Sijie Dai Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“I was carried away, swept along by the mighty stream of words pouring from the hundreds of pages. To me it was the ultimate book: once you had read it, neither your own life nor the world you lived in would ever look the same.”
-- Sijie Dai

#Book Quotes #Pouring Quotes #World Quotes

“Calligraphy may well be simply an artistic version of another form, that is the ideograms which make up the poem, but then not only does it reflect the character and temperament of the artist but . . . also betrays his heart rate, his breathing.”
-- Sijie Dai

Source : Dai Sijie (2009). “Once on a Moonless Night”, p.17, Random House

#Heart Quotes #Character Quotes #Artist Quotes

“In the end we had changed the position of the hands so many times that we had no idea what the time really was.”
-- Sijie Dai

Source : Sijie Dai (2002). “Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress”, Anchor

#Hands Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Ends Quotes

“In Chinese love stories the one who loves always starts by borrowing a book from the beloved.”
-- Sijie Dai

Source : Dai Sijie (2009). “Once on a Moonless Night”, p.59, Random House

#Book Quotes #Chinese Quotes #Stories Quotes

“It would evidently take more than a political regime, more than dire poverty to stop a woman from wanting to be well-dressed: it was a desire as old as the world, as old as the desire for children.”
-- Sijie Dai

Source : Sijie Dai (2002). “Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress”, Anchor

#Children Quotes #Political Quotes #Desire Quotes

“Our imagination is dictated by who we are. (198)”
-- Sijie Dai

#Imagination Quotes #Who We Are Quotes

“A woman's beauty is a treasure beyond price.”
-- Sijie Dai

Source : Sijie Dai (2002). “Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress”, Anchor

#Treasure Quotes

“Without him (Jean-Christophe) I would never have understood the splendour of taking free andindependent action as an individual. Up until this stolen encounter with brains had been incapable of graspingthe notion of one man standing up against the whole world...................To me it was the ultimate book: once youhad read it, neither your own life nor the world you lived in would ever look the same.”
-- Sijie Dai

#Book Quotes #Men Quotes #Brain Quotes

“A name with a gently exotic ring to it, like birdsong, like a grain of sand in the far-off Gobi Desert or the northern steppes, whipped up by the wind, carried by storms, swirling through the sky, travelling, crossing whole countries without knowing quite how, and ending up in the crook of my ear.”
-- Sijie Dai

#Country Quotes #Wind Quotes #Sky Quotes

“Books are the basis; purity is the force; preaching is the essence; utility is the principle.”

“And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.”

“The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity...”

“As life tends to become more and more distracting, let us firmly hold on to books.”

“I always thought the name of Utah’s major newspaper was some sort of weird misspelling of the word “desert.” But no, Deseret is the “land of the honeybee,” according to the Book of Mormon. I guess I should have figured they would have caught a typo in the masthead after 154 years.”

Source : A. J. Jacobs (2004). “The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

“There was an extensive collection of cookbooks in the well-stocked library, and he took to pouring over these in the evenings.”

“Love is like the rain. It comes in a drizzle sometimes. Then it starts pouring and if you're not careful it will drown you.”

Source : Edwidge Danticat (2003). “Breath, Eyes, Memory”, p.48, Soho Press

“Our fans would never waste good beer by pouring it on us,”

“God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.”

“It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.”