"The Chinese, by their favourite system of dwarfing, contrive to make it, when only a foot and a half or two feet high, have all the characters of an aged cedar of Lebanon."

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Source : Robert Fortune “A Residence Among The Chinese”, Lulu.com

Robert Fortune

#Character Quotes #Two Quotes #Feet Quotes

“Donâ€™t kiss me,â€ she said warningly. â€œI donâ€™t intend to,â€ he replied, smiling a little. â€œI donâ€™t have my whip and chair with me.”
“I return to problems i can't solve, not because i am an idiot, but because the real problems can't be solved. The universe is expanding. The more we see, the more we discover there is to see. Always a new beginning, a different end.”
“FANTASTIC! There is such clarity and so much humor in Stetchâ€™s playing! I have always loved that about him.”
“I don't want to be too 'classic' because it's not in the DNA of Gucci. You need to be a little bit provocative.”

Source : Interview with Nick Smith, www.gq.com.au. April 19, 2012.
“I always thought it'd be fun to go to a sci-fi convention, watch a bunch of Klingons walking around, all of that kind of stuff.”
“I like to read the bible in public places where people are watching me read it. And I like to mumur out to myself: 'Bullshit!'”
“If at the one moment in your life when the chance of something transcendental is offered to you, if you have this chance to move beyond the surface of things, to understand - and you say, No, maybe not... What then? How do you explain the rest of your life to yourself? How do you pass the time until you die? Do you substitute for that an interest in what - eating? Do you spend the next sixty years trying to be fascinated by the act of breathing?”
“Perhaps the worst software technology of all time was the use of physical lines of code [for metrics]. Continued use of this approach, in the author's opinion, should be considered professional malpractice.”

Source : Capers Jones (1997). “Applied Software Measurement: Assuring Productivity and Quality”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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