Chinese Porcelain Quotes

#1. Chinese porcelain was popular, too. The word comes from the Italian for a cowrie shell; literally, porcellana was a 'little pig', and the connection seems grounded in the glossy shell's resemblance either to a pig's back or to a sow's glisteningly crinkled vagina.35

Henry Hitchings

#2. The school system only recognizes one type of intelligence. There are so many different types of intelligence.

Bruce Springsteen

#3. What's more powerful than a priestess?" I didn't really want to know, did I?
"A bokor."
The name rang a few tiny bells inside my head, but not enough to put it together on my own. "Explain."
"In a nutshell, they're the equivalent of a sorceress, and they deal primarily with the dead.

Amanda Carlson

#4. Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.

T. S. Eliot

#5. It doesn't matter what you love,
it matters only that you love.

Jens Bjorneboe

#6. To kill for fun is the job of the psychopaths! And what is a matador, apart from being a mentally ill person?

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#7. Whenever I have to think to understand what the code is doing, I ask myself if I can refactor the code to make that understanding more immediately apparent.

Martin Fowler

#8. Marketing isn't about technology; it's about people: technology is only interesting, from a marketing perspective, when it connects people with other people more effectively.

Damian Ryan

#9. In the 19th century China dominated the manufacture of porcelain. Then European factories discovered a cheaper method of making pottery of equal quality, demolishing the Chinese industry the exact reverse of what is happening now. World economics have turned full circle.

Martin Sorrell