Taobao Quotes & Sayings

I'm always glad when people come together to help each other - whether they're raising money for somebody in a bad situation or making a creative piece like a song. — Ze Frank

As a novelist you have just unlimited budget, total creative control. You really get to have your cake - all the cake - and then you can have a second cake if you wanted to. — Naomi Novik

Believe in your own identity and your own opinions. Proceed with confidence, generating it, if necessary, by pure willpower. Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it. Use its energy to keep yourself going. — William Zinsser

Without internet, there would have been no Jack Ma, and no Alibaba or Taobao. — Jack Ma

It is not about what we wish for it is about what is really is. — Someone

Writing, which is my form of celebration and prayer, is also my form of inquiry. — Diane Ackerman

Downloading is definitely on the rise, but not because it's free - that's probably third on the list - but because it's immediate and the selection is virtually unlimited. — Don Rose

Our desires are insatiable. We seek from the limited the unlimited. We must fail. Our insatiability is a third incurable defect in human life. — Roberto Mangabeira Unger

And wait for the bus in grey drizzle, arms folded tight around myself, shivering against cold that falls from the sky and sinks deep in my bones. — Teri Terry

I see the great continuities in New Zealand history as being decency and common sense and up until now when we've confronted these things we've been able to talk them through, and I'm sure we will with this issue as well. — Michael King

I like solitude. I'm very good at being disconnected. I do a lot of disappearing. People who know me go, 'Oh yeah, Mailman, she's gone into her cave again.' I'm like that, a bit of a hibernating bear. Like that crocodile that just sits there in the water and doesn't do much. I was always a bit of a dreamer as a kid, so that hasn't changed. — Deborah Mailman