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Shanghai Quotes by J. G. Ballard
- 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…
- I only realised why I keep living in Shepperton when I returned to China. All the people who moved there had come from places just…
- The dream of empire died when Shanghai surrendered without a fight. Even at the age of 11 or 12, I knew that no amount of…
- There were no museums or galleries in Shanghai, but I was very keen on art - I was always sketching and copying, and sometimes I…
- During the 1960s, the Shanghai of my childhood seemed a portent of the media cities of the future, dominated by advertising and mass circulation newspapers…
- I was in Shanghai when the Japanese invaded China. I was there in Shanghai when, the morning after Pearl Harbor, they seized Shanghai.
- In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in…
- In March 1943, my parents, four-year-old sister and I were interned with other foreign civilians at Lunghua camp, a former teacher training college outside Shanghai,…
- At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a punishment. They expected…
More Shanghai Quotes
- In Mexico City, Tehran, Kolkata, Bangkok, Shanghai, and hundreds of other cities, the air is no longer safe to breathe. In some… — Lester R. Brown
- I have to do this, as long as it is at all possible; for if those who are obliged to look after… — Karl Kraus
- However I am looking forward to the two new Grands Prixs both Shanghai and Laguna Seca are fantastic tracks and it will… — Valentino Rossi
- Rising sea levels will result in tens to hundreds of millions more people flooded each year with a warming of 3 or… — Nicholas Stern
- New York may be the city that never sleeps, but Shanghai doesn't even sit down, and not just because there is no… — Patricia Marx
- And Shanghai is amazing. I'm a fan of science fiction so when you're there in the night with all the lights and… — Berenice Marlohe
- 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
- Shanghai set out to take over from Hong Kong and I think it's done that. It's got the most amazing futuristic skyline… — Paul Oakenfold
- You walk into the playgrounds in Shanghai and Beijing, and you see youngsters who are shorter, shaking and baking and having attitude.… — David Stern
- Within my own life, I read all the beloved novels by lamps of vegetable oil; I saw the Standard Oil invading my… — Hu Shih
- 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
- The rise or fall of Shanghai means the birth or death of the whole nation. — Chiang Kai-shek