Sichuan Earthquake Quotes & Sayings

Day was excited, nervous, scared, terrified even, that he was about to have Detective Cashel Godfrey laid out, stark naked in his bed and ready for the taking. He'd pictured it a million times in the last four years. — A.E. Via

No art is any good unless you can feel how it's put together. By and large it's the eye, the hand and if it's any good, you feel the body. Most of the best stuff seems to be a complete gesture, the totality of the artist's body; you can really lean on it. — Frank Stella

Already 2008 has proved a tumultuous year in terms of global perceptions of China, and there are still 59 days to go until the Beijing Olympics. The tragedy of the Sichuan earthquake followed hard on the heels of the riots in Tibet and the demonstrations surrounding the Olympic torch relay. — Martin Jacques

A million million years gives us some time to prepare for the end ... let us make the best of it. — Bertrand Russell

Me? You are laughing at me. Put your hand here. This has no theology.' I mocked myself while I made love. I flung myself into pleasure like a suicide on to a pavement. — Graham Greene

The idea to use backpacks came from my visit to Sichuan after the earthquake in May 2008. During the earthquake many schools collapsed. Thousands of young students lost their lives, and you could see bags and study material everywhere. Then you realize individual life, media, and the lives of the students are serving very different purposes. The lives of the students disappeared within the state propaganda, and very soon everybody will forget everything. — Ai Weiwei

Winning is the most important thing in my life, after breathing. Breathing first, winning next. — George Steinbrenner

His distress and pleasure mixed and married, giving birth to several anxious children. — Ann Brashares

If you had to eat another human to survive, do you think they'd taste like their ethnic background? — Daniel Tosh

It takes discipline and compassion to awaken the divine in ourselves long enough to recognize the divine in another. — Mary Anne Radmacher

It's a comfortable thing, music is. — William Faulkner

You can love people, and you can befriend them, but the only person you can ever one hundred percent depend on is yourself. — Trisha Leigh