Top 100 Mei Ling Quotes
#1. I fancy myself as being a fairly competent person.
Lisa Ling
#2. This whole thing happened because I got up last night, because my cat got hungry and I had to go find a fork, and I stumbled into that conference room and saw Will and Ling and their cop friend messing with a severed hand." Budd said, "A severed what?" and Andre said, "Your cat eats with a fork?
David Wong
#3. You see something you like?" I asked, echoing something I'd said to him ling ago, when he'd caught me in a compromising position at school.
"Lots," he said.
-Rose (Roza) to Dimitri
Richelle Mead
#5. I had my issues with the Kardashians, absolutely. I think there's so much wrong with how they are the most revered family in the country, but they are, nevertheless.
Lisa Ling
#6. I am convinced that we must train not only the head, but the heart and hand as well.
Soong May-ling
#7. I am 54 years old and happily single. In addition to my nuclear family, I have a close circle of friends. Most of my friends are men. But my reputation is such that their female partners would never consider me a threat.
Geraldine Lee Wei Ling
#8. The definition of love is giving.
Bai Ling
#9. The self is every person's true enemy.
Ding Ling
#11. I think I'm known as an adventuress. Even generally in life, I have no fear. It's not that I'm not afraid of things, but when I am afraid of something, I don't back away - I approach it and try to understand what makes me afraid.
Bai Ling
#12. English is my second language, but in Hong Kong, they don't know that I'm from China. They think I'm from Hollywood because all the films they see are from here. China and Hong Kong are very different places, but they're starting to merge. Still the culture is very different.
Bai Ling
#13. Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.
Bai Ling
#14. Children of the Law,' I said, 'he is not dead.' M'ling turned his sharp eyes on me. 'He has changed his shape - he has changed his body,' I went on. 'For a time you will not see him. He is.. there' - I pointed upward - 'where he can watch you. You cannot see him. But he can see you. Fear the Law.
H.G.Wells
#15. I'm determined to raise a strong girl.
Lisa Ling
#16. Killing a person with a 8 cm ling blunt knife is a bloody affair ...
Varg Vikernes
#17. Like, you can find your dream, if you firmly believe. You have to have the innocence, and you have to have the daringness to trust.
Bai Ling
#18. I indulged the wild child inside of me - the one that's not aware of danger or fear - for the purity of existence for that character in that film. Of course, behind me they're saying, 'She's crazy!'
Bai Ling
#19. I don't know that I'm going to entirely do cloth diapers. I'd like to be ambitious about it, but in all honesty, I can't say that I will.
Lisa Ling
#20. I think we all have our own mission, duty, fate in life so for me somehow I think I am always walking on the edge of life and take risks.
Bai Ling
#21. Johnny Depp is one of my favorite actors because he takes chances.
Bai Ling
#23. The Dying Christian to His Soul (1712)
-Vital spark of heav'nly flame!
Quit, oh quit, this mortal frame:
Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying,
Oh the pain, the bliss of dying!
Stanza 1.
Alexander Pope
#24. I honestly never had the biological need to reproduce until I met my husband. But by the same token, even if we were unsuccessful, we were totally okay with adopting.
Lisa Ling
#25. But somehow I feel like still it's a gift, and I wonder, how can I give this gift to others? Just work hard, and do whatever I can do, to be that, and to return the love to the fans. I like to give them joy and smiles to them. Give back to them.
Bai Ling
#26. Nobody will be able to forgive me but myself.
Ding Ling
#27. Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.
Bai Ling
#28. You judge the gods by who bows down at their altars? Ai Ling asked.
Cindy Pon
#29. Sex is the best high. It's better than any drug. I want to die making love because it feels so good.
Bai Ling
#30. But only those who have aims and ambitions for the benefit, not of the individual, but of humankind as a whole can persevere to the end.
Ding Ling
#31. I had a planned C-section, and I cried the entire day before I had the baby.
Lisa Ling
#32. We are made by what we are asked to bear, Ling Chan," he'd said.
Libba Bray
#33. Sometimes, the most graceful way to handle something is to be decidedly ungraceful.
Kristi Ling
#34. Yeah, well my name is Bai Ling. That means white spirit, and I really feel like sometimes I'm not existing.
Bai Ling
#35. The best education I have ever received was through travel.
Lisa Ling
#36. I don't remember my first trip, but I do remember when my mom took me to Disney World in Orlando. It wasn't the rides but Epcot Center that most fascinated me. It made me want to see those countries that are represented there for real.
Lisa Ling
#37. There's so much grey to every story - nothing is so black and white.
Lisa Ling
#38. If the Beast gave me a library like he gave to Belle, I'd marry him too.
Aya Ling
#39. She says affection is all very well being imagined, like a romantic fancy, but marriage should be based on practical purposes in order to last longer.
Aya Ling
#40. Make your relationship your number-one priority.
Lisa Ling
#41. When did an old white guy yelling at me, telling me what to think become news? What gives him the right to tell me what to think? When was the last time he was in Iraq or Afghanistan or Sri Lanka ... or anywhere that didn't have a beach?
Lisa Ling
#42. Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.
Bai Ling
#43. I hope my desire to travel so much isn't forever because it's not the most conducive lifestyle for a relationship or a family by any means.
Lisa Ling
#44. Very often, overweight children have parents who are struggling with weight issues.
Lisa Ling
#45. A woman is like fine whisky. Deep and subtle, smooth but strong, warm yet lingering.
Wan-Ling, Wong
#46. I'm a person that doesn't have that many goals or plans. I feel like I'm the wind and I blow through life; it's whatever comes to me. I very much respect nature. Whatever happens to me, I'm happy and I embrace it.
Bai Ling
#47. When you take the time to understand why your parents did the things they did, you stand a good chance of learning more about your own behavior.
Lisa Ling
#48. Sometimes the people who are the hardest to love are the ones who need it most.
Kristi Ling
#49. We live in a culture where we're bombarded with so much noise and so much insecurity.
Lisa Ling
#50. I was in Asia and people asked me about being considered sex symbol. I don't know if that's good or not, because where I come from, sex isn't something you're allowed to talk about.
Bai Ling
#52. You have to accept the storms and the rainy days and the things in life that you sometimes don't want to face.
Bai Ling
#53. I have not watched 'Honey Boo Boo'.
Lisa Ling
#54. I never run hills. My quads are already big enough. I don't run to build muscle; I do it for cardio.
Lisa Ling
#55. At the end of the day, TV is supposed to be entertaining. But it's important for me that there's some take-away value from it.
Lisa Ling
#56. Because of the Chinese culture of obedience, you don't ask questions ... You follow and obey.
Bai Ling
#57. When you're challenged, you're totally alive and totally dealing with reality, particularly if it could be dangerous. And that excites me!
Bai Ling
#58. Her flying machine was packed inside, wrapped in layers of oiled cloths. It was all she could carry.
Aya Ling
#59. Too often, we spend our days thinking about what we don't have rather than what we do have. Be grateful every day.
Lisa Ling
#60. I guess I feel like it's a gift to meet those talented artists like George Lucas and Oliver Stone, Spike Lee and Richard Kelly. Even if it's a small role, it's a gift to be working that closely with them.
Bai Ling
#61. One of the most important things I'm glad we did and am proud of is that we don't have any real grass on our property. It might not be realistic to ask people to pull out their grass, but we'll never have to think about it. We used Smart Grass, and I think it looks beautiful.
Lisa Ling
#62. In Chinese, the character for danger is the same one for opportunity." -- Kim Ling Levine in Madhattan Mystery
John J. Bonk
#63. The city of Oia is the most magnificently romantic place I've ever been.
Lisa Ling
#64. Happiness is to take up the struggle in the midst of the raging storm and not to pluck the lute in the moonlight or recite poetry among the blossoms.
Ding Ling
#65. In the words of a Chinese proverb, "The wind always destroys the tallest tree in the forest.
Chai Ling
#66. I hadn't wanted to have a kid until I met my partner.
Lisa Ling
#67. The partner that you have is supposed to make you a better person, and when you're happy, you're a better person.
Bai Ling
#68. I'm a big Ping-Pong addict. I love it.
Lisa Ling
#69. Ling offered him the last slice of melon. "Sorry. I ate everything. I'm starving. I could eat a horse. And I love horses. Beautiful creatures. But I'd eat one whole. Raw."
"I'd settle for eggs and bacon," Gabriel said.
G.L. Breedon
#70. Don't tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done.
James Ling
#71. I started running when I was 21 years old and studying in China.
Lisa Ling
#72. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind?
Thomas Gray
#73. Parents are working more than ever before and unable to monitor what kids are eating at home, and schools are selling astronomical amounts of junk food in order to supplement shrinking budgets. It's a ticking time bomb, and America's children are exploding.
Lisa Ling
#74. What I like about being an actress is that it keeps you feminine. Being a director and producer makes you manly and very masculine and I don't like that quality in a woman. But I'll do it when the film is very close to me.
Bai Ling
#75. No one who has had a unique experience with prayer has a right to withhold it from others.
Soong May-ling
#76. She spoke throught her teeth. "Almost, dear. What were the real words you used? The bad words. It's okay to say them again, just this once."
I shrugged, "fine. I said' ... just 'cause Daddy wants you to suck on his ding-a-ling.
Michael Siemsen
#77. The thing I absolutely love about food is it's a common thread that connects us no matter what culture we come from.
Poh Ling Yeow
#78. Ling cod is a mild-flavored and somewhat delicate fish that takes well to poaching, braising and pan-roasting.
Tom Douglas
#79. I wanted to escape from love, but didn't know how.
Ding Ling
#80. I started working in television quite young, actually, and I definitely felt very insecure about what I looked like.
Lisa Ling
#82. It's so much fun playing Ling, but I have this fear that people are going to run away from me in terror on the streets. They think I'm going to bite their heads off or something.
Lucy Liu
#83. I hate shopping. I don't go shopping. If I do, I run in and out.
Bai Ling
#84. There is no shadow of protection to be had by sheltering behind the slender stockades of visionary speculation, or by hiding behind the wagon-wheels of pacific theories.
Soong May-ling
#85. You should treat your marriage like a business that you wouldn't want to let fail. I'm a big advocate of therapy and third-party intervention.
Lisa Ling
#86. Love is a fine mingling of holding on and letting go.
Wan-Ling, Wong
#88. We are such a product of our upbringing and environment.
Lisa Ling
#89. I think I'm like a free spirit.
Bai Ling
#90. We're doing a partial green nursery and trying as hard as we can to do as much organic stuff for our nursery as we can.
Lisa Ling
#91. Yes we dream of our selves, of what we will become," Chi Ling told me, "but it's the environment that tells us what is possible. I don't think our dreams are limitless; they are bounded by the society we live in and its conception of what is respectable and good.
Julie Lythcott-Haims
#92. The first to express support of Tang San was unexpectedly Ma Hongjun. Fatty's hands supported Huang Yuan and Jing Ling,
"Third brother, I support you, mercy to the enemy is cruelty to oneself.
Tang Jia San Shao
#93. Porter it was that fattened people in my own fami ly, and it would be a hard thing not to drink porter with every other decent man, and maybe stand fi l ling your pipe with your back to the counte r , and maybe talk of the time you were in j a i l in England
Anonymous
#94. I used to pray that God would do this or that; now I pray that God will make His will known to me.
Soong May-ling
#95. Do not tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done. - James J. Ling
Zig Ziglar
#96. Personally, I've always known that I wanted to go back to work because I'm confident, and I'm certain that my daughter will have a better mother in me if I'm doing the things that I'm excited about and that I'm passionate about.
Lisa Ling
#97. Charlie Asher: Mrs. Ling, is that duck wearing trousers?
Mrs. Ling: Could be ... You hear of paper-wrap chicken? This duck in pants.
Christopher Moore
#98. It is said that the way to prevent obesity is not to allow kids to become overweight in the first place. But it takes a multi-pronged approach that has to start with parents. Kids are just too young to understand the consequences of obesity.
Lisa Ling
#99. Happiness is absolutely a feeling and a state of well-being, but the key to happiness is understanding that it is created through action.
Kristi Ling
#100. Greed (as Ling): You humans always get all "holier-than-thou" when it comes to this stuff ... I really don't get you.
Edward: It's called having integrity. You should try it sometime
Hiromu Arakawa
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