Quotes About Zheng He

#1. Chinese naval activity, for instance, was aborted after Zheng He's last voyage, probably as a result of

Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

#2. Long before Christopher Columbus, the celebrated Chinese navigator Zheng He travelled through the south and westward maritime routes in the Indian Ocean and established relations with more than thirty countries in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.

Patrick Mendis

#3. There is credible evidence that a Chinese fleet went as far as the coast of Africa, in present-day Kenya. It was the largest maritime fleet in the world, under the command of Zheng He, a favorite of the emperor.

Russell Freedman

#4. If you watch a Chinese movie with subtitles, it's just like watching an Arabic movie with Chinese subtitles. That explains why you can't take Chinese language movies and expect them to go abroad.

Bruno Zheng Wu

#5. I'm keen on making English language movies. English is still the global language and we can't change that.

Bruno Zheng Wu

#6. The Communist Party of China is a party that seeks peace, harmony and reconciliation, unlike the Communist Party of the former Soviet Union

Zheng Bijian

#7. As long as one heart still holds on, then hope is never really gone

Garth Brooks

#8. I always follow the rules. No fake co-productions. I know how to make content agreeable and acceptable.

Bruno Zheng Wu

#9. As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity.

Simon Newcomb

#10. I am financing global pictures with global talents. Of course I will bring in the Chinese elements, yet you have to have global talents to create a global picture.

Bruno Zheng Wu

#11. Aiyaaaa," Zheng said softly.
And if that meant "holy shit," I agreed.

Karen Chance

#12. Is that it?" Jack asked. "No. That is the Xing zheng yuan Hui an Xun fang Shu." "I was just going to say that," Tessa said.

Richard Paul Evans

#13. Fifty-five crystal spheres geared to God's crankshaft is my idea of a satisfying universe. I can't think of anything more trivial than quarks, quasars, big bangs, and black holes.

Tom Stoppard

#14. Never judge a book by its cover, especially when the book is a person, was the lesson.

Mary Higgins Clark

#15. Though death might still the show, life would be the most critiqued act of our existence. Own your stage.

Palle Oswald

#16. I invest in people. I think: people first, projects second.

Bruno Zheng Wu

#17. The Chinese people will be busy with their own affairs for generations to come and there is no need at all for the country to threaten anybody or any nation.

Zheng Bijian

#18. All actors think every job will be their last.

David Morrissey

#19. You don't have to do a lot of quantity. It's the quality that counts.

Bruno Zheng Wu

#20. In addition to achieving outside the industry, agriculture, national defense science and technology modernization, we are faced with the important task of system modernization.

Zheng Bijian

#21. To make a friend you must close one eye. And to keep a friend, you must close both eyes.

Victor Robert Lee

#22. The moment you have subtitles and you have to speak Chinese, you already limit your global audience.

Bruno Zheng Wu

#23. No land too small to lose, no man too big to fall.

Hong Zheng

#24. I personally think that Hollywood agencies ought to play a much better role in the development of Chinese films. Otherwise they're missing out on a lot of opportunities.

Bruno Zheng Wu

#25. I'm a classic movie person. I love action movies, too, but when I grew up I didn't have much action movies.

Bruno Zheng Wu

#26. I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen.

Carl Sandburg

#27. True leader will take sin upon his soul for the good of his people

Amish Tripathi

#28. If you don't have a deal, you wind up losing money.

Bruno Zheng Wu

#29. I think anybody who tries to follow the conventional Hollywood rule, will probably be better liked than the ones who try to think a little bit out of the box.

Bruno Zheng Wu

#30. I tend not to worry about what the perception is. I think people have their different views over different things. They have different opinions over different business models and over different business interests.

Bruno Zheng Wu

#31. Better to live a day on your feet than a lifetime on your knees.

Andy McNab

#32. Mr. Robertson Davies has also suggested in his Deptford Trilogy that the same great truism which applies to writing, painting, picking horses at the track, and telling lies in a sincerely believable way, also applies to magic: some people got the knack, and some people don't. Hilly didn't.

Stephen King

#33. You can be enticed by food, wooed by food, sex, money, or instruments.

Bernie Worrell

#34. I have always been full of lust - as I am now - but I have always been placing conceptual obstacles in my own path.

Susan Sontag

#35. For many women today, on a personal level, the problem is not male dominance so much as male desertion.

Nancy Pearcey

#36. I don't believe Chinese movies should only have Chinese cast and talents shooting it with a Chinese story.

Bruno Zheng Wu

#37. Hollywood is a symbol of global movies, it's not just American movies. It's become a platform and a melting pot; it's for all the talents and capital from all over the globe.

Bruno Zheng Wu

#38. For love ... is the blood of life, the power of reunion in the separated.

Paul Tillich