Beijing Quote by Ma Jian Download Open image “Beijing Coma took me 10 years to finish.” — Ma Jian ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Beijing Coma Years
Once in a while - perhaps every 10 years, or even every generation - a novel appears that profoundly questions the way we look… — Tash Aw Copy Share Image
I was in and out of comas until I was nine and I would lose entire days and weeks. The novelty of being able… — Jim Davis Copy Share Image
In Beijing the emotion built and built. I was at a Paralympics and I was so nervous. When I achieved my goal all that… — Ellie Simmonds Copy Share Image
I was an ICU nurse for eight years, so it was a long time spent in a pretty critical environment. — Gabby Windey Copy Share Image
I wanted to do something far from my intellectual and physical home, so I went to live in Beijing for eight months and took… — Mira Sorvino Copy Share Image
Having all that experience, and that success as well, at a Paralympics was just amazing but I don't really remember much from Beijing, it… — Ellie Simmonds Copy Share Image
After university, I travelled through China for about two or three months in 1985. It was very much a closed-off country and no one… — Hugh Dennis Copy Share Image
I think the biggest thing was that I was putting pressure on myself leading up to Beijing. Now I am learning how to take… — Ryan Hall Copy Share Image
I did go to Beijing, with a two-year assignment. I stayed four years. And those four years were the most formative four years in… — Dinesh Paliwal Copy Share Image
After I came back [to China], there was still a long period of time when I felt I had nothing to do. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
I was still young when I missed Beijing. I was favourite to win a medal but I knew I had time. My coach advised… — David Rudisha Copy Share Image
As soon as I got the Nobel Prize my back collapsed and I was in hospital. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Everything I was I carry with me, everything I will belies waiting on the road ahead. — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
I am trying to persuade my family to spend more time in China. It's no fun to be in exile. I can't even figure… — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
“I see my skeleton walking down the street now. I’m walking behind it. Our feet touch the ground at the same time. I am… — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
Red Dust was about the late 1980s; it was a time of burgeoning hopes and opening up and people searching for new ways. — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize… — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
I am completely in favour of dialogue and engagement. But it must be a true, open dialogue. — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
I have to live within my memories, within my private universe, and continually return to China, the land where my thoughts are locked. This… — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
After the Tiananmen Massacre, I felt compelled not only to continue writing but to actively resist the restrictions placed on freedom of speech. I… — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
The Beijing Olympics represent China's grand entrance onto the world stage and confirmation of its new superpower status. — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
China is completely lacking in self-awareness and as someone who has stepped outside that society, I have a responsibility to write about it as… — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
“When our parents are alive, they stand in front of us, blocking our view of death. But once they’ve gone, we find ourselves at… — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
It is vitally important for me, both personally and for my writing, to be able to return to China freely, so being barred entry… — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
I painted the words "GREAT ADVENTURE" in Beijing, Dallas, San Francisco, Copenhagen, and Japan. What it means to me is completely different to everybody… — Ben Eine Copy Share Image
I see the Beijing National Stadium as an architectural project. I accepted Herzog and De Meuron's invitation to collaborate on the design, and our… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Often GOP political strategy seems like the human wave theory of the Chinese military translated to politics. Where Beijing uses masses of soldiers to… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
Air pollution is my biggest concern right now. Maybe because I live in Beijing, and in this city we have such severe challenges due… — Li Bingbing Copy Share Image
Well it did not make excessive sense to say that 20 million people are the recognized government of a billion people that have their… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
I was born and raised in Vancouver. I moved to Beijing in 2010 just before the Olympics. Being an Asian Canadian actor, the amount… — Osric Chau Copy Share Image
By 2040, the Sahara will be moving into Europe and Berlin will be as hot as Baghdad. Atlanta will end up a kudzu jungle.… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
Team GB's success at the Beijing Olympics can, in part, be said to have been made in Manchester. For example, all the cycling medal… — Lucy Powell Copy Share Image
Beijing would indeed consider vetoing any American effort to sanction Iran at the Security Council. — Li Zhaoxing Copy Share Image
Space is about 100 kilometers away. That’s far away—I wouldn’t want to climb a ladder to get there—but it isn’t that far away. If… — Randall Munroe Copy Share Image
I think the biggest thing was that I was putting pressure on myself leading up to Beijing. Now I am learning how to take… — Ryan Hall Copy Share Image
My approach to gymnastics in Beijing was heavily based on the amount of difficulty I could do. — Shawn Johnson Copy Share Image
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