"No one like crying, but tears water our souls. So, perhaps my thanks should be to allow you to cry for the Chinese women in my books..."

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Source : Xinran (2010). “Sky Burial”, p.164, Random House

Xinran

#Book Quotes #Water Quotes #Soul Quotes

“No one else can match the environment we're creating for expanding the game experience to everyone. Our path is not linear, but dynamic.”

Source : "GDC 06: Satoru Iwata Keynote". www.ign.com. March 23, 2006.
“MCP, maximum controled pressure. No tomorrow, no waiting, nothing beyond the moment. We seek the perfect balance-total abandon on the drive, total control on the recovery.”
“Look, isn't there any way you can just stamp me as not crazy and let me get outta here.”

Source : "Fictional character: Gary Hobson". "Early Edition", www.imdb.com. 1996 - 2000.
“Just as one can compose colors, or forms, so one can compose motions.”

Source : Eric Zafran, Alexander Calder, Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser, Cynthia E. Roman, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (2000). “Calder in Connecticut”, Rizzoli Intl Pubns
“Making knots. Making knots. No word. Making knots. Tick-tock. This is a clock. Do not think of Gale. Do not think of Peeta. Making knots.”
“It rained in the Middle West. Farmers are learning that the relief they get from the sky beats what they get from Washington.”
“Women are of two sorts. Some of them are wiser, better learned, discreeter, and more constant than a number of men. But another and a worse sort of them...are fond, foolish, wanton, flibbergibs, tatlers, triflers, wavering, witless, without council, feeble, careless, rash, proud, dainty, nice, talebearers, eavesdroppers, rumor-raisers, evil-tongued, worse-minded, and in every way doltified with the dregs of the Devil's dunghill.”
“Cooking is at once one of the simplest and most gratifying of the arts, but to cook well one must love and respect food.”

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