Shanghai Baby Quotes

#1. Zen teaches that once we can open up to the inevitability of our demise, we can begin to transform that situation and lighten up about it.

Allen Klein

#2. Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Marcel Proust

#3. He looked up quietly. "You know, don't you, Thee, that I think you are just the finest thing I've struck in this world?"
The tears ran down Thea's cheeks. "You're too good to me, Ray. You're a lot too good to me," she faltered.

Willa Cather

#4. If you go up there Old Georgie'll freeze you an' dig out your soul with a cruel'n'crookit spoony an' eat it so you'll never even be reborned an' your body'll be turned into a frostbited boulder.

David Mitchell

#5. Crazy people are considered mad by the rest of the society only because their intelligence isn't understood.

Zhou Weihui

#6. To lead others out of darkness, let them see your light.

Tristan Bernard

#7. Quiet people often have a weather sense that loud people lack. They feel the wind-changes of conversations, and shiver in the chill of unspoken resentments.

Frances Hardinge

#8. We find what's in our own heads.

T. Scott McLeod

#9. In the last year or two he had not only grown indifferent to company, he had begun to find it irritating.

Larry McMurtry

#10. Titles have never given a just idea of things; were it otherwise, the work would be superfluous.

Gustave Courbet

#11. He tried to soften his mouth against hers, tried to tell her he was sorry, but she stayed frozen in his arms, as if she couldn't believe, after everything that had happened, that he thought he could break her heart and take a kiss too.

Amy Harmon

#12. The measure of a design is how easily it accommodates changes. With no changes, it's a runner who never leaves the starting line.

Robert Nystrom

#13. Give yourself permission 2 evolve. Become a philosopher; come up with your own interpretation of life and stop accepting someone else's as your truth.

Germany Kent

#14. He was working hard at increasing his life span. He did it by cultivating boredom.

Joseph Heller

#15. In Seoul, people like me get called Japanese bastards, and in Japan, I'm just another dirty Korean no matter how much money I make or how nice I am. So what the fuck?

Min Jin Lee

#16. dope-pushers hang around there. But taking dope is even dumber than smoking, so nobody's going to hook me! We live on

Judy Blume

#17. My grandmother would shanghai pilots at the Havana airport so they'd bring me cartons of mango baby food
the only kind I'd eat. I learned to eat peach later. And in every carton, she'd slip in a Cuban record.

Gloria Estefan