Sichuan Quotes

#1. I love the masochistic aspect of eating seething, real Sichuan food in Sichuan Province.

Anthony Bourdain

#2. Already 2008 has proved a tumultuous year in terms of global perceptions of China, and there are still 59 days to go until the Beijing Olympics. The tragedy of the Sichuan earthquake followed hard on the heels of the riots in Tibet and the demonstrations surrounding the Olympic torch relay.

Martin Jacques

#3. Sichuan food would not be Sichuanese without the hot chilies that arrived before 1700 from South America.

Raymond Sokolov

#4. The loneliest Chinese man I ever met lived halfway up the Three Gorges, in Sichuan Province.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#5. I've only ever been recognised in the street once. In Sweden, strangely.

David Nicholls

#6. I'm more embarrassed about some of the films that I've been in than I am about Playboy. Playboy I'm actually quite proud of.

Claudia Christian

#7. A boy is a piece of existence quite separate from all things else, and deserves separate chapters in the natural history of men.

Henry Ward Beecher

#8. Can often be confused with," he looked me dead in the eye, "lust.

A&E Kirk

#9. If it rained knowledge, I'd hold out my hand; but I would not give myself the trouble to go in quest of it.

Boswell

#10. Politics means competition, especially in senior positions. If you don't know that, you're not especially suited to politics.

Wolfgang Schauble

#11. Zombies are so passe

Jonathan L. Howard

#12. Mind you, if a blockbuster movie was offered, I wouldn't say no. I can do accents - I don't always have to be Scottish.

Ashley Jensen

#13. Gallantry is gentleman's quality.

Toba Beta

#14. To the intelligent man with an interest in human nature it must often appear strange that so much of the energy of the scientific world has been spent on the study of the body and so little on the study of the mind.

Edward Thorndike

#15. I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it.

Steven Wright

#16. This is the art of rationalization, and we do it so often that some researchers believe that a majority of our time is spent rationalizing. That is, we go around much of the day lying to ourselves about why we are doing most of the things we do. When

Hugh Howey

#17. Grudge no expense - yield to no opposition - forget fatigue - till, by the strength of prayer and sacrifice, the spirit of love shall have overcome .

Maria Weston Chapman