Fujian Quotes

#1. I recalled an economics professor in Fujian who spoke to me of China's inevitable return to the top of the world order. It was just a matter of time.
"I have teapots older than your country," the professor said, sipping his tea. "And they're /very/ sturdy teapots.

Alex Tizon

#2. Sometimes electricity provides unexpected benefits. In a remote village in China's Fujian province in which young men have traditionally had a hard time finding wives, the arrival of electricity has attracted more brides

Christopher Flavin

#3. As Hazel marched down the hill, she cursed in Latin. Percy didn't understand all of it, but he got son of a gorgon, power-hungry snake, and a few choice suggestions about where Octavian could stick his knife.

Rick Riordan

#4. Eventually, however, the star will run out of its hydrogen and other nuclear fuels. Paradoxically, the more fuel a star starts off with, the sooner it runs out. This is because the more massive the star is, the hotter it needs to be to balance its gravitational attraction.

Stephen Hawking

#5. A paranoid man is a man with all the facts.

William S. Burroughs

#6. Teaching English literature would have seemed to us like teaching a hungry man the way to his mouth when he had a feast before him. Almost

Albert Jay Nock

#7. If they aren't real enough to surprise me, then they aren't real enough to go on the page.

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro