Top 23 Dai Sijie Quotes
#1. Nowadays, with digital printing, it's so easy to make everything perfect, which is not always a good idea. Sometimes the mistakes are really what make a piece.
Cindy Sherman
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#7. In Chinese love stories the one who loves always starts by borrowing a book from the beloved.
Dai Sijie
#8. 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
#9. Mozart is thinking of Chairman Mao
Dai Sijie
#10. Philip Murdstone sat considering the phrase 'depths of despair'. Its plural implied that there were, even now, levels of it he had yet to experience.
Mal Peet
#11. Leanne, would you kindly remove your nose from my ass? It's starting to chafe. - Noelle
Kate Brian
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. Contractions, 'U' for 'you' and the like are wonderful to make communication brief and efficient - but we wouldn't want all our talk to be only brief and efficient. Taking pauses out of language would be like taking the net away from a tennis game. Where would all the fun go?
Pico Iyer
#15. Our imagination is dictated by who we are. (198)
Dai Sijie
#16. 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
#17. Whoever recounts to you the faults of your neighbour will doubtless expose your defects to others.
Saadi
#18. No," said he, smiling, "that is no subject of regret at all. I have no pleasure in seeing my friends, unless I can believe myself fit to be seen.
Jane Austen
#19. Most of the bad guys in the real world don't know that they are bad guys. You don't get a flashing warning sign that you're about to damn yourself. It sneaks up on you when you aren't looking.
Jim Butcher
#20. She said she had learnt one thing from Balzac: that a woman's beauty is a treasure beyond price.
Dai Sijie
#21. Dr. Breed keeps telling me the main thing with Dr. Hoenikker was truth."
"You don't seem to agree."
"I don't know whether I agree or not. I just have trouble understanding
how truth, all by itself, could be enough for a person.
Kurt Vonnegut
#22. This is what we mean by democracy: that everyone has a voice, that no one gets away with things just because of their wealth, power, race, or gender.
Rebecca Solnit
#23. There are sometimes beauties in a character which would never have appeared but for a defect, and defects which would never have appeared but for a beauty.
Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
