Famous Quotes & Sayings

If the Chinese think the embargo problem in Europe is creating leverage for them over here, it's not going to work.

If some cities in southern China could set up ice rinks or indoor ski resorts and involve more people, the reserve force of the country's winter sportsmen will become larger.

Joshua Bell

I always have loved the Stradivarius. My teacher, Josef Gingold, he had a Stradivarius. As a treat, he would put it under my chin and let me play a few notes, and I remember that feeling of the overtones, the complexity of the sound. It's like a great wine.

He was throwing lazy jabs at me with his chin up. I stepped in with my jab and fired a right hook, then a straight left and it landed on the button.

He that can see a louse as far away as China is unconscious of an elephant on his nose

He is a tremendous competitor, a tremendous team player. The most depressing thing about China was finding out how good Jared Jordan was.

Alan Greenspan

heed fully the Chinese position on exchange rate reform.

Having Chinese leaders come to Yale is a good way (to create) more understanding between the two societies.

Henderson Land's strong gains were due mainly to speculation that it might privatize unit Hong Kong & China Gas and launch a real estate investment trust.

Hu Jintao

Hence, modernization in China remains a long and uphill journey that will entail many years of hard work,

Hugo Chavez

We can do whatever we want with the planes. Maybe we'll send 10 to Cuba, or maybe to China so that they can see the technology. I say with whatever country that can use them,

We expect to double Chinese investments in France in the coming years with a series of new incentives.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Whatever Tencent can see, the Chinese government can see.

Richard Armitage

There is a growing recognition about China as a power in the ascent, and there is a question out there about what China will do with their new ascension.

There is a growing realization that the Chinese move last week was not as huge as some interpreted it to be. Now people have worked out that it is not that significant a move.

Rebecca MacKinnon

There is a great deal of concern in the Chinese military that Taiwan's reunification with China is drifting further and further away.

The people taking it on the chin are the people at the bottom.

Billy Graham

The people of the United States want peace. The people of China want peace. The people of the Soviet Union want peace. Why can't we have peace?

We took it on the chin a lot last year. From what I'm seeing, we're showing a lot more poise.

Jim DeMint

We're opening up their market. I worked hard to put China into the WTO rule-based system.

Wang Jianlin

If you are only big in China, you are only a local Chinese company.

Azim Premji

If the United States wants access to Chinese, Indian or Vietnamese markets, we must get access to theirs. U.S. protectionism is very subtle but it is very much there.

Calvin Coolidge

[Speaking of Chinese president Sun Yat-sen] ...combined Benjamin Franklin and George Washington of China.

Momentum in the two China telecom stocks is slowing because all the good news is in the price now, ... In the near term they will follow the trend in the telecom sector, where there is still some weakness.

Momentum has been consolidated at quite a high level with strength coming mainly from mainland Chinese demand. This should be sustained through the first quarter of next year.

Tess Gerritsen

Mom and I often talked about the trip we'd someday take together to the 'city of eternal spring' where she was born. In Kunming, she said, the fruits are sweeter, the mountains look like Chinese paintings, and the weather is always perfect.

Much of the run-up this year has to do with a smaller-than-expected crop in China due to excessive rains.

Moving to a truly flexible exchange rate requires a lot of preparatory steps. China is seriously engaged in taking these preparatory steps,

Fernando Alonso

McLaren have the pressure to be perfect until China (the season's finale), and if they are not, we will be there to punish them.

My form is more on the lines of a Chinese porcelain-jar juggler. They learn it as a child. They learn, learn, learn, learn - but not with a porcelain jar. Then, when they're ready to perform, they're taken to a museum, and they're given a porcelain jar for a lifetime to use. When they're done, it's returned to the museum.

Alex Wong

Net interest margins in Hong Kong remain under pressure and Standard Chartered Bank's performance here in 2005 would likely not be as strong as in China and elsewhere in the Asia-Pacific where it has expanded aggressively.

Nepal uses its strengthening relationship with China to offset its dependence on India. Tibet is of crucial importance in all of that dynamic.

One reason we don't have so much development in China is obviously that protection of intellectual property is not like in other countries.