Dai Quotes

#1. The highest truth is daiji, translated as dai jiki in Chinese scriptures. This is the subject of the question the emperor asked Bodhidharma: "What is the First Principle?" Bodhidharma said, "I don't know." "I don't know" is the First Principle.

Shunryu Suzuki

#2. Mr Zhu says what makes him a diaosi is that he is the son of factory workers. He is not fu er dai - second-generation rich - or guan er dai - the son of powerful government officials (it does not escape a diaosi's notice that those two categories often overlap).

Anonymous

#3. Even if you don't mean it, I want you to take me somewhere and make love to me.
Dai Uie talking to Kane, from Game Boys

Rochelle H. Ragnarok

#4. Remembered what Dai Bingguo had said to me when he pulled out the photograph of his granddaughter: "This is what we're in it for." It

Hillary Rodham Clinton

#5. Dai Vernon, the greatest sleight of hand figure in the history of the art, rarely performed. But he invented magic and had an enormous influence on the whole range of sleight of hand. And so often, the magic he was doing was to fool other magicians.

Ricky Jay

#6. What are the odds that a nuclear emergency like the one at Fukushima Dai-ichi could happen in the central or eastern United States? They'd have to be astronomical, right?

Bill Dedman

#7. It still hurt her to see their poems before her, printed in the curving Yeged-dai script, using Yegedin forms and the images so beloved of the Yegedin: the single pebble, the grasshopper at twilight, the song of a heartbroken lark sitting in a bent tree.

Yoon Ha Lee

#8. Dai Tregarron had called her Olwen, had spoken to her as if she were a creature capable of escape from the commonplace, not the pedestrian, middle-aged woman everyone else saw, incapable of imagination, even less of passion. He had seen who she wanted to be and given the dream a moment's life.

Anne Perry

#9. The queen did not know what to say about a man whose virtue was that he did not beat his wife. "He was even kind to his ponies," Mrs. Dai added. "I'm sure he was," said the queen, back on familiar ground.

Ken Follett

#10. Be careful of him Dai, whether you agree with me or not that boy is a time bomb just waiting to explode, and when he does he's going hit everyone in his way including you ... or especially you.
Benjirou Uie warning Dai about Kane from Game Boys

Rochelle H. Ragnarok

#11. A good magic effect should easily be described in one sentence.

Dai Vernon

#12. Technology is one of the key drivers of female economic empowerment, but the fields that women choose to participate in are still decidedly gendered.

Weili Dai

#13. Henceforth, we shall be happy to be a free citizen in an independent country.

Bao Dai

#14. I believe every single woman could accomplish what I've accomplished.

Weili Dai

#15. Mozart is thinking of Chairman Mao

Dai Sijie

#16. It never made sense to my young mind, how a hurt from so long ago could keep a man from walking right. Stay with him for the rest of his life. But now that I am older, now that I've fought my own wars and fired my own guns, I understand.

Ryan Graudin

#17. I was very fortunate when I was little - I played basketball. You really absolutely learn how to be a team player, how to win a game, to accomplish things, not just for yourself.

Weili Dai

#18. In science, technology, engineering and mathematics, men far outnumber women in the classroom and the boardroom.

Weili Dai

#19. I grew up in a Chinese family where the parents' No. 1 priority is the kids' education.

Weili Dai

#20. We had been so unlucky. By the time we had finally learnt to read properly, there had been nothing left for us to read.

Dai Sijie

#21. Be natural and use your head.

Dai Vernon

#22. Our imagination is dictated by who we are. (198)

Dai Sijie

#23. In the end we had changed the position of the hands so many times that we had no idea what the time really was.

Dai Sijie

#24. Comedy born of bewilderment is the only comedy that should be in magic.

Dai Vernon

#25. In truth, we were similar. Like two sides of a fan, we were at odds with each other, we competed with each other, but our fates similarly rested in the hands of the Emperor--the holder, the commander, the manipulator of our destinies.

Weina Dai Randel

#26. Calligraphy may well be simply an artistic version of another form, that is the ideograms which make up the poem, but then not only does it reflect the character and temperament of the artist but ... also betrays his heart rate, his breathing.

Dai Sijie

#27. In magic, today as always, the effect is what counts. The method or methods used are always purely secondary.

Dai Vernon

#28. In Chinese love stories the one who loves always starts by borrowing a book from the beloved.

Dai Sijie

#29. The side's all right, but my bloody knees are killing me!

Dai Dower

#30. As for us, during twenty years' reign, we have known much bitterness.

Bao Dai

#31. I do not wish a foreign army to spill the blood of my people.

Bao Dai

#32. By the time we arrived the film had already started, and there was only standing room left behind the screen, where everything was in reverse and everyone was left-handed.

Dai Sijie

#33. It would evidently take more than a political regime, more than dire poverty to stop a woman from wanting to be well-dressed: it was a desire as old as the world, as old as the desire for children.

Dai Sijie

#34. In terms of achievement, the pride is very important to me. It keeps me going every day. The money is always second to me.

Weili Dai

#35. I was carried away, swept along by the mighty stream of words pouring from the hundreds of pages. To me it was the ultimate book: once you had read it, neither your own life nor the world you lived in would ever look the same.

Dai Sijie

#36. The mind is led on, step by step, to defeat its own logic.

Dai Vernon

#37. Could I fight against rumor? I did not think so, for rumor had no grave and only bore seeds. It germinated in the air, thrived in the sun, and ripened in the shadows. It would not die in the rain and fly only higher in the wind.

Weina Dai Randel

#38. But this...her...she's more than warmth. She's fire, a soul, a name. Mei Yee reverbs through my head, my veins. Lodges like shrapnel in the far reaches of my chest. More powerful than a pound of C-4. Uncontrollable.

Ryan Graudin

#39. I kept my door more securely locked than ever and passed the time with foreign novels. Since Balzac was Luo's favourite I put him to one side, and with the ardour and earnestness of my eighteen years I fell in love with one author after another: Flaubert, Gogol, Melville, and even Romain Rolland.

Dai Sijie

#40. What the eyes see, the heart must believe.

Dai Vernon

#41. It is hard to have a true friend, and it is harder to be the one ...

Tran Dai Nghia

#42. How are you coming into the effect? How are you getting out?

Dai Vernon

#43. If I could climax as many times as a Derek Dingle routine I would be a happy man!

Dai Vernon

#44. Let students use technologies in the classroom.

Weili Dai

#45. Most magicians consider the palm an easy move to make. They are inclined to believe that they are 'getting away with it,' when they are in fact fortunate enough to have a polite audience.

Dai Vernon

#46. the most prominent feature on his face was his eyebrows. Long and thick, they looked as if a calligrapher had lost control when he drew them.

Weina Dai Randel

#47. I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one.

Bao Dai

#48. She said she had learnt one thing from Balzac: that a woman's beauty is a treasure beyond price.

Dai Sijie

#49. Women have their own strengths, like fashion. In technology, we can contribute in a big way in terms of the design of the user interface.

Weili Dai

#50. If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war.

Bao Dai

#51. The time has come to put an end to the fratricidal war and to recover at last peace and accord.

Bao Dai

#52. In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.

Bao Dai

#53. I believe women are the glue of everything.

Weili Dai

#54. I believe in order to make a friend, you have to be a friend.

Weili Dai

#55. I believe it is in the world's interest to develop environments that fully engage women and leverage their natural talents.

Weili Dai

#56. A lot of people believe women can't do tech-y stuff. Becoming nerdy doesn't have to mean the short-haired guy, but can be the woman with very long, beautiful hair.

Weili Dai

#57. The night garden felt like a home, with the glittering sky for the ceiling, the bushes our rug, and the dilapidated pavilion our bed. He lit up the place like a heart-warming hearth fire. He was the walls of my sanctuary, the food for my eyes, the scent of a home. He was everything.

Weina Dai Randel

#58. Technology is a nerdy field. That's why I called myself a 'geek.' It requires a lot of training and encouragement at a very young age.

Weili Dai

#59. A name with a gently exotic ring to it, like birdsong, like a grain of sand in the far-off Gobi Desert or the northern steppes, whipped up by the wind, carried by storms, swirling through the sky, travelling, crossing whole countries without knowing quite how, and ending up in the crook of my ear.

Dai Sijie

#60. ...children are birds, and a mother is the tree. No matter how far the birds fly, they always long for the tree to rest on.
But a tree will fall...
Even if it falls or dies, its roots delve deep into a child's heart and nourish it with her eternal thoughts.

Weina Dai Randel