Chinoiseries Quotes & Sayings

There are photographers who push for war because they make stories. They search for a Chinese who has a more Chinese are than the others and they end up finding one. They have him take a typically Chinese pose and surround him with chinoiseries. What have they captured on their film? A Chinese? Definitely not: the idea of the Chinese. — Jean-Paul Sartre

When we commit to a spouse for life, we are agreeing to enter a sacred union between two sinners and Jesus, and when you've got two sinners walking together over the years, you will see just how sinful he or she - and you - can be. — Matt Chandler

My earliest poems appear almost skeletal to me now - it seems I've learned to add meat, muscle and a nice suit of clothes. — Wanda Lea Brayton

Not to be born at all
Is best, far best that can befall,
Next best, when born, with least delay
To trace the backward way.
For when youth passes with its giddy train,
Troubles on troubles follow, toils on toils,
Pain, pain forever pain;
And none escapes life's coils.
Envy, sedition, strife,
Carnage and war, make up the tale of life. — Sophocles

I think "honest" sometimes gets used to describe a real depiction of real life. I don't think that's necessarily what we're doing. We created these fake characters and we're just trying to figure out what they would do in situations they enter into. — Paul Rust

Happiness is like a kiss, in order to get any good out of it, you have to give it to someone else. — Zig Ziglar

I was fighting with Thoby on the lawn. We were pommelling each other with our fists. Just as I raised my fist to hit him, I felt: why hurt another person? I dropped my hand instantly, and stood there, and let him beat me. I remember the feeling. It was a feeling of hopeless sadness. It was as if I became aware of something terrible; and of my own powerlessness. I slunk off alone, feeling horribly depressed. — Virginia Woolf

Eating with children at a restaurant is like eating with a live grenade. It's going to explode every time. You just don't know when. — Matthew Norman

Ego has no senses. — Toba Beta

Envy was just the tax you paid on success. — David Nicholls

Music can be healing, and with my history and my knowledge of both sides of what looks like a gigantic divide in the world, I feel I can point a way forward to our common humanity again. — Cat Stevens

Dream, Believe, Create, Inspire, Love, Heal...succeed. — Jennifer St. Giles