Xiao S Quotes

#1. Acknowledge diversity and you will achieve unity. (Rabindranath Tagore)

Zhu Xiao-Mei

#2. Be that as it may, it may be maybe

Jarod Kintz

#3. It's OK if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.

Billy Joel

#4. The German Air Force was not sufficient to protect the sea crossing on its own. While the leading part of the forces might have landed, there was the danger that they might be cut off from supplies and reinforcements.

Gerd Von Rundstedt

#5. After all, the whole of humanity was anchored by inventions, contrivances, unrealities. Xiao Li lived on dreams, as most people do.

Victor Robert Lee

#6. What took you so long? Waiting for Buddha?

Victor Robert Lee

#7. This time we'll be fighting for the nation. The company commander says that it's better to be the ghost of a fallen soldier than a nationless slave. For the sake of our fellow countrymen, our families and our children, we have to resist to the very end ... ("Vague Expectations")

Xiao Hong

#8. I was a puzzle. An enigma. I was nothing. And then I was again.

Daniel Xiao Wang

#9. There's nothing wrong with doing sequels, they're just easier to sell.

J.J. Abrams

#10. Everything was burning. Today it was the bodies; tomorrow it would be the spirit.

Zhu Xiao-Mei

#11. I always liked how people like Grace Jones and Annie Lennox pushed it with the videos. I'm not the most stylish person at all, but there's something about playing dress-up for the day and playing the role of a singer.

Jessie Ware

#12. That's a demon for you. Wants me dead but wants to be sure that he is the one who does me in.

Daniel Xiao Wang

#13. It is the childlike part of us that produces works of the imagination. When we were children time passed so slow with us that we seemed to have time for everything.

William Morris

#14. When God stops whispering, they become desperate for someone who can put things right.

Anthony Doerr

#15. There was no bang, no light at the end of a tunnel. I didn't feel pain or even numb, and Sirius was right, it was quicker and easier than falling asleep

Daniel Xiao Wang

#16. I think if you're writing a play, it should be its own end game; you'll never get to do a good one unless you know it's not a blueprint for a film; you're not going to get the action right and the story right.

Martin McDonagh

#17. Utopia never really is. And the perfection we seek will always disappoint.

Daniel Xiao Wang

#18. And yet Xiao Li always spoke of her mother as if her image were mounted in a red-and-gold picture frame resting on a shrine in the corner of a tidy house, to be venerated and pleased at all times, like a deceased ancestor ever-present and scrutinizing her progeny.

Victor Robert Lee

#19. She was like him, trying to embrace the moon while making her way in the world through instinct and drive that came only from within, because she had only herself.

Victor Robert Lee

#20. As the trees turned red, then white, then naked as pitchforks, Margot and Xiao Chen immersed themselves in several forests' worth of pages, and I watched, tortured, as brick after brick of a new development was laid on the wasteland of Midtown West like slabs of gold bullion.

Carolyn Jess-Cooke

#21. Teach For China recruits top American and Chinese college graduates, like 26-year-old Yang Xiao, to teach in the country's most disadvantaged schools.

Wendy Kopp

#22. Montesquieu wrote: "I have never known any distress that an hour of reading did not relieve." If one substituted the word music for reading, the exact same dictum applied to me.

Zhu Xiao-Mei

#23. That's what life is all about - you're busy, I'm busy, and the end result is death. Sooner or later, that's what it comes to. ("The Death Of Wang Asao")

Xiao Hong

#24. For years now, Chinese parents and teachers have lamented what's known as the 'xiao huangdi' - or little emperor - phenomenon, a generation of pampered and entitled children who believe they sit at the center of the social universe because that's exactly how they've been treated.

Jeffrey Kluger