Shanghai Quotes · Page 2

Right after 9/11 it looked as if the idea of a huge skyscraper might be considered obsolete. It came back, but I…

— Paul Goldberger

[Shanghai Biennale] has been my attitude for as long as I've been practicing art and other cultural-related activities.

— Ai Weiwei

At least, not in this country,' she added after a moment's thought. 'In China it's a little different. Once I saw a…

— Astrid Lindgren

I grew up in Shanghai, a big urban city.

— Jenova Chen

In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of…

— J. G. Ballard

Shanghai was a peculiar city: so many people; everyone seemed to be working all the time. The skyline was beautiful.

— Yung Lean

“In 1924 Mao took a Chinese friend, newly arrived from Europe, to see the notorious sign in the Shanghai park, 'Chinese and…

— Paul Johnson

Children whose developing lungs are particularly vulnerable suffer the most from air pollution. For children, breathing the air in cities with the…

— Lester R. Brown

Why shouldn't Turkey be in the Shanghai Five?

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

I remember working with Jackie Chan on Shanghai Noon [2000], and when we were working on the script, I thought that my…

— Owen Wilson

I'm open to starting restaurants anywhere as long as the produce that's readily available is high quality. For example, I'm never doing…

— Joel Robuchon

Best Buy went and hired a lot of Shanghai staff, but went and westernised them. They only work eight hours a day!

— Zhang Jindong

I was born in Suzhou, a city not very far from Shanghai. It's a very interesting town - there is a long…

— I. M. Pei

To my child's eyes, which had seen nothing else, Shanghai was a waking dream where everything I could imagine had already been…

— J. G. Ballard

We hug, but there are no tears. For every awful thing that's been said and done, she is my sister. Parents die,…

— Lisa See

I really, really love China. To be honest, the food is so amazing! When I first went to Beijing and Shanghai, I…

— Tyra Banks

The primary school I attended in Shanghai was a very liberal one, established by scholars who had return from an education in…

— Charles K. Kao

While certain coastal cities have become very prosperous, the rest of China has a per capita income of $200 a year. The…

— George Friedman

The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with…

— J. G. Ballard

This rise of the new global mega-rich is happening as established institutions are falling. The fall runs the gamut from the music…

— Robert Kiyosaki

I talked to Oscar about Shanghai SIPG before he made the move.

— Hulk

You get a series of super-typhoons into Shanghai and millions of people die. Does the population there lose faith in Chinese government?…

— David Titley

At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a…

— J. G. Ballard

I was the female lead in a romantic comedy. It's a little indie film that we shot in China called 'America Town,'…

— Eliza Coupe

For me, 'Shanghai' is beyond language. For me, it's good cinema. The language is incidental.

— Prosenjit Chatterjee