Quotes About Taipei

#1. I require every Taipei student to swim; if they can't pass the test they won't graduate. Why do I do that? Because I think that is very, very important integral part of their education.

Ma Ying-jeou

#2. I got a promo of 'Nichts Muss' in what would have been 2002 or 2003 and fell totally in love with it after listening to it on an airplane that took me to Australia via Taipei and Kuala Lumpur.

John Darnielle

#3. I think I've written about family and things in 'Taipei' which could be considered Asian culture.

Tao Lin

#4. With Taipei Tao Lin becomes the most interesting prose stylist of his generation.

Bret Easton Ellis

#5. I hope none of them ask about my spring break. They went to Taipei, the Bahamas, Harry Potter World. I stayed in the hood and saw a cop kill my friend.

Angie Thomas

#6. Right after 9/11 it looked as if the idea of a huge skyscraper might be considered obsolete. It came back, but I think that's more closely connected to the rise of Asian and Middle Eastern cities in the world economy (Dubai, Shanghai, Taipei, etc.) than anything else.

Paul Goldberger

#7. [M]ost of the people I have ever met who claim not to care about money already have more than they could ever need.

Gene Doucette

#8. Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.

Alan Watts

#9. As the shell, the pith and the kernel of the fruit are all produced form one parent seed of the tree, so from the one Lord is produced the whole of creation, animate and inanimate, spiritual and material.

Ramakrishna

#10. Self-empathy in NVC means checking in with your own feelings and needs.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#11. A criminal is undoubtedly a poor soul, who is punished for his poverty.

Thomas Bernhard

#12. The daylight needs no praise, and so we praise it always- greater than ourselves and all the airy words we summon.

Dana Gioia

#13. Perhaps Dexter's dutiful but uninspired brain pictured him as Sherlock Holmes, able to examine the wheel ruts and deduce that a left-handed hunchback with red hair and a limp had gone down the road carrying a Cuban cigar and a ukulele. I would find no clues, not that it mattered.

Jeff Lindsay

#14. A tiger of light from the transoms prowled the clean pine floor.

Lauren Groff

#15. For those who are always courteous and respectful of elders, four things increase: life, beauty, happiness and strength.

Gautama Buddha

#16. Someday, you must tell me what it's like there. Why all who come out of that place seem so very competent... and so very afraid.

N.K. Jemisin