Chinese Tiger Sayings

#1. It is a lovely oddity of human nature that a person is more inclined to interrupt two people in conversation than one person alone with a book.

Amor Towles

#2. Power, power was what I wanted then, sport was what I wanted, I wanted to wring out your tears, your humiliation,

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#3. I am usually protective of my work, not showing it to anyone until it has been redrafted and polished.

Hilary Mantel

#4. Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes.

Jeff

#5. You're right, super-realism is back in style.

Robert Genn

#6. People are intimidated by a man who acts with no apparent regard for consequences. Behave as if you cannot be touched and no one will dare to touch you.

Robin Hobb

#7. Well, that's only part of it. I'm famous because I saved the Emperor and I am ridiculously good looking. And amazingly charming." "And stunningly obnoxious

Emily Wibberley

#8. I cannot help leaving my books behind me whenever God calls me hence; but in every other respect, my own hands will be my executors.

John Wesley

#9. I just wasn't cut out to be a Chinese Tiger Mom. I'm more of an Irish Setter Dad.

P. J. O'Rourke

#10. A radical inner transformation and rise to a new level of consciousness might be the only real hope we have in the current global crisis brought on by the dominance of the Western mechanistic paradigm.

Stanislav Grof

#11. My wish isn't to mean
everything to everyone
but something to someone.

Oscar Wilde

#12. The Republic doesn't exist out here. We must survive on our own.

Shmi Skywalker

#13. I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around, that nothing was more important or less important.

William Eggleston