Chinglish Quotes & Sayings

There have been many many times where the uncertainty of life has made me want to force roots into the soil I'm currently standing on - because I'd rather have roots in any soil - than none at all. I hate living with unknowns. — Katie Kiesler

Real search is about providing valuable information when it's really needed to those who are actually looking for it. — David Amerland

I visited a new cultural center in Shanghai in 2005 that was pretty much perfect, except for the really badly translated Chinglish signs: a handicapped restroom that said 'Deformed Man's Toilet,' that kind of thing. — David Henry Hwang

I believe in the vows that I took with my wife. Through sickness, in health, for richer or poorer. — Michael Schiavo

Even if you're lucky to have a play on Broadway like 'Chinglish,' you don't necessarily earn enough off it to support the years it takes to get there. — David Henry Hwang

But the real way to get happiness is by giving out happiness to other people. Try and leave this world a little better than you found it and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate you have not wasted your time but have done your best. — Baden Powell

Everybody could write, deejay, rap. Everybody could do it all. — Talib Kweli

The thing that struck me was his intensity. Whatever he was interested in he would generally carry to an irrational extreme." Jobs had honed his trick of using stares and silences to master other people. " One of his numbers was to stare at the person he was talking to. He would stare into their fucking eyeballs, ask some question, and would want a response without the other person averting their eyes. — Walter Isaacson

In the morning light, I remembered how much I loved the sound of wind through the trees. I laid back and closed my eyes, and I was comforted by the sound of a million tiny leaves dancing on a summer morning. — Patrick Carman

I'm looked upon as a theater actor who happened to know martial arts before I got into the movies. — Thomas Ian Griffith

Women do love each other; this whole women-against-each other, 'Dynasty' thing ... we're not all after each other. — Bonnie Somerville

My new play 'Chinglish,' which will go to Broadway, is about a white American businessman who goes to a provincial capital in China, hoping to make a deal there. It's bilingual. And it's about trying to communicate across language and cultural barriers. — David Henry Hwang

Seek First God's Kingdom And His Righteousness — Sunday Adelaja

Time is but a thought, a means of measurement, not a reality. — Antiphon

Not to mention the fact that your uncle seems determined to drink away the coffers of House Jacos." Another swig of gin. Coriane almost laughed at the irony. "How selfish. — Victoria Aveyard

Oh my goodness gracious, what you can buy off the Internet in terms of overhead photography. A trained ape can know an awful lot of what is going on in this world, just by punching on his mouse, for a relatively modest cost. — Donald Rumsfeld