Xu Beihong Quotes

#1. Reality was utterly coolheaded and utterly lonely.

Haruki Murakami

#2. Therefore he who would administer the kingdom, honouring it as he honours his own person, may be employed to govern it, and he who would administer it with the love which he bears to his own person may be entrusted with it.

Lao-Tzu

#3. I would say that the evocative qualities of music are usually put there in post-production in the reverb. It's really not much about the musicians as the engineering. It's post-production that's being done by the musician at the time.

Stephin Merritt

#4. Meanwhile, in a final insult of fate, the Queen and Cardinal Pole died on the same day in November 1558, Pole the victim of an exceptionally vicious influenza epidemic.

Diarmaid MacCulloch

#5. Jabor finally appeared at the top of the stairs, sparks of flame radiating from his body and igniting the fabric of the house around him. He caught sight of the boy, reached out his hand and stepped forward.
And banged his head nicely on the low-slung attic door.

Jonathan Stroud

#6. My mother was a listener. I'm a talker. I'm very comfortable talking.

Diane Keaton

#7. Tradition is the social equivalent of personal habit.

Hassan Fathy

#8. When I was growing up, everybody smoked, including me. When I was 14, I started. We all did it. That was just the way it was. And nowadays there's a stigma attached to it. It's a big shift.

Wayne Dyer