Beijing Coma Quotes

#1. In February of this year I returned to China to research my next book. The authorities know about the novels of mine that have been published in the west, including the latest one, Beijing Coma, about a student shot in Tiananmen Square, but so far have allowed me to return.

Ma Jian

#2. Beijing Coma took me 10 years to finish.

Ma Jian

#3. Fine." He smirks at me. "Nice to meet you, Carrots," he says, looking directly at my hair. "Oh, I mean Clara."
My face flames.
"Same to you, Rusty," I shoot back, but he's already striding away.

Cynthia Hand

#4. As a child I wanted to be a ballerina, ice-cream van owner, wife of George Michael, a nun, and a music conductor.

Erin O'Connor

#5. Tennis would be much more exciting if they had pitching machines firing Tennis was given to me to keep me off the street corners of east St. Louis.

Jimmy Connors

#6. As impossible as it may sound, but the CEC uses a calibration gear of 1,000 teeth to project a one day's measure of time (PI) onto a right triangle alongside the speed of light value (x=2.99792458) while uttering thereby the time it takes light to reach Earth coming from the Sun (8.3 minutes).

Ibrahim Ibrahim

#7. If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail. Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.

Akio Morita

#8. One of two historically African American communities that sprang up along the Mississippi Gulf Coast after emancipation, North Gulfport has always been a place where residents have had fewer civic resources than those extended to other outlying communities.

Natasha Trethewey

#9. I'm not technical.

Joaquin Phoenix

#10. Grandpa Patterson used to say: Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear or a fool from any direction.

Debbie Macomber

#11. Charles gave his hat to Mary, set his lapels, wished he were dead, then went down the hall and into his ordeal.

John Fowles

#12. Where loved ones failed you, guardian angels stand ready to catch your fall.

Shannon L. Alder

#13. America will rise again. And hope will rise again.

Barack Obama

#14. I don't have to wait for nobody, I move when I wanna move.

Floyd Mayweather Jr.

#15. Nobody fucks with my girl."
Life snapped back into her mahogany-colored eyes. "I'm not your girl."
"But you will be.

Avery Flynn

#16. Bodies, again,
Are partly primal germs of things, and partly
Unions deriving from the primal germs.

Lucretius

#17. Brooklyn is a very weird borough.

Keeth Smart