Shanghai Girls Quotes

#1. The girls here are so young. One of them twines her fingers into mine, her hand so small I could crush it. There are more of them in the ballroom, standing well outside the pools of light that demarcate the dancing from the sitting, the illusion from the reality.

Karen Kao

#2. There is nothing innate, immutable or inevitable about boys or girls doing particularly well or badly in different subjects. Girls in Shanghai outperform western boys in math, the same boys that outshine the girls in the US. The variable factor is the educational system, the society and the parents.

Jamie Le Fay

#3. I remember looking around at the girls, the men, the drugs and the money, and wondering how long this utopia could last: the Chinese dream, in its second, prodigal generation.

Susie Gordon

#4. Rest is in Him alone. Man knows no peace in the world; but he has no disturbance when he is with God.

Bernard Of Clairvaux

#5. No wonder prostitution is so rampant in China, I mused as I watched the four girls watch us: why stand on your feet all day for slave wages when you can get rich on your back?

Tom Carter

#6. Phone service is back up and Devyn calls Issie, and then leaves to bring her over. Gram calls Mrs. Nix, the school secretary.
"She's a bear," Betty exclaims after she hangs up the phone. "I trust her."
I don't even blink.

Carrie Jones

#7. Ajax is an important development for Web applications, and its importance is only going to grow.

Jesse James Garrett

#8. 'Legends Walking' was the first of my books to go to a second printing based on strong initial orders, but much of that printing never found its audience.

Jane Lindskold

#9. You self-proclaimed "MILF" hunters have it all wrong
we aren't the prey, YOU are. You are but a Service Male - a SMILF!

Delaine Moore

#10. Words, words, words.

William Shakespeare

#11. But I just know from experience that accent wise, even if you're an accent genius, crossing the Atlantic is the hardest thing in the world either way.

Hugh Grant

#12. I wish I could play like Roger Federer.

Serena Williams

#13. I'm still James Johnson. Rick James is a stage name. James Johnson keeps Rick James on the ground ... Kind of sort of.

Rick James

#14. The discipline of the Gospel is coming to God on His terms.

Barbara Hughes

#15. We fancy that our afflictions are sent us directly from above; sometimes we think it in piety and contrition, but oftener in moroseness and discontent.

Walter Savage Landor

#16. It was an aspiring neighbourhood that retained a faint edge of slum, typical of Shanghai. Pensioners in Mao-era padded jackets would sit on doorsteps playing mah-jong, oblivious to the Prada-clad girls sweeping past on their way to work.

Hyeonseo Lee