do something far from my intellectual and physical home, so I went to live in Beijing for eight months and took Mandarin Chinese. (Mira Sorvino)
My major in college was Chinese Studies. It was very intentional. View quote
Mira Sorvino
The first time I walked into the Olympic athlete village seeing the Visa ATM machine with my picture on it and the Chinese characters saying "Destiny." For some reason, it just boosted my confidence and it was before I had even worked out or had my first training or competed. View quote
Nastia Liukin
Singapore has been incredibly well-managed. It was created out of the swamp, with a strong emotional idea: a safe place for mostly Chinese, but accepting other cultures and other races. View quote
Nicolas Berggruen
Branding is not merely about differentiating products; it is about striking emotional chords with consumers. It is about cultivating identity, attachment, and trust to inspire customer loyalty. Chinese brands score low on attributes such as 'sophisticated,' 'desirable,' 'innovative,' 'friendly,' and 'trustworthy.' View quote
Nirmalya Kumar
I'm about as Chinese as Herbert Hoover. View quote
Paul Muni
So high do these plants stand in the favour of the Chinese gardener, that he will cultivate them extensively, even against the wishes of his employer; and, in many instances, rather leave his situation than give up the growth of his favourite flower. View quote
Robert Fortune
The dwarfed trees of the Chinese and Japanese have been noticed by every author who has written upon these countries, and all have attempted to give some description of the method by which the effect is produced. View quote
Robert Fortune
A small species of pinus was much prized, and, when dwarfed in the manner of the Chinese, fetched a very high price; it is generally grafted on a variety of the stone pine. View quote
Robert Fortune
Stunted varieties were generally chosen, particularly if they had the side branches opposite or regular, for much depends upon this; a one-sided tree is of no value in the eyes of the Chinese. View quote
Robert Fortune
The Chinese, by their favourite system of dwarfing, contrive to make it, when only a foot and a half or two feet high, have all the characters of an aged cedar of Lebanon. (Robert Fortune)
And I managed to arrange to get some research support and to stay in Hong Kong for another year and a half, interviewing people coming out of China, both Westerners and Chinese. And that was my first real research study on thought reform or so-called brainwashing. View quote
Robert Jay Lifton
I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation. View quote
Robert Morgan
Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later. View quote
Robert Morgan
At midnight on July 1, 1997, Hongkong, the British Crown Colony, will be restored to China. This is not only an event which will be celebrated by patriotic Chinese; any patriotic American should celebrate it as well. View quote
Robert Trout
I was deposed in association with a case involving the Golden Venture, a ship which smuggled Chinese aliens into the United States about eight or nine ago. View quote
Rand Beers
We'd go out in Larry's hippie van and drive out all around Dallas. He loved Chinese food, he'd go in and say. Remember me Major Nelson, me and my friends here are making this show called Dallas, have you got a table for us? It would work every time. View quote
Steve Kanaly
I'm of Filipino, Spanish, and Chinese descent, and was raised on Hawaii. View quote
Tia Carrere
So I went to the Chinese restaurant and this duck came up to me with a red. View quote
Tim Vine
In Asia, red is the colour of joy; red is the colour of festivities and of celebration. In Chinese culture, blue is the colour of mourning. View quote
Vincent Tan
We've already seen proliferation. We started it with Britain, then France. Then we benignly let the Israelis do it. The Pakistanis and the Indians have recently done it. The Chinese have nuclear weapons. (William Odom)
If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse. View quote
Yusuf Hamied
I must stick with Chinese language films. View quote
Zhang Yimou
There's nothing in Chinese culture that is an equivalent of the geisha. It's so different, so special to Japan. View quote
Zhang Ziyi
It's not that I wanted to be an actor; it's that I didn't want to be a dancer! I was trained in traditional Chinese dance, and after working so hard it seemed unfair to just disappear into a group. View quote
Zhang Ziyi