Cheongsam Quotes

#1. For Fleur de Chine, I imagined the romantic and mysterious women from Asia's cinematic past-from the '30s femme fatale in a cheongsam and dark lipstick, to the'60s Hong Kong heroine of In the Mood for Love. I wanted to capture that fascinating, exquisite and slightly scandalous femininity.

Tom Ford

#2. I needed an adult female wearing a tight sleeveless cheongsam mini-dress to help me learn Chinese. All my senses would have to focus; otherwise I would end up knowing nothing. Tracing each Chinese character upon the small of her back with my index finger was only proper way to begin a lesson.

Matt Muller

#3. Books have played a role in almost every one of the world's great civil and human rights movements, but only because people who read them decided to act. Reading brings with it responsibility.

Will Schwalbe

#4. As long as we love, we lend to the beloved object qualities of mind and heart which we deprive him of when the day of misunderstanding arrives.

Philibert Joseph Roux

#5. He was taught early that magic reclaimed magic, and earth reclaimed earth, the two dividing when the body died, the person they had combined to be simply forfeit, lost. Nothing lasted. Nothing remained.

V.E Schwab

#6. I don't think anybody can claim success at any part of our lives, private or professional, if there are others that don't enjoy the same opportunities.

Jose Andres

#7. Indeed, linear extrapolations make no large-scale sense in a universe that has spatial and temporal curvature.

Peter J. Carroll

#8. You yourself are even another little world and have within you the sun and the moon and also the stars.

Origen

#9. For the sake of our security, our economy and our planet, we must have the courage and commitment to change.

Barack Obama

#10. When children say it's time to leave, they mean, "It's time to leave." When grownups say so, they really mean, "It's time to begin thinking about leaving sometime in the near future.

Andrew Peterson

#11. I tried to sketch but couldn't. When I started to draw, the pencil moved by itself, propelled by something hideous that lived inside of me.

Ruta Sepetys

#12. Mostly you are what they think you are.

Neil Gaiman

#13. Nicholas Sparks and John Green are very different writers.

Ansel Elgort