Chinese Quotes

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word "crisis." One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity.

When I was given this job I said I would only teach the people that I truly, truly love. Unfortunately, none of those happen to be Chinese, or women.

The Chinese say that water is the most powerful element, because it is perfectly nonresistant. It can wear away a rock, and sweep all before it.

The Chinese do not draw any distinction between food and medicine.

Everyone eats and drinks; yet only few appreciate the taste of food.

Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.” - Chinese proverb

After all, what is every man? A horde of ghosts - like a Chinese nest of boxes - oaks that were acorns that were oaks. Death lies behind us, not in front - in our ancestors, back and back until.

We've got Chinese, white, black and mixed; but remember that our colors are cheap, for after many years of contracts and tricks nobody's purity runs very deep.

If I need to buy a TV, I'll definitely buy a Japanese TV. A Chinese TV might explode.

The Chinese government thinks China and the U.S. should develop a constructive relationship of cooperation.

I want to become a student. I want to read Chinese history and go on a dig.

Foreign capital to build new cinemas will help modernize China's aging cinema infrastructure, attract Chinese consumers back into cinemas, and increase demand for U.S. films.

I would love to learn other languages, maybe French? My uncle speaks German so maybe also German? Chinese seems to be too difficult.

With all my heart I beseech and beg my two hundred million female compatriots to assume their responsibility as citizens. Arise! Arise! Chinese women, arise!

You can't get good Chinese takeout in China and Cuban cigars are rationed in Cuba. That's all you need to know about communism.

Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.

If one's bowels move, one is happy, and if they don't move, one is unhappy. That is all there is to it.

To ancient Chinese fancy, the Milky Way was a luminous river, - the River of Heaven, - the Silver Stream.

I was so tired of the parts I had to play. There seems little for me in Hollywood, because, rather than real Chinese, producers prefer Hungarians, Mexicans, American Indians for Chinese roles.

Tibet has a very proud people but it's culturally gone and overrun ever since the Chinese took over. It's like saving the rhino. When a species is endangered, it's gone.

I’m actually trying to make sense of the world. There’s nothing cynical or absurd in what I do.

In Chinese, the word for heart and mind is the same -- Hsin. For when the heart is open and the mind is clear they are of one substance, of one essence.

I love the Chinese words for greeting: not strictly 'Hello' but 'Have you eaten yet?

Science has already proven the dangers of smoking, alcohol, and Chinese food, but I can still ruin soft drinks for everyone!.

Like all Jews, I was probably at a Chinese restaurant!

What would we say if the Chinese sent a gunboat with their marines up the Mississippi River claiming they were protecting their laundries in Memphis?

The real Zen of the old Chinese masters was wu-shih, or "no fuss."

Too many cooks spoil the broth

Happiness for me is largely a matter of digestion.

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.

Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody member of the public or half-educated ape of a clargimint could think he understood.

The Chinese people, too, went through all kinds of vicissitudes in their religious development.

Sticks and stones may break your bones, but Chinese throwing stars get you a dozen stitches.

To me, Toronto is a good party city, I think Vancouver has the best smoke, you know. And then, Montreal has the best..uh..Chinese food?

My works are Chinese literature, which is part of world literature. They show the life of Chinese people as well as the country's unique culture and folk customs.

On Easter or Christmas Day, my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist temple, the Chinese New Year celebration, the Shinto shrine, and ancient Hawaiian burial sites.

90% of toys are made in china, which technically makes the chinese elves

Early Chinese thinkers had taken variety at face value. They had favored diversification and collected anomalies instead of trying to explain them away.

The Chinese soldier was tough, brave, and experienced. After all he had been fighting on his own without help for years. He was a veteran among the Allies.

Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication.

I eat at this German-Chinese restaurant and the food is delicious. The only problem is that an hour later you're hungry for power.

For years, I looked to Bruce Lee as a mentor as being a Chinese and Asian man living in this country.

Never hesitate to ask a lesser person.

The spark from a tiny star can ignite the plains.

What we do in our group is the opposite of the bad effects of globalization. We produce in Italy and in France and we sell to China, when usually it's the opposite.

There is a phrase in Chinese, 'Resolve is victory.'

Chopsticks or no chopsticks, it was the Chinese who first used knives and forks.

It is not wise for Chinese to do things to artificially disrupt relations with the U.S.

Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.

Singing songs like 'The Man I Love' or 'Porgy' is no more work than sitting down and eating Chinese roast duck, and I love roast duck.