Pudong Quotes & Sayings

It's a little hard to speak when you're not supposed to move. — Laurie Anderson

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. — Baltasar Gracian

Historically, there has been a bull market in commodities every 20 or 30 years. — Jim Rogers

One especially prominent time loop lashes together two of the city's most celebrated high-rises -- the Park Hotel and the Jin Mao Tower -- binding the Puxi of Old Shanghai with the Pudong New Area. Each was the tallest Shanghai building of its age (judged by highest occupied floor), the Park Hotel for five decades, the Jin Mao Tower for just nine years. This discrepancy masks a deeper time-symmetry in the completion dates of the two buildings: the Park Hotel seven years prior to the closing of the city (with the Japanese occupation of the International Settlement in 1941), the Jin Mao Tower seven years after the city's formal re-opening (as the culmination of Deng Xiaoping's Southern Tour, in 1992). — Nick Land

To live is to walk beside Death but never join hands. ~ Captain Buck "Slackeye" Roberts — Kai McCarthy

No matter how much we have in common with someone, we will always have something that sets us apart; makes us different; unique. This is a good thing. Just think how boring the world would be if everyone were all the same! — Raven Williams

He slipped his hand under hers and bowed his head over it. His breath touched her skin and sent a tingling sensation up her arm. — Melanie Dickerson

They wanted to carry her, but she jumped to the stones of the plaza and strode away from the building, toward her ranks, which parted to make way for her. The streets of Pudong were filled with hungry and terrified refugees, and through them, in simple peasant clothes streaked with the blood of herself and of others, broken shackles dangling from her wrists, followed by her generals and ministers, walked the barbarian Princess with her book and her sword. — Neal Stephenson