Cantonese Language Quotes

#1. There are a lot of colloquialisms in the Cantonese language that can never be represented aptly in Mandarin.

Jia Zhangke

#2. If Stain was such a bad guy why do all these people attribute to him quotes he didn't make or change his actual quotes just enough to make them seem bad? Seem bad rather than visionary.

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin

#3. To make a successful film from a successful play is probably much more difficult than making one from scratch, just as any carpenter will tell you that it is more difficult to restore an old house than to build a comparable new one.

Edmund Morgan

#4. What is the French word for rain? Le rain? La rain? Is the rain masculine or feminine? It's such a bother that it must be masculine.

Libba Bray

#5. I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.

E. O. Wilson

#6. Ah, what broken creatures we are, and how we endure.

Anne Rice

#7. The human race is intoxicated with narrow victories, for life is a string of them like pearls that hit the floor when the rope breaks, and roll away in perfection and anarchy.

Mark Helprin