Guangyi Quotes & Sayings

So many things are unexplainable, and how is it that we know a life, except that we know our own, and it is brought into focus by the death of those around us. (less) — Colum McCann

There is a light seed grain inside. You fill it with yourself, or it dies. — Rumi

Those who know you don't need explanations, those who don't won't believe you. — Chris Geiger

'Firewall' seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides 'military' and 'government?' — Adam McKay

It's hard to imagine that our love is a story with an end. But you know, at least I'm getting some really good songs out of it — Miley Cyrus

When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires. — Jeanette Winterson

In the early 1990s we witnessed the emergence of a revitalized contemporary Chinese art world that began as a reaction against the government-approved Social Realist style. Zhang Xiaogang, Huang Yong Ping, Ai WeiWei, Yue Minjun, and Wang Guangyi were among the first group of artists to establish a movement that became known as Cynical Realism. — Arne Glimcher

The family was ordained of God that children might be trained up for himself; it was before the church, or rather the first form of the church on earth. — Pope Leo XIII

I believe all of us only use one tenth of our brain. I know people who use one per cent only! — Ridley Scott

My primary goal of hacking was the intellectual curiosity, the seduction of adventure. — Kevin Mitnick

It's very hard to find a pianist that's willing to play the so-called accompanist role on part of the program and yet be capable of being a great solo pianist that you would want for the big sonatas. — Joshua Bell

In this world of ours,
We eat only to cast out,
Sleep only to wake,
And what comes after all that
Is simply to die at last. — Matsuo Basho

No man is a hero to his valet de chamber — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope. — George Santayana

All games have morals; and the game of Snakes and Ladders captures, as no other activity can hope to do, the eternal truth that for every ladder you climb, a snake is waiting just around the corner; and for every snake, a ladder will compensate. But it's more than that; no mere carrot-and-stick affair; because implicit in the game is the unchanging twoness of things, the duality of up against down, good against evil; the solid rationality of ladders balances the occult sinuosities of the serpent; in the opposition of staircase and cobra we can see, metaphorically, all conceivable oppositions, Alpha against Omega, father against mother; here is the war of Mary and Musa, and the polarities of knees and nose ... but I found, very early in my life, that the game lacked one crucial dimension, that of ambiguity - because, as events are about to show, it is also possible to slither down a ladder and climb to triumph on the venom of a snake ... — Salman Rushdie

When the hypocrisy of life appears we often fail to recognise it or the question it raises — Jeremy Griffith