Hongkong Quotes

#1. At midnight on July 1, 1997, Hongkong, the British Crown Colony, will be restored to China. This is not only an event which will be celebrated by patriotic Chinese; any patriotic American should celebrate it as well.

Robert Trout

#2. Ismat Chugti has been my inspiration, for her patriarchy submerged, womencentric stories. I see and think of women as they would want to be and not how we have been formularized in imaginations." (interview in Beyond Sindh, a HongKong based Sindhi magazine).

Kusum Choppra

#3. The British seizure of Hongkong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the British Empire: the takeover and destruction of India, and the use of India to flood China with opium.

Robert Trout

#4. The Jungle Bush Beaters didn't last too long as a group, but we had a pretty good time while we did.

Levon Helm

#5. I breathed in deeply, feeling immediately at ease. I loved the smell of books. I kept breathing in until I felt too light, like I was inhaling all the knowledge from the books and there was no place for the information to go.

Megan Miranda

#6. That sounds perfectly reasonable ... he said in a reassuring tone of voice, wondering who he was trying to reassure.

Douglas Adams

#7. Rebuke without love is abuse. But, a love that would never rebuke? I dare to admit that that, too, would be a kind of abuse.

Criss Jami

#8. I'll be spending the holidays with my family. Nothing special, just some light bickering and biting sarcasm.

Ray Romano

#9. I try not to bash him in the head too much.

Steven A. Tolle

#10. Jean Valjean opened his eyes wide, and stared at the venerable Bishop with an expression which no human tongue can render any account of.

Victor Hugo

#11. The ancient Egyptians had a superstitious antipathy to the sea; a superstition nearly of the same kind prevails among the Indians; and the Chinese have never excelled in foreign commerce.

Adam Smith

#12. I've dreamed a lot, but i'm not a very good sleeper.

Michel Gondry

#13. It really is about the heart of a woman that makes her beautiful.

Jessica Simpson

#14. Space is not empty. It is full, a plenum as opposed to a vacuum, and is the ground for the existence of everything, including ourselves. The universe is not separate from this cosmic sea of energy.

David Bohm

#15. The heart is not only the location of the 4th chakra, located at the centre of your chakra system, but also the centre of your conscious universe and is able to create and define life in its true essence.

Steven Redhead

#16. The human heart operates from two premises: "I Am Responsible" and "Only Love Works.

Swami Dhyan Giten

#17. Werewolves? Oh please, just plain stupid. Who wants to get it on with a man ruled by his inner dog?

Karen Marie Moning

#18. Every movie is a commitment of a year or a year and a half. Commercials are much faster than that because they're much more contained. You can get in and out really fast, and you do a piece of work the you see the end result very quickly.

Paul W. S. Anderson