Romanized Chinese Quotes

#1. A scholar like myself who is not a Sinologist and yet ventures the proposition that Chinese languages should be rewritten in the Greek alphabet (or "Romanized", to use the current term) is treading on uncharted territory (for him) and does so at his peril.

Eric A. Havelock

#2. Do you want to injure someone's reputation? Don't speak ill of him, speak too well.

Andre Siegfried

#3. English is such a deliciously complex and undisciplined language, we can bend, fuse, distort words to all our purposes. We give old words new meanings, and we borrow new words from any language that intrudes into our intellectual environment.

Willard Gaylin

#4. One of the most successful men I have known never carried a watch until he began to earn ten thousand dollars a year.

Charles M. Schwab

#5. Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.

Emil Cioran

#6. Cobbles are enormously evocative, like the scent of forgotten objects and remembered melodies.

Justin Cartwright

#7. I always believe in doing new things and using new materials that I have never used or that I didn't like for a long time.

Miuccia Prada