Oriental Quotes

44 quotes by 43 authors

I was studying acting in New York, and wasn't being hired by anyone to do anything other than to work in an Oriental rug warehouse. — Thomas F. Wilson
We find collected in this book [The Bible] the superstitious beliefs of the ancient inhabitants of Palestine, with indistinct echoes of Indian and Persian fables,… — Max Nordau
A metaphysician is one who, when you remark that twice two makes four, demands to know what you mean by twice, what by two, what… — H. L. Mencken
In Botswana in the Kalahari Desert there's a tented camp called Jack's Camp, which is like old Africa meets Ralph Lauren. The Oriental rugs, the… — Mark Burnett
First of all you must understand that practising martial arts means studying a certain oriental philosophy of life, otherwise it's merely a vacuous sport devoid… — William C. Brown
It's the same mysterious exotic oriental fragrance as what the Beatles get off on. — Frank Zappa
I mean, in general, the danger is from Oriental faiths and Islam. — Vladimir Zhirinovsky
If you review the commercial history, you will discover anyone who controls oriental trade will get hold of global wealth. — James J. Hill
True, when you behold Damascus from the Salahiyeh, the last slope of the Anti-Lebanon, it is the realization of all that you have dreamed of… — Bayard Taylor
Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these… — David Hockney
China has no desire to replace Western imperialism in Asia with an Oriental imperialism or isolationism of its own or anyone else. — Chiang Kai-shek
For every bourgeois, in the heat of youth, if only for a day, for a minute, has believed himself capable of immense passions, of heroic… — Gustave Flaubert
I don't know if you know it, J.B., but you're the sort of fellow who causes hundreds to fall under suspicion when he's found stabbed… — P.G. Wodehouse
I have an evening dress, pink mull over silk (I'm perfectly beautiful in that), and a blue church dress, and a dinner dress of red… — Jean Webster
Shot me twice. I want my name, or I'm going to start charging you a fee every time I field something for you. And it's… — Kim Harrison
Consider it this way: what would you say if a blond homecoming queen fell in love with a short Japanese businessman? He treats her cruelly,… — David Henry Hwang
Call me tacky, but I love the union of sweet and sour, even in some now-unloved Oriental dishes incorporating pineapple and ketchup. — Yotam Ottolenghi
The world today needs both western thinking and oriental vision. — Li Keqiang
Their chief residence was Bagdad, where they remained until the eleventh century, an age fatal in Oriental history, from the disasters of which the Princes… — Isaac D'Israeli
Faulkner was almost oriental. I never got into Faulkner. — Tom T. Hall

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