Liao 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

This is a life, he thought, smooth skipping stones bounding across the surfaces of time, with brief moments of deepened consciousness as you hit the water before going airborne again, flying across the carpool lane, over weeks at a desk, enjoying yourself when the skipping stopped, and spending the rest of your life in a kind of drifting contentment, slipped consciousness, lost weekends, the glow from the television sets warming placid faces, smile lines growing in the glare of the screen. — Jess Walter

Children should be seen and not herded — Bill Liao

Soon, all that was permitted to be taught was the chairman's Little Red Book. Chairman Mao's quotes were treated like the words of God. — Liao Yiwu

Beauty doesn't last. It's bound to be destroyed. — Liao Yiwu

People that are only there during the good times suck. I've had enough leeches in my life, and I'm grateful for the friends I have now. It hasn't escaped my notice that the people that I like the most are the kind that have been beaten by this life and didn't lie down, face first, in the dust. We gravitate toward one another. Maybe no one has an ordinary life, but since that's what I'm striving for, I'd rather not think about it. Chasing something that doesn't exist would completely suck. — H.M. Ward

Linguists are no different from any other people who spend more than nineteen hours a day pondering the complexities of grammar and its relationship to practically everything else in order to prove that language is so inordinately complicated that it is impossible in principle for people to talk. — Ronald W. Langacker

I'm not sayin I'm a pothead, cause I'm not.
I'm just sayin that I smoke a lot. — Keith Murray

Liao writes with the courage of a man who knows loss and doesn't fear it. There is nothing to make him notice like an official injunction against noticing, nothing to make him listen like official deafness, nothing that drives him to make us see like the blindness that officialdom seeks to impose. — Liao Yiwu

Without movement there is no Life ... We should use our energy to the fullest. — Ai Qing

And let me tell you 'Kingdom of God' language is really big in the emerging church. — Doug Pagitt

Times have changed. Everyone talks about money and nobody cares about Communism anymore. — Liao Yiwu

I rolled my eyes. "For defending my honor, you dullard."
He yanked me beneath a shadowed awning. I had a moment's panic when I thought he'd spotted trouble, but then his arms were around me and his lips were pressed to mine.
When he finally drew back, my cheeks were warm and my legs had gone wobbly.
"Just to be clear," he said, "I'm not really interested in defending your honor."
"Understood," I managed, hoping I didn't sound too ridiculously breathless. — Leigh Bardugo

You don't ever know what anyone's really like,' I said
'Cause you do.'
'How?'
'They tell you; you tell them.'
'That's assuming you're honest. What if you lie?'
'Why would you want to lie? — Tim Relf

Where did you get the meat from? Mo Erwa answered calmly: We just boiled our three-year-old daughter. — Liao Yiwu

No society can flourish of which the greater part is poor and miserable — Adam Smith

It cannot be when the root is neglected that what springs from it will be well ordered. — Confucius

This was the first time ever, since the legendary Pangu created the world, that suona players and professional funeral wailers were dueling for territory. — Liao Yiwu