Dangerous Quote by Xiaolu Guo Download Open image “I’m saying language is a passport. A dubious, dangerous passport too.” — Xiaolu Guo ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dangerous Dubious Language Passports
Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don't have a passport. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Languages are jealous sovereigns, and passports are rarely allowed for travellers to cross their strictly guarded borders. — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
I tore up and ate my own passport in an airport hotel once. I'm bloated with language I can’t afford to forget. — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
“An invalid, one who has been invalidated. No valid passport. No exit. That” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The more languages you know, the less likely you are to become a terrorist. — Upamanyu Chatterjee Copy Share Image
A passport, as I'm sure you know, is a document that one shows to government officials whenever one reaches a border between two countries,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is not truth, but opinion that can travel the world without a passport. — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
Not having a passport makes me very blasé about what appears in foreign periodicals since I know I'll never see it. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Without a passport humans wouldn't know where they’re from, who they are or who their enemy is, and their enemy wouldn't know why they… — Craig Stone Copy Share Image
Somehow, in the novel format, I don't really like to do upfront, ideological discussion. In my heart, literature remains a poetic and ambiguous medium.… — Xiaolu Guo Copy Share Image
But why people need privacy? Why privacy is important? In China, every family live together, grandparents, parents, daughter, son and their relatives too. Eat… — Xiaolu Guo Copy Share Image
“Red's world, you see, is a closed circle. Not that it matters. I know that I'm a closed circle, too, and it's all I… — Xiaolu Guo Copy Share Image
“In China we say, "You can't expect both ends of a sugar cane are as sweet." Sometimes love can be ugly. But one still… — Xiaolu Guo Copy Share Image
Self-censorship happens not only in China, or Iran or ex-Soviet places. It can happen anywhere. If an artist penetrates a certain taboo or a… — Xiaolu Guo Copy Share Image
People always say it's harder to heal a wounded heart than a wounded body. Bullshit. It's exactly the opposite—a wounded body takes much longer… — Xiaolu Guo Copy Share Image
“In China we believe "rob the rich to feed the poor." But robbers here have no poetry.” — Xiaolu Guo Copy Share Image
“In China, we say: 'There are many dreams in a long night.' It has been a long night, but I don't know if I… — Xiaolu Guo Copy Share Image
I do think there will be a better understanding between the two sides - East and West. And eventually, the so-called two sides will… — Xiaolu Guo Copy Share Image
“I am sick of speaking English like this... I am scared that I have become a person who is always very aware of talking,… — Xiaolu Guo Copy Share Image
“Heavenly Bastard in the Sky, these cockroaches were sadomasochists, looking for the most painful way to die. Once I swallowed one absent-mindedly drinking my… — Xiaolu Guo Copy Share Image
So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self- satisfied; in fact, he can easily become dangerous, as it does not take… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Every one knows that the exercise of military power is forever dangerous to civil rights; and we have had recent instances of violences that… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
We're not very dangerous animals; we don't have a horn like a rhino or quills like a porcupine. — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
In my youth-team days, I was always a left-winger who would stay close to the byline and put crosses in the box, so I… — Arjen Robben Copy Share Image
The temptations of God were always more dangerous for mankind than those of Satan. — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
When you start talking about elections being rigged, you're pushing people beyond democratic governance. And it's a very, very dangerous thing to do. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
The Patriot Act is certainly a concern; all of those things are dangerous. I think more important than me preaching is that we as… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
Die gefährlichste Weltanschauung ist die Weltanschauung derer, die die Welt nie angeschaut haben. (The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those who have… — Alexander von Humboldt Copy Share Image
The most dangerous creature here would have to be me. So maybe I'm just scared of my own shadow. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The more people that learn about you, even if you're an underdog, then you can come under fire a lot and the more attention… — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
