Shanghai Quotes
40 quotes by 30 authors
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In Mexico City, Tehran, Kolkata, Bangkok, Shanghai, and hundreds of other cities, the air is no longer safe to breathe. In some cities, the air…
— Lester R. Brown
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I have to do this, as long as it is at all possible; for if those who are obliged to look after commas had always…
— Karl Kraus
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However I am looking forward to the two new Grands Prixs both Shanghai and Laguna Seca are fantastic tracks and it will be good to…
— Valentino Rossi
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Rising sea levels will result in tens to hundreds of millions more people flooded each year with a warming of 3 or 4°C. There will…
— Nicholas Stern
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New York may be the city that never sleeps, but Shanghai doesn't even sit down, and not just because there is no room.
— Patricia Marx
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And Shanghai is amazing. I'm a fan of science fiction so when you're there in the night with all the lights and all this modernity,…
— Berenice Marlohe
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The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of…
— J. G. Ballard
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Shanghai set out to take over from Hong Kong and I think it's done that. It's got the most amazing futuristic skyline which rivals and…
— Paul Oakenfold
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You walk into the playgrounds in Shanghai and Beijing, and you see youngsters who are shorter, shaking and baking and having attitude. And Jeremy Lin…
— David Stern
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Within my own life, I read all the beloved novels by lamps of vegetable oil; I saw the Standard Oil invading my own village, I…
— Hu Shih
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I was the female lead in a romantic comedy. It's a little indie film that we shot in China called 'America Town,' starring Daniel Henney…
— Eliza Coupe
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The rise or fall of Shanghai means the birth or death of the whole nation.
— Chiang Kai-shek
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I certainly gained a lot by reading about Shanghai.
— Ralph Fiennes
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If I am duly compared to Marlon Brando at all, well, I can only think of The Teahouse of the 'Shanghai Noon,' that they're comparing…
— Tom Hardy
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I made 'Empire of the Sun' in Shanghai in the 1980s and want to come back one day to make a movie in China.
— Steven Spielberg
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We hug, but there are no tears. For every awful thing that's been said and done, she is my sister. Parents die, daughters grow up…
— Lisa See
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At least, not in this country,' she added after a moment's thought. 'In China it's a little different. Once I saw a Chinaman in Shanghai.…
— Astrid Lindgren
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Will: 'Singing the praises of our fair city? We treat you well here, don't we, James? I doubt I'd have that kind of luck in…
— Cassandra Clare
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I went to China for a brief working visit, and I thought that Shanghai was interesting, but Beijing totally grabbed me.
— Marcus Brigstocke
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I got into the Shanghai Drama Institute because my parents, like all parents, want their children to have good grades and to go to a…
— Li Bingbing
Who Wrote These Shanghai Quotes
30 authors contributed a total of 40 Shanghai Quotes, led by these top contributors: