Jia Zhangke Quotes

#1. Money, in truth, can do much, but it cannot do all. We must know the province of it, and confine it there, and even spurn it back when it wishes to get farther.

Thomas Carlyle

#2. 'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer.

Rachel Kushner

#3. Something about how all this could or would lead to totalitarianism. Her stomach sank.

Dave Eggers

#4. I refuse to give up when things go wrong because there is always a sliver lining behind the cloud.

Millicent Ashby

#5. As outsiders looking in, my readers and I must reform how we think so we may open ourselves to new forms of knowledge.

Cristina Marrero

#6. But Nora had said, "Oh, no. I don't believe in dative evangelizing." Abby had repeated this later to the girls: "She doesn't believe in 'dative evangelizing.

Anne Tyler

#7. With all our new technologies, I feel like these feelings have really been dampened. Even if you are thousands of kilometers from somebody, you can still video chat with them on your cellphone. Even though we can see each other more on the internet, maybe our hearts becomes more distant.

Jia Zhangke

#8. The goal is soccer's orgasm. And like orgasms, goals have become an ever less frequent occurrence in modern life.

Eduardo Galeano

#9. Some men mistake generosity for charity: these flatter themselves that they are giving gratuitously, whilst they are merely rewarding secret services offered their vanity.

Norm MacDonald

#10. Out of power, Marxism can develop critical intelligence; in power, it quickly becomes stupid.

Mason Cooley

#11. If you look at ancient Chinese culture, and depictions of it, the relationship between people and nature was very different. It almost felt as though feelings were always attached to a certain landscape.

Jia Zhangke

#12. Reasoned arguments and suggestions which make allowance for the full difficulties of the state of war that exists may help, and will always be listened to with respect and sympathy.

Stafford Cripps

#13. I started off at the high level, in the slick magazines, but they didn't use my name, they used house names. Anyway, then I went downhill to the pulps, then downhill further to the comics.

Mickey Spillane

#14. Oh the places you'll go! There is fun to be done! There are points to be scored. There are games to be won. And the magical things you can do with that ball will make you the winning-est winner of all.

Dr. Seuss

#15. Love, acceptance, friends, two kids that I love. I have to take care of myself for them. I've also been a vegetarian for two years.

Ricky Martin

#16. There are a lot of colloquialisms in the Cantonese language that can never be represented aptly in Mandarin.

Jia Zhangke

#17. Every family is a ghost story.

Mitch Albom

#18. I definitely want to write some fiction, for sure. I already have half of the next book. I already have it all mapped out. I'm ready. I'm ready to bring it to the world.

Moshe Kasher

#19. I think the new technologies have become pervasive in our society, such as cellphones and the internet, and they've insidiously affected our personal sense of space and belonging.

Jia Zhangke