Yu Hua Quotes

#1. You don't have to pay tax on bullshit

Yu Hua

#2. All sensible investing is value investing

Charlie Munger

#3. Sean's face turned beet red. "No bloody way, Macgregor. Lay a hand on her and I'll kill you." His enraged gaze traveled to D. "Same goes for you, you psycho. You're not touching her.

Elle Kennedy

#4. The emperor beckons me; he wants me to marry his daughter.
The road to the capital is long and distant; I don't want her.

Yu Hua

#5. People fear getting famous just as pigs fear getting fat. Reflecting the observation that fame invites a fall just as a fattened pig invites the butcher.

Yu Hua

#6. It's better to live an ordinary life. If you go on striving for this and that, you'll end up paying with your life.

Yu Hua

#7. With relief I arrived at memory's peak,
and a broader landscape came into view.

Yu Hua

#8. If literature truly possesses a mysterious power, I think perhaps it is precisely this: that one can read a book by a writer of a different time, a different country, a different race, a different language, and a different culture and there encounter a sensation that is one's very own.

Yu Hua

#9. revolution was just a short step away from counterrevolution.

Yu Hua

#10. What does it say, 'I beat Meryl,'

Jennifer Lawrence

#11. The children are taught more of the meanest state in Europe than of the country they are born and bred in, despite the singularity of its characteristics, the interest of its history, the rapidity of its advance, and the stupendous promise of its future.

Henry Lawson

#12. My emotional state then was cramped and confined, like a room with tightly sealed windows and doors: although love's footsteps could be heard outside the room, I felt they were steps heading somewhere else--until one day when the steps came to a halt and the bell rang.

Yu Hua

#13. I thank thee, Mother Nature, that thou hast put ingenuity enough in the brain of a child, when attacked by a brutal parent, to throw up a little breastwork in the shape of a lie.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#14. We were fishers of memory waiting on the banks of time and waiting for the past to swallow the date.

Yu Hua

#15. When a young man massacres innocents, we have been trained to believe that the act was due to improper levels of chemical enzymes and misfiring synapses. As we learn more about our cells, we forget more about our souls.

Gary Bauer

#16. Life isn't all beer and skittles; few of us have touched a skittle in years.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#17. The more boldly a man dares, the more richly his land bears

Yu Hua

#18. Fill your life with what you love. That's my hope for you.

Shannon Lee Alexander

#19. Three or four years ago, a city education bureau announced a new measure to raise the quality of local teachers and enable graduating high school seniors to be more competitive in the university entrance examination.

Yu Hua

#20. Be the light in every dark corner.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#21. No matter how lucky a person is, the moment he decides he wants to die, there's nothing that will keep him alive.

Yu Hua

#22. In times like these, who had either the leisure or the inclination to indulge in a touch of elegance?

Yu Hua

#23. Your life is given to you by your parents. If you don't want to live, you have to ask them first.

Yu Hua

#24. Is soap cool again, or is body wash still the way to go?

Mindy Kaling

#25. At first, writing actually felt the more arduous of the two activities. But in order to reach cultural-center nirvana, I forced myself to continue. I was young then and it was no easy matter to persuade my bottom to maintain such constant intimacy with my chair

Yu Hua

#26. My mother often said, as long as a person is happy at work, then poverty is nothing to be ashamed of.

Yu Hua

#27. It was just as summer arrived that I met an old man named Fugui.

Yu Hua

#28. ... because my memory had caught up with the world that had gone away.

Yu Hua

#29. Louis Armstrong is jazz. He represents what the music is all about.

Wynton Marsalis

#30. In general, shorter is better. If you can encapsulate your idea into a single captivating sentence, you're halfway home.

Len Wein

#31. The mobster came by my establishment and said I needed protection. "Nope," I replied, "I've already got protection." Then I showed him how I wear a rubber glove over my penis, with my shaft sliding perfectly in the pinky finger slot.

Jarod Kintz

#32. As soon as the train pulled into the station, the red guards would pour out of doors and windows like toothpaste squirting endlessly from a tube.

Yu Hua

#33. I don't understand how they can call me anti-Latino, when I've made four movies in Mexico.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#34. Leadership is about focus and concentrations. To be in focus, choose a clear direction. To concentrate, remain in that direction!

Israelmore Ayivor