Pudong Shanghai Quotes & Sayings

To begin with, let us take the following motto ... Literature is Love. Now we can continue. — Vladimir Nabokov

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

You can find virtually everybody black back as far as the 1870 census. Why 1870? That's when the ex-slaves first have surnames. But if you find your great-great-grandfather in 1870 and it says he's 50, that means he was born in 1820 and you're back to 1820 already. For an American that's pretty damned good, you know? — Henry Louis Gates

It sucks, but no Long Islands or margaritas when you drink. It has to be straight vodka. — Nicole Polizzi

I think a few hundred years from now we'll start having the 'posthuman' era of different species. — Martin Rees

Whatever judgment we make is a subjective one we're making now, and that it could change. — Bernie Glassman

Its more a trance, jonah said. the whole world is pressing in on me, like a weight on my chest, slowly pushing me down ans down. and there's nothing between me and this weight but my flimsy skin. Its not enough. It won't protect me. It doesn't keep anything out. The outside will keep pressing until my ribs are crushed. — Natalie Standiford

The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love. — Albert Camus

There does not exist a painter who knows himself or knows what he is doing. — Marcel Duchamp

He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

It better to have one talent and use it, than to have a thousand unused. — Matshona Dhliwayo

There's water in my bones
a ghost of a chance — Michael Ondaatje

The child who is permitted to torment, or destroy, the minutest object in creation, who will wantonly tread upon a worm, or unhumanly pass a pin through the body of a fly, will in all probabiilty, as he increases in years, feel no more compunction at tormenting a fellow-creature, than he did in witnessing the wreathing agonies of a fly. — Laetitia Pilkington