Wang Mu Quotes

Wang-mu was surprised to hear Peter sound so oriental. The American way was to make excuses, to stay and argue. ~ Orson Scott Card

Wang-mu fell silent, but not because she was embarrassed. She simply had nothing to say, and therefore said nothing. ~ Orson Scott Card

Without the participation of one fifth of the global population, without the endorsement of the world's second-largest economy, without the political will and security guarantee of this emerging power, international institutions and norms will be irrelevant and the legitimacy and credibility of their resolutions and arrangements will fall short of promise. ~ Wang Yizhou

Some of them screamed. Some of them wept. Some of them grinned like LSD was a blast. A case officer said John Stanton hatched the idea - lets flood Cuba with this shit before we invade. Langley co-signed the brainstorm. Langley embellished it: Let's induce mass hallucinations and stage the second coming of Christ!!!! Langley found some suicidal actors. Langley dolled them up to look like J.C. Langley had them set to pre-invade Cuba concurrent with the dope saturation. Peter howled. The case officer said, 'It's not funny.' A drug-zorched peon whipped out his wang and jacked off. ~ James Ellroy

Real sharpness comes without effort. ~ Li Mu

As an entrepreneur at heart, I am excited to see so many new opportunities, and I am honoured to accept this opportunity to help shape the next stage of HTC's development, ~ Cher Wang

An equation.

happiness = reality - expectations
If reality > expectations, then you are happy.
If reality < expectations, then you are not. ~ Weike Wang

I used to work for an SOE. The wealth I created didn't belong to me. In other words, I was only managing money for the country and the people. ~ Wang Shi

The autumn hill gathers the remaining light, A flying bird chases after its companion. The green color is bright And brings me into the moment, like a sunset mist that has no fixed place. ~ Wang Wei

But if I learned one thing from Firebird, it's that a person's tragedy doesn't define them or cancel all the good in their life. ~ M.L. Wang

Like many things, I am nothing. ~ Li Mu

Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change. ~ An Wang

I was, allegedly, free of him, and I was safe, but I'd lost faith in that delusion a long time ago. ~ Esmé Weijun Wang

I love sportswear in my own weird way. Fashion is such a personal journey for me. I'm much more of a girl that's a T-shirt, legging, layering kind of thing, and outerwear. ~ Vera Wang

Remain close to government and away from politics. It means deal more with the authorities. And less with individuals. ~ Wang Jianlin

She is in search of a language that is tactile, palatial, and self-immolating - a language that will correspond to her latent desire to disintegrate and expand. To become the room. ~ Jackie Wang

I've always said I'm not the kind of designer who likes to lock himself away in a studio and let the rest of the company deal with it. I work very closely with everyone on the team. ~ Alexander Wang

Among psychiatric researchers, having a job is considered one of the major characteristics of being a high-functioning person. ... Most critically, a capitalist society values productivity in its citizens above all else, and those with severe mental illness are much less likely to be productive in ways considered valuable: by adding to the cycle of production and profit. ~ Esmé Weijun Wang

A lot of my work is a matter of reacting to surprises in life. ~ Alexander Wang

Within HTC, hundreds of ideas are tested and discarded to find those rare ideas that define the HTC user experience. ~ Cher Wang

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

At our next session, the shrink calls this metaphor psychological warfare. You must rise above it, she says. They're just words being said many miles away.

That phrase about sticks and stones and bones.

But my bones are very brittle. And I am lactose intolerant. ~ Weike Wang

Class, I'd like us all to give a warm mayflower elementary welcome to your new friend and classmate Jing Jang!"
"Jin Wang"
"Jin wang!"
"He and his family recently moved to our neighborhood all the way from China!"
"San Francisco."
"San Francisco!"
"Yes, Timmy."
"My momma says Chinese people eat dogs."
"Now be nice, Timmy!" -km sure Jin doesn't do that! In fact, Jin's family probably stopped that sort of thing as soon as they came to the united states!"
The only other asian in my class was Suzy Nakamura.
When the class finally figured out that we weren't related, rumors began to circulate that suzy and I were arranged to be married on her thirteenth birthday.
We avoided each other as much as possible.
(30-31) ~ Gene Luen Yang

Muse. Mu-se. It's a great thing, for someone to feel that they can draw inspiration from you. And I don't think it's necessarily a man 'taking' from a woman. It can go both ways, both can stimulate, excite. ~ Chloe Sevigny

An ideal world: money falls from the sky and into my lap for each word that I write. A one-dollar flat rate. A twenty for a real zinger. ~ Weike Wang

Montana was naked, and so was Billy, of course. He had a tremendous wang, incidentally. You never know who'll get one. ~ Kurt Vonnegut

Cultural industries will be the next engine for growth after real estate, and Wanda will make cultural industries our long-term focus. ~ Wang Jianlin

Miss Lilly." Mr. Kan stood up and solemnly shook her hand. "When there is such a large gap of years between two friends, we Chinese call it wang nien chih chiao, a friendship that forgets the years. It's destiny that brings us together. I hope you will always think of me and Teddy as your friends. ~ Ken Liu

It's hard sometimes to take a step back and realize what's happened because you're always trying to move forward. You're always looking at the next palette. ~ Alexander Wang

Marrying into a different culture means you are not trapped by your own, which is how I felt." Wang ~ Angela Nicoara

The Completer and Wu Wang all used spears and battle-axes in order to succor their generation. The SSU-MA FA says: If one man slay another of set purpose, he himself ~ Sun Tzu

A habit that forms from this is that I can ask Eric questions when he is asleep.

Once I hear the first snore, I say, Why is your trajectory so straight? Why is your family so nice? It seems unfair how easy everything comes to you. In your last life you must have been a dung beetle. Or someone who gave up his life for someone else. Perhaps a pregnant woman crossing the street.

Do you remember?

Then I part his autumn hair and bring my voice down to a whisper. Please stop, just for a little while, and let me catch up. How do you expect me to marry you if you never let me catch up? ~ Weike Wang

Walking on willow tree roads by a river dappled with peach blossoms, I look for spring light, but am everywhere lost. Birds fly up and scatter floating catkins. A ponderous wave of flowers sags the branches. ~ Wang Wei

Thank God for you, then. If it weren't for the power of your mighty wang, a lot of innocent men might have died. ~ Rosalie Lario

Young has a personal relationship with electricity. In Europe, where the electrical current is sixty cycles, not fifty, he can pinpoint the fluctuation --- by degrees. It dumbfounded Cragg. "He'll say, 'Larry, there's a hundred volts coming out of the wall, isn't there?' I'll go measure it, and yeah, sure --- he can hear the difference."

Shakey's innovations are everywhere. Intent on controlling amp volume from his guitar instead of the amp, Young had a remote device designed called the Whizzer. Guitarists marvel at the stomp box that lies onstage at Young's feet: a byzantine gang of effects that can be utilized without any degradation to the original signal. Just constructing the box's angular red wooden housing to Young's extreme specifications had craftsmen pulling their hair out.

Cradled in a stand in front of the amps is the fuse for the dynamite, Young's trademark ax--Old Black, a '53 Gold Top Les Paul some knot-head daubed with black paint eons ago. Old Black's features include a Bigsby wang bar, which pulls strings and bends notes, and Firebird picking so sensitive you can talk through it. It's a demonic instrument. "Old black doesn't sound like any other guitar," said Cragg, shaking his head.

For Cragg, Old Black is a nightmare. Young won't permit the ancient frets to be changed, likes his strings old and used, and the Bigsby causes the guitar to go out of tune constantly. "At Sound check, everything will work great. Neil picks up th ~ Jimmy McDonough

Success isn't about the end result, it's about what you learn along the way. ~ Vera Wang

Extraordinary, some people have said when he speaks now of how he got here.
Through hard work, he says, and the learning of advanced math.
Amazing, others have said.
But such progress he's made in one generation that to progress beyond him, I feel as if I must leave America and colonize the moon. ~ Weike Wang