Sijie Dai famous quotes

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 #Pouring #World

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

#Heart #Character #Artist

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

#Hands #Ideas #Ends

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

#Book #Chinese #Stories

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

#Children #Political #Desire

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

#Imagination #Who We Are

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

#Treasure

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 #Men #Brain

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 #Wind #Sky

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.

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.

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.