Chinese Man Quotes

#1. The loneliest Chinese man I ever met lived halfway up the Three Gorges, in Sichuan Province.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#2. As long as I have the talent and there's a demand for the old Chinese man - whether he's a philosopher, or a master, or an old-time restaurant owner, or a villain, or a so-called good guy - I will always be working.

James Hong

#3. Just because I have rice on my clothes doesn't mean I've been to a wedding. A Chinese man threw up on me.

Phyllis Diller

#4. You can't take no Chinese man and give him no Puerto Rican woman and talking like they're in love and emotionally in love and physically.

Muhammad Ali

#5. Fly you crows. My father was not a spectacle. He was the greatest man I ever knew. He was my everything.

Stacey Lee

#6. The ward designs were co-created by myself and Lauren K. Cannon. She read how they were described in 'The Warded Man,' and we had long discussions about what sources to draw from for the symbols, drawing inspiration from Arabic, Japanese, Chinese and Sanskrit.

Peter V. Brett

#7. Different Chinese philosophers, writing probably in 5-4 centuries B.C., presented some major ideas and a way of life that are nowadays known under the name of Taoism, the way of correspondence between man and the tendency or the course of natural world.

Alan Watts

#8. Singing songs like 'The Man I Love' or 'Porgy' is no more work than sitting down and eating Chinese roast duck, and I love roast duck.

Billie Holiday

#9. Navarette, a Chinese missionary, agrees with Leibniz and says that It is the special providence of God that the Chinese did not know what was done in Christendom; for if they did, there would be never a man among them, but would spit in our faces.

Matthew Tindal

#10. Just at the moment he's writing a book on famine - goodness! it's sad - and there's a dear little Chinese comrade who comes and tells him what famine is like, you never saw such a fat man in your life.

Nancy Mitford

#11. Never admire a man by his strength; judge him in how he uses it- A way is made by walking it

Zhuangzi

#12. In the rural South, 'Bubba' is like how people say 'dude' in California. It's a name for a regular Southern man. I know a Chinese Bubba, a black Bubba.

Bubba Sparxxx

#13. I find it more credible, since it is anterior information, that one man should know heaven, as the Chinese say, than that so many men should know the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#14. If my mom was made, you'd hear wild and crazy Chinese. If it was my dad, he got his white man voice on.

Eddie Huang

#15. For years, I looked to Bruce Lee as a mentor as being a Chinese and Asian man living in this country.

Donnie Yen

#16. I grew up with a fascination with Marco Polo. I had this unlikely interest in the East as a young man, and you can't really read about Chinese history and philosophy without encountering him at every turn.

John Fusco

#17. Allie put her chin on his shoulder to look into the carton. He had great shoulders and Chinese food. At the moment, he was the perfect man.

Jennifer Crusie

#18. Who is this man?'
'Chinaman, or rather half Chinese and half German. Got a daft name. Calls himself Doctor No - Doctor Julius No.'
'No? Spelt like Yes?'
'That's right.

Ian Fleming

#19. I read in that Voyages in China that the Chinese say a white man smells like a corpse.

James Joyce

#20. All of Chinese thinking - Confucianism, Taoism, as well as Buddhism - contains the idea that in the course of life, man will shape harmoniously those psychic and physical predispositions that he received as capital assets by unifying them and giving them form from within a center.

Richard Wilhelm

#21. Unlike my father and millions of Chinese, everyone in America - every man, woman and child, whether rich or poor - has the freedom to choose, freedom to shape his or her own destiny. Don't you agree that you can better manage your own life than other people can?

Helen Raleigh

#22. Many simple peoples feared the exceptional individual as a disintegrating force; there is a Chinese proverb that "the great man is a public misfortune.

Will Durant

#23. When you are the only laowai in a village of 10,000 Chinese martial artists and you've sat through several dozen films where a white man shouts, "You Chinese dog," before getting his ass kicked, it starts to irritate you. We all need role models.

Matthew Polly

#24. As far as being a deliveryman is concerned, I see nothing wrong with being a delivery man. You know, black or white or Hispanic or Chinese or whatever, you know? It's a job.

Meshach Taylor

#25. You know the world is messed up when the tallest man in the NBA is Chinese, the best golfer is black, and the best rapper is white.

Chris Rock

#26. For instance, Visser, the Dutchman, had sold German machine guns to the Chinese, spied for the Japanese and served a term of imprisonment for killing a coolie in Batavia. He was not an easy man to handle.

Eric Ambler

#27. A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.
- Chinese proverb

Alvin Toffler

#28. Never forget a man who holds a secret holds power. A Chinese proverb says: "If women want to keep a secret, one of them must die." What a splendid prospect, I thought! So far I have not heard one single encouraging word about this job.

John Eppler

#29. To quote Shirley Polanski, head waitress at the Humdinger Diner: "Beware of a big man whose stomach doesn't move when he laughs."
I think a Chinese philosopher said it first, but these things trickle down to the food service community.

Joan Bauer

#30. Looking down at the Chinese officer who was trying to gather his entrails with his hands. Suriyawong had the irrational thought that the man ought really to wash his organs before jamming them back into his abdomen. It was so unsanitary.

Orson Scott Card

#31. Anyone will be glad to admit that he knows nothing about beagling, or the Chinese stock market, or ballistics, but there is not a man or woman alive who does not claim to know how to cure hiccoughs.

Robert Benchley

#32. Success and accomplishments aren't the golden "good life" goals. Instead, having a good life is simple. For an old man to be happy, he just wants to watch the fireworks with his granddaughter on Chinese New Year's Eve.

Marcella Purnama

#33. One conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study in a public school.

D.B. Patterson

#34. In The Pickwick Papers, a man is said to have read up in the Britannica on Chinese metaphysics. There was, however, no such article: He read for metaphysics under the letter M, and for China under the letter C, and combined his information.

James Gleick

#35. There's a Chinese proverb that says it all: Painting is an old man's art.

David Hockney

#36. The Chinese philosopher Mencius believed that man is innately good. He argued that anyone who saw a child falling into a well would immediately feel shock and alarm, and that this impulse, this universal capacity for commiseration, was proof positive that man is inherently good.

T. Greenwood

#37. I want to be in 'Avatar'. I want somebody to hire me to be Superman, a Chinese Superman or Spider-Man.

Jackie Chan

#38. The great Chinese classics have always said that it's better not to fight; that the clever man achieves his ends without violence; that a battle delayed is better than a battle fought.

John Keegan

#39. Siarad Cymraeg?" said Old Shacob.
"He wants to know if you speak Welsh," said the surveyor.
"NO!" yelled the official at the old man before him.
"Tamn it all; his language, man!" shouted Dan. "What you expect in Wales - Chinese, or what?!

Geraint Goodwin

#40. In Chinese, the character for woman was a man on his knees

Karen Joy Fowler

#41. Um ... is that thing tame?" Frank said.
The horse whinnied angrily.
"I don't think so," Percy guessed. "He just said, 'I will trample you to death, silly Chinese Canadian baby man'.

Rick Riordan