Juan Ekis Quotes & Sayings

In these remote corners, I have discovered a center point, where East met West, and although there has been a collision of cultures, there is now a new Christian identity that is distinctly Chinese.
The circuitous mountain path in Yunnan province is red because over many years it has been soaked with blood. — Liao Yiwu

That's how they hooked you - they gave you just enough to keep alive but they never gave you enough so you could finally escape. — Charles Bukowski

There's a lot of imagination in Asia, and I believe that the next Google will come from there, and the next Pixar. I believe that the great new media companies will come out of Asia and surpass the big media conglomerates that exist right now in the West. — Shekhar Kapur

No peace is impossible when people are determined to achieve it — Desmond Tutu

What really motivates you to try to work things out as an actor is in large part fear, because you want to get into that narrative and bring the audience along. — Annette Bening

I see music as fluid architecture. — Joni Mitchell

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich. — Henry Ward Beecher

The beauty that shimmers in the yellow afternoons of October, who ever could clutch it? — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Where I think that 3D will fall apart is going to be as audiences now get treated to incredibly artistic utilizations of space. I think the films that are just sort of done as 3D transfer type films, the audience will perceive the difference in that. — Christopher Meledandri

And if any of you has a problem with any of it, then it's *your* problem. Being gay is hard enough without having to worry about your family being weird about it. — A.S. King

There is an affinity between falling asleep and dying that cannot be ignored. In fact, the word sleep is commonly used as a euphemism for "death"; we speak of putting a pet to sleep, rather than admitting we have asked a veterinarian to (kindly) kill him or her. — Anonymous

Of everything, for better or worse. A cheater remains a cheater in the same way that an optimist remains an optimist. An optimist is a person who says, after being run over by a drunk driver and having both legs mangled and mortgaging the house to pay the hospital bills: "I was lucky. I could have been killed." To an optimist that kind of statement makes sense. To a cheater it makes sense to be living a double life and talking out of both sides of your mouth at the same time. — A.S.A Harrison