Liao Yiwu Quotes

#1. Love does not ask many questions, because with thinking comes fear. This might be the fear of being scorned, of being rejected, or of breaking the spell. However ridiculous this may seem, that is how it is. This is why one does not ask, one acts.

Paulo Coelho

#2. The Eisenhower Memorial competition and project have stirred a remarkable polemic, the center of which is not President Eisenhower or Washington, D.C. but Mr. Gehry and the values he promulgates.

Leon Krier

#3. As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy, and for some of us that world of make-believe continues into adulthood.

Jim Henson

#4. Sometimes inspiration strikes; other times you have to hunt it down.

Nina LaCour

#5. Liao writes with the courage of a man who knows loss and doesn't fear it. There is nothing to make him notice like an official injunction against noticing, nothing to make him listen like official deafness, nothing that drives him to make us see like the blindness that officialdom seeks to impose.

Liao Yiwu

#6. Where did you get the meat from? Mo Erwa answered calmly: We just boiled our three-year-old daughter.

Liao Yiwu

#7. Soon, all that was permitted to be taught was the chairman's Little Red Book. Chairman Mao's quotes were treated like the words of God.

Liao Yiwu

#8. This was the first time ever, since the legendary Pangu created the world, that suona players and professional funeral wailers were dueling for territory.

Liao Yiwu

#9. I should think it extremely improbable that anyone ever wrote for money. Naturally, when he has written something, he wants to get as much for it as he can, but that is a very different thing from writing for money.

P.G. Wodehouse

#10. Beauty doesn't last. It's bound to be destroyed.

Liao Yiwu

#11. Where otherwise words were, flow discoveries, freed all surprised out of the fruit's flesh. RAINER MARIA RILKE

Gayle Brandeis

#12. I'm going to say 'Amen' now. This is a deal now. We are square on this. You will sort this out. Violet will not rat on us. Amen.

Caitlin Moran

#13. Times have changed. Everyone talks about money and nobody cares about Communism anymore.

Liao Yiwu

#14. My breakup with AT&T is final, and I'm done with Skype as the rebound guy.

Elayne Boosler

#15. I'm recording our history now on the bedroom wall, and when we leave the landlord will come and paint over it all.

Ani DiFranco