Top 100 Hong's Quotes

#1. Adultery is extravagance.

Maxine Hong Kingston

Hong's Quotes #8616
#2. Hong Kong compatriots will surely display great love for the motherland and for Hong Kong and take it as their utmost honor to maintain long-term prosperity and stability in Hong Kong and safeguard the fundamental interests of the country,

Jiang Zemin

Hong's Quotes #9066
#3. It may be the way the cookie crumbles on Madison Avenue, but in Hong Kong its the way the egg rolls.

Robert Orben

Hong's Quotes #10308
#4. I'm so proud that my offspring became a musician. I'm full of awe that we are able to have a whole family live the life of artists.

Maxine Hong Kingston

Hong's Quotes #16508
#5. I see Baccarat in major gateway cities like Paris, Tokyo, Shanghai and Hong Kong and exotic resort locations.

Barry Sternlicht

Hong's Quotes #28406
#6. I would love mainland Chinese to read my book. There is a Chinese translation which I worked on myself, published in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Many copies have gone into China but it is still banned.

Jung Chang

Hong's Quotes #30963
#7. Hong Kong is a nice playground for my street pieces as the architecture is very different from my home city. It's also a great opportunity to take place in a dynamic city of the global art scene.

Invader

Hong's Quotes #32058
#8. We're all under the same sky and walk the same earth; we're alive together during the same moment.

Maxine Hong Kingston

Hong's Quotes #32261
#9. Business and scholarship pass away with the person, but the soul is forever like new. Fame and fortune change with the generations, but the spirit is always the same. Enlightened people surely should not exchange the lasting for the ephemeral.

Zicheng Hong

Hong's Quotes #33557
#10. In Hong Kong, 'wonton' means swallowing a cloud.

Jose Andres

Hong's Quotes #41022
#11. Did anyone in the White House or the N.S.A or the C.I.A. consider flying to Hong Kong and treating Mr. Snowden like a human being, offering him a chance to testify before Congress and a fair trial?

Alex Berenson

Hong's Quotes #52834
#12. You can't eat straight A's.

Maxine Hong Kingston

Hong's Quotes #62822
#13. People in Hong Kong are stylish and fashionable, which is one of the many reasons making Hong Kong itself such an energetic place.

David Beckham

Hong's Quotes #65278
#14. Joy and life exist nowhere but the present.

Maxine Hong Kingston

Hong's Quotes #67791
#15. At the Hong Kong festival, we were co-producers of the opening film, 'Aberdeen,' which is the third part in a popular movie series.

Victor Koo

Hong's Quotes #77325
#16. When I went to Hong Kong, I knew at once I wanted to write a story set there.

Paul Theroux

Hong's Quotes #91046
#17. You may have an iPhone, for example, but its microchips are made by Apple's biggest competitor - the Korean electronics company Samsung.

Euny Hong

Hong's Quotes #91054
#18. Hong Kong's people will get what they want, despite China's objections. Freedom invariably wins in the end.

Chris Patten

Hong's Quotes #91808
#19. When you meet dishonest people, move them with sincerity. When you meet violent people, affect them with gentility. When you meet warped people, inspire them with justice. Then the whole world enters your forge.

Zicheng Hong

Hong's Quotes #101523
#20. capita in the Republic of Korea was 121.8%. For Taiwan, that figure was 88.0%. In Hong Kong, real GDP growth per capita in that period leaped 64.2%, while in Singapore it was 77.5%. Growth in real earnings has been even more impressive,

Callum Henderson

Hong's Quotes #107951
#21. Service to many leads to greatness-great respect, great satisfaction. Success is not having to wait until someone goes to Hong Kong before you get a camera.

Jim Rohn

Hong's Quotes #114608
#22. To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world - that I am able to change it in positive ways.

Maxine Hong Kingston

Hong's Quotes #116053
#23. No land too small to lose, no man too big to fall.

Hong Zheng

Hong's Quotes #118773
#24. Mothers who love their children take them along.

Maxine Hong Kingston

Hong's Quotes #120646
#25. I have never been to a museum in Hong Kong, or a movie or a play. I've never gone club-hopping. I've never taken the tram to Victoria Peak.

P. J. O'Rourke

Hong's Quotes #123293
#26. As we open the gates to Hong Kong Disneyland Resort, we know that millions of guests will open their hearts to this fantasy world where characters and stories spring to life, where dreams come true and where families will have fun together.

Jay Rasulo

Hong's Quotes #123609
#27. I am known for what I'm do. But I'm not a five-year-old Hong Konger, I'm not a kid demonstrating in the streets.

Christopher Doyle

Hong's Quotes #126492
#28. Hong Kong is not just a global financial center. It's also a place with a lot of teens and youth who love freedom, democracy, and human rights.

Joshua Wong

Hong's Quotes #133529
#29. Ten years before Matrix, ten years before Crouching Tiger - I wanted to do a Hong Kong action movie.

Robert Mark Kamen

Hong's Quotes #140865
#30. I really feel that Hong Kong is my home, and Hong Kong is my identity as an actor.

Daniel Wu

Hong's Quotes #148779
#31. i am someone who wants very much to be popular. I don't just want you to like me, I want to be one of the most joy-inducing human beings that you've ever encountered. I want to explode on your night sky like fireworks at midnight on New Year's Eve in Hong Kong.

Carrie Fisher

Hong's Quotes #150191
#32. Where the Mystery is present, joy is infinite; where the Mystery has departed, efficacy is exhausted and the spirit disappears.

Ge Hong

Hong's Quotes #151588
#33. Hong Kong has always been a dynamic and exciting and high-energy city, and it has that New York thing going on, and people here care about how they look.

Mickey Drexler

Hong's Quotes #155486
#34. One of my goals is to have a base near mainland China. I think Hong Kong would be a good match for me. I like being in Hong Kong.

Nicolas Cage

Hong's Quotes #155716
#35. I think one day I can make a book about coffee shops in Hong Kong. I spent almost most of my time in coffee shops, in different coffee shops.

Wong Kar-Wai

Hong's Quotes #159112
#36. When alone I am not aware of my race or my sex, both in need of social contexts for definition.

Maxine Hong Kingston

Hong's Quotes #160244
#37. I was born in Cambridge but brought up in and around Winchester, in Hampshire. I've also lived in Hong Kong and America.

Chris Geere

Hong's Quotes #170613
#38. Hong Kong is the supermarket of Asia.

Eleanor Coppola

Hong's Quotes #173856
#39. Reading Ngo Tu Lap's poems, terrible nostalgia wells up in me- nostalgia for a lost time and a far-gone country, nostalgia for people I've loved, and for creatures of forests and rivers. I feel gratitude too. War is over. Peace arrives with these beautiful poems.

Maxine Hong Kingston

Hong's Quotes #181275
#40. In adversity, everything that surrounds you is a kind of medicine that helps you refine your conduct, yet you are unaware of it. In pleasant situations, you are faced with weapons that will tear you apart, yet you do not realize it.

Zicheng Hong

Hong's Quotes #186927
#41. Unexpected hardship refines people; if you can accept it, both mind and body will benefit. If you cannot accept it, on the other hand, both mind and body will be harmed.

Zicheng Hong

Hong's Quotes #192651
#42. To notice people's deceptions yet not reveal it in words, to bear people's insults without showing any change of attitude-there is endless meaning in this, and also endless function.

Zicheng Hong

Hong's Quotes #198659
#43. It seems that writing chose me. I feel that because I know history, and I know the history of so many cultures; I have lived a large life.

Maxine Hong Kingston

Hong's Quotes #205019
#44. I think I first got into acting through church. I would go to these church retreats, and they would tell us to make a skit or make a video and present it to the rest of the group. And I started doing that. And I fell in love with it.

Ki Hong Lee

Hong's Quotes #205958
#45. In Hong Kong, particularly, we craft this art for decades. The action choreographer actually is the action director. He takes over and he choreographs with - by himself or with his team, and place the camera where he feels cinematic effect to bring out that choreography.

Donnie Yen

Hong's Quotes #211936
#46. Hong Kong has created one of the most successful societies on Earth.

Prince Charles

Hong's Quotes #212029
#47. I have had many opportunities to flee HK, but I would rather stay and fight the United States government in the courts, because I have faith in Hong Kong's rule of law.

Edward Snowden

Hong's Quotes #230806
#48. The government of India regulates nearly everything, so there's very little progress; whereas in Hong Kong the government keeps its hands off ... and the standard of living has multiplied.

John Templeton

Hong's Quotes #232101
#49. The majority of Taiwan people cannot accept Taiwan becoming a second Hong Kong, nor can we accept Taiwan becoming a local government of the People's Republic of China or a Special Administrative Region of China.

Chen Shui-bian

Hong's Quotes #232130
#50. A good choreographer is one that's going to collaborate, teach, guide - everything. The wonderful thing on 'Brotherhood of the Wolf' was that we had Philip Kwok - he choreographed John Woo's 'Hard Boiled,' and in the '70s, he was a martial arts actor, stunt man, fighter, choreographer in Hong Kong.

Mark Dacascos

Hong's Quotes #234893
#51. Doing comedy is still in my veins; that's my first love.

James Hong

Hong's Quotes #247348
#52. The work of preservation demands that the feelings playing about in one's guts not be turned into action. Just watch their passing like cherry blossoms.

Maxine Hong Kingston

Hong's Quotes #253430
#53. Hong Kong film audiences are very quiet. It's their culture.

Jet Li

Hong's Quotes #289884
#54. I think growing up in the States and Australia, we were exposed to a lot of different types of things. I used to go to Gilman to watch punk shows, and it's a complete different environment - you were inspired by so many different things, whereas in Hong Kong, there is nothing for anybody.

Daniel Wu

Hong's Quotes #316884
#55. This time we'll be fighting for the nation. The company commander says that it's better to be the ghost of a fallen soldier than a nationless slave. For the sake of our fellow countrymen, our families and our children, we have to resist to the very end ... ("Vague Expectations")

Xiao Hong

Hong's Quotes #321812
#56. There's something in life that's a curtain, and I keep trying to raise it.

Maxine Hong Kingston

Hong's Quotes #348716
#57. I was a regular on 'Holby City,' and I did daytime; that's how I started off. Off in Hong Kong doing stuntman stuff, then coming back to England doing daytime soap operas.

Scott Adkins

Hong's Quotes #429325
#58. I still remember 2002. It's a very hard time for Hong Kong industry, no movies in Hong Kong, and also at this moment I start my new company, so many people said, 'You're crazy.'

Andrew Lau

Hong's Quotes #438375
#59. Personally, I prefer contemporary films, but the market calls for more period choices, especially since China opened up a cinema market in Hong Kong. There's a lot of restriction for contemporary films simply because of subject matter.

Donnie Yen

Hong's Quotes #439130
#60. There's a McDonalds in Hong Kong & they're offering couples the opportunity to get married. You can have a McWedding.

Chelsea Handler

Hong's Quotes #484535
#61. It's a remake of a film called Inferno Affairs. It's a Hong Kong film, and if we come anywhere close to what they did in the original, we're going to have a hot property on our hands, because Inferno Affairs is a great piece.

Anthony Anderson

Hong's Quotes #517771
#62. When you look at the piece of paper, and there's just words on there, you interpret it as the actor to whatever you think is right. There may not be the hidden meaning behind the dialogue, because you don't really get to see what's going on.

James Hong

Hong's Quotes #559443
#63. Back in eighth grade, I'd seen nothing but small-town Georgia when I left the U.S. for the first time and went to Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland China.

Chandler Massey

Hong's Quotes #560126
#64. A thousand pieces of gold may hardly bring a moment's happiness, but a small favor can cause a lifetime's gratitude. Too much love can turn to enmity, while aloofness can produce joy.

Zicheng Hong

Hong's Quotes #569873
#65. I remember talking with a friend. He asked me a question. He said, 'What's your end game? What's your goal with this?' And I said to him, 'You know, I want to win the Academy Award one day.' And he said, 'OK'.

Ki Hong Lee

Hong's Quotes #596039
#66. Shanghai set out to take over from Hong Kong and I think it's done that. It's got the most amazing futuristic skyline which rivals and even betters Tokyo.

Paul Oakenfold

Hong's Quotes #608173
#67. [While voicing] you have to create a feeling for what happened before a scene, what's going to happen after a scene, and what you are doing in a scene. You need to use your imagination even more and once your emotions are up, then your voice and expressions will go accordingly.

James Hong

Hong's Quotes #617068
#68. As long as I have the talent and there's a demand for the old Chinese man - whether he's a philosopher, or a master, or an old-time restaurant owner, or a villain, or a so-called good guy - I will always be working.

James Hong

Hong's Quotes #618336
#69. For Fleur de Chine, I imagined the romantic and mysterious women from Asia's cinematic past-from the '30s femme fatale in a cheongsam and dark lipstick, to the'60s Hong Kong heroine of In the Mood for Love. I wanted to capture that fascinating, exquisite and slightly scandalous femininity.

Tom Ford

Hong's Quotes #619177
#70. Affluence isn't affluence at all. Hong Kong is the benchmark; everybody else's affluence is mere tat. Until you've experienced that perfume-washed air as polarized glass doors embrace you into a luxury hotel's plush interior, you've only had a dud replica of the real thing.

Jonathan Gash

Hong's Quotes #651507
#71. Hong Kong is a wonderful, mixed-up town where you've got great food and adventure. First and foremost, it's a great place to experience China in a relatively accessible way.

Anthony Bourdain

Hong's Quotes #708160
#72. Barcelona is one of the best cities in the world. I love it there. I love Big Sur. It's stunning and you get a therapeutic experience there. The drive up the coast is one of the most beautiful I've ever done. Also, Hong Kong. I could easily live there!

Meghan Markle

Hong's Quotes #733734
#73. At dusk the sunset is beautifully bright; at year's end the tangerines are even more fragrant. Therefore, at the end of their road, in their later years, enlightened people should be a hundred times more vital in spirit.

Zicheng Hong

Hong's Quotes #836801
#74. Attention is the mind's feet; if you do not control your attention strictly, it runs into misleading pathways.

Zicheng Hong

Hong's Quotes #897212
#75. Humans are basically good. That's why it takes so much training to march march march kill kill kill kill.

Maxine Hong Kingston

Hong's Quotes #906079
#76. It's not rocket science. Hong Kong has 95% tax compliance, because it's code is only 4 pages long with a 15% flat tax.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

Hong's Quotes #924079
#77. I'm a third-culture child. It's an interesting concept. Having an American father, a South American mother, born in England, grew up in Hong Kong, went to school in Europe - it makes me a third-culture child, which means you take on the culture of the place where you live. So I'm very adaptable.

Marie-Chantal Claire

Hong's Quotes #930665
#78. Hong Kong is a good fashion city. The interest is enormous. There's good potential in the Asian market.

Stefan Persson

Hong's Quotes #1005964
#79. Physically, it's getting impossible for me to travel that much. I want to support my artists by showing up at their openings, but I can't always be in Hong Kong one minute and Geneva the next.

Larry Gagosian

Hong's Quotes #1025104
#80. It's the duty of artists to volunteer to do particle counting. Don't leave creation up to the accountants.

Maxine Hong Kingston

Hong's Quotes #1059524
#81. I love cities. New York, Montreal, London, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney, Melbourne, Toronto, L.A ... but, I do choose to live in Vancouver. It's home.

Stewart Butterfield

Hong's Quotes #1060258
#82. I have found things that I could have done better in 'The Woman Warrior.' But then I thought: Let the work of one's youth just stand.

Maxine Hong Kingston

Hong's Quotes #1098662
#83. Asian horror is really setting a trend. The Pang brothers are from Hong Kong, so they just bring a whole different sensibility to a horror movie. In Hong Kong, they're actually doing stuff that's very artistic and pushing boundaries.

Kristen Stewart

Hong's Quotes #1123321
#84. 'Hard Boiled' is my last film in Hong Kong, before I moved to the U.S. It is the one film which is most accepted by the audience in the West.

John Woo

Hong's Quotes #1130877
#85. The people of Hong Kong are criticized for only being interested in business, but it's the only thing they've been allowed to do.

Paul Theroux

Hong's Quotes #1151130
#86. When I'm teaching, I tell my students: It's all process. Don't even think of product.

Maxine Hong Kingston

Hong's Quotes #1158580
#87. If you're not fascinated by Korea yet, you damn well should be. The most innovative country on earth deserves a hilarious and poignant account on the order of Euny Hong's The Birth of Korean Cool. Her phat beats got Gangnam Style and then some.

Gary Shteyngart

Hong's Quotes #1166322
#88. I remember vividly one distinct memory of arriving in Hong Kong and being the only blonde haired girl in this sea of international students, and thinking, 'Oh, my God. There's no hiding here.'

Adelaide Clemens

Hong's Quotes #1280233
#89. I remember when I was working on Mission: Impossible 2, John Woo said, "In Hong Kong, there's not much money and a lot of time. In Hollywood, a lot of money, not much time." Personally I'd prefer not much money, a lot of time.

William Mapother

Hong's Quotes #1364186
#90. I believe it's important that Hong Kong does not become another Chinese city.

Richard Li

Hong's Quotes #1420148
#91. That's so different in Hong Kong when I'm using my own mother language, I can treat the line in one thousand different ways, with many different reactions.

Chow Yun-Fat

Hong's Quotes #1594120
#92. I'm not really a money-oriented person. The press always write that I am. They don't seem to want to understand that I love the comfort of Japan and love the fact it's more peaceful, less frenzied than Hong Kong.

Shu Qi

Hong's Quotes #1629861
#93. You will miss out on some near soul mates. This goes for friendships, too. There will be unforgettable people with whom you have shared an excellent evening or a few days. Now they live in Hong Kong, and you will never see them again. That's just how life is.

Pamela Druckerman

Hong's Quotes #1664107
#94. ...the thunder has sounded--but who knows where the rain's going to fall.

Hong Ying

Hong's Quotes #1690461
#95. There is something particularly unique about the films of Hong Sang-soo ... it's got to do with his masterful sense of storytelling ... as the critic Manny Farber once said of Hitchcock's ROPE Hong Sang-soo's pictures unpeel like an orange.

Martin Scorsese

Hong's Quotes #1753446
#96. People's shortcomings should be treated with tact; if you expose them crudely, this is attacking weakness with a weakness. When people are stubborn, it requires skill to influence them; if you treat them with anger and spite, this is treating stubbornness with stubbornness.

Zicheng Hong

Hong's Quotes #1756468
#97. If you're too free, you're like the way Hong Kong is now. It's very chaotic.

Jackie Chan

Hong's Quotes #1762997
#98. That's what life is all about - you're busy, I'm busy, and the end result is death. Sooner or later, that's what it comes to. ("The Death Of Wang Asao")

Xiao Hong

Hong's Quotes #1824246
#99. Former police chief of Houston once said of me: "Frank Abagnale could write a check on toilet paper, drawn on the Confederate States Treasury, sign it 'U.R. Hooked' and cash it at any bank in town, using a Hong Kong driver's license for identification.

Frank W. Abagnale

Hong's Quotes #1855831
#100. We enjoy a considerable net inflow of capital and I am sure that a condition of its coming, and staying, is that it is free to flow out again. It is also important for Hong Kong's status as a financial centre that there should be a maximum freedom of capital movement both in and out.

John James Cowperthwaite

Hong's Quotes #1873940

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