Chinese Fortune Quotes

#1. Visiting Future World is like opening a Chinese fortune cookie to read, "Soon you'll be finished with dinner."

P. J. O'Rourke

#2. Stunted varieties were generally chosen, particularly if they had the side branches opposite or regular, for much depends upon this; a one-sided tree is of no value in the eyes of the Chinese.

Robert Fortune

#3. Beautiful things like nature inspire me. Sunrise is my favorite time of the day. A sky full of stars can be very inspiring. Quiet moments where you're alone with yourself and the beauty, nature, and majesty that God has created. That is pretty inspiring.

Brooke Burns

#4. The plants which stand next to dwarf trees in importance with the Chinese are certainly chrysanthemums, which they manage extremely well, perhaps better than they do any other plant.

Robert Fortune

#5. Who is it needs such flawless shafts as fate? What archer of his arrows is so choice, or hits the white so surely?

James Russell Lowell

#6. I am when the Chinese, who know everything, build a house, they consult the precepts of an ancient science, Feng Shui, which tells them exactly how, when, and where the work must be done, and so brings good fortune to the home forever.

Jan Morris

#7. Those things that inspire, enthuse, and compel you should consume your life.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#8. So high do these plants stand in the favour of the Chinese gardener, that he will cultivate them extensively, even against the wishes of his employer; and, in many instances, rather leave his situation than give up the growth of his favourite flower.

Robert Fortune

#9. The Chinese, by their favourite system of dwarfing, contrive to make it, when only a foot and a half or two feet high, have all the characters of an aged cedar of Lebanon.

Robert Fortune

#10. I, in the end, make art for myself.

Anish Kapoor

#11. A small species of pinus was much prized, and, when dwarfed in the manner of the Chinese, fetched a very high price; it is generally grafted on a variety of the stone pine.

Robert Fortune

#12. Everybody, even those that don't like Chinese food, knew that you had to eat the cookie for the fortune to come true. And so he did.

Justin Swapp

#13. In 1918, a Chinese immigrant working in a Los Angeles noodle factory invented the fortune cookie. He did so believing that a cookie with a positive message in it would raise the spirits of the city's poor.

James Frey

#14. So, fortune cookies: invented by the Japanese, popularized by the Chinese, but ultimately consumed by Americans. They are more American than anything else.

Jennifer Lee

#15. It's emotional Morphine," he said finally. "Just go with it." And

Tarryn Fisher

#16. To be desired by those who are themselves highly desirable is in itself an aphrodisiac.

Tobsha Learner

#17. When the Greek goddess Hera married Zeus, the goddess Gaia created three golden apples and gave them to Hera as a wedding gift.

Denise Grover Swank

#18. There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft.

Bill Gates

#19. Life had engraved such beauty in those lines of age and wisdom ...

Rosslyn Elliott

#20. The crack in your heart allows light in. ~ GOOD FORTUNE page 238

Leslie Bratspis

#21. People think of fortune cookies as being Chinese, but in essence, they are fundamentally American.

Jennifer Lee

#22. The dwarfed trees of the Chinese and Japanese have been noticed by every author who has written upon these countries, and all have attempted to give some description of the method by which the effect is produced.

Robert Fortune

#23. Fortune cookies are an American invention, and we gave it to them. The Chinese were probably like, "Uh, we don't want it." And we were like, "It's now part of your ethnic identity.

Jim Gaffigan

#24. At the state dinner for Chinese President Hu Jintao, Hu opened a fortune cookie that said, 'You will lend us another trillion dollars.'

Conan O'Brien