The Mandarins Quotes

#1. I would like to save all books, those that are banned, those that are burned, or forgotten with contempt by the mandarins who want to tell us what is good and what is bad. Every book has a soul ... and I believe every book is worth saving from either bigotry or oblivion.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#2. I liked to screw around in the kitchen when I was a kid. But I started cooking when I was 15.

Michael Mina

#3. I really love how the andante from the "A minor Sonata" sounds on the mandolin.

Chris Thile

#4. At a time when public finances are under huge strain, we surely do not need to pay celebrities to wax lyrical to mandarins. Unless American comedians can make the Home Office fit for purpose, the taxpayer won't be laughing.

Chris Huhne

#5. Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.

Voltaire

#6. Thoughts and feelings are suspended in a vacuum unless they instigate and feed the selected actions, and it is the characters actions which reveal the character in the play.

Uta Hagen

#7. The best filmmakers, I think, have always had very narrow frameworks for their stories, and then they can go deeply, rather than skimming the surface.

Paul Auster

#8. Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands - two equally harmful disciplines.

Simone De Beauvoir

#9. I hate that aesthetic game of the eye and the mind, played by these connoisseurs, these mandarins who "appreciate" beauty. What is beauty, anyway? There's no such thing. I never "appreciate," any more than I "like." I love it or I hate.

Pablo Picasso

#10. It stared at them, and it paused for a hundred years, which transpired in a dozen heart beats.

Neil Gaiman

#11. What is dead can never die.

George R R Martin

#12. But there is a place where people like me live and love while fretting constantly about their own mortality and the fate of the universe. I know who I am now: I am a New Yorker.

Mara Wilson

#13. I really like when I read a scene and it scares me. That makes me excited.

Lily Rabe

#14. Our bodies heal without permission but our hearts need consent. Give it.

Lauren Eden

#15. To take the choice of another ... to forget their concrete reality, to abstract them, to forget that you are a node in a matrix, that actions have consequences. We must not take the choice of another being. What is community but a means to ... for all we individuals to have ... our choices.

China Mieville

#16. This one looks good," said Chong over breakfast the next morning.
Benny read out loud from the paper. "'Pit Thrower.' What's that?"
"I don't know," Chong said with a mouth full of toast. "I think it has something to do with barbecuing."
It didn't.

Jonathan Maberry

#17. I'm interested in seeing just the girl on the street because she is unlike any other. I'm inspired by whatever it is she might be wearing.

Anna Wintour

#18. My affection for Taiwan ... is witnessed by everyone. My wife is Taiwanese and I am a son-in-law of Taiwan. I am half Taiwanese.

Jackie Chan

#19. I began to realize that when you are at peace with your Maker you can, if not ignore human criticism, at least rise above it.

Ezra Taft Benson