"In Asia, red is the colour of joy; red is the colour of festivities and of celebration. In Chinese culture, blue is the colour of mourning."

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Source : "Cardiff City dare to dream after play-off heartache of recent seasons" by Stuart James, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2013.

Vincent Tan

#Blue Quotes #Mourning Quotes #Joy Quotes

“Enlightenment! When it comes, it comes like a brick to the head, doesn't it?”
“I'm quite the nagger too. I nag at the others when their chatting makes our rehearsals finish later than scheduled.”
“White middle- and upper-class men have a longer journey to go than many people.”
“I was definitely out of control, but I loved the game of basketball and I played to win and I didn't understand anything less than that. That's why I have a hard time with the young men who can't play because they went to the dentist this afternoon.”
“Sydney is rather like an arrogant lover. When it rains it can deny you its love and you can find it hard to relate to. It's not a place that's built to be rainy or cold. But when the sun comes out, it bats its eyelids, it's glamorous, beautiful, attractive, smart, and it's very hard to get away from its magnetic pull.”
“An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.”
“No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.”

Source : "Is There a Santa Claus" (editorial), Sun (N.Y.), 21 Sept. 1897.
“So far Kat has been through all the Wa's she could think of, but Hale hadn't admitted to being Walter or Ward or Washington. He'd firmly denied both Warren and Waverly. Watson had prompted him to do a very bad Sherlock Holmes impersonation throughout a good portion of a train ride to Edinburgh, Scotland. And Wayne seemed so wrong she hadn't even tried. Hale was Hale. And not knowing what the W's stood for had become a constant reminder to Kat that, in life, there are some things that can be given but never stolen. Of course, that didn't stop her from trying.”

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