Chinese Quote by Yiyun Li Download Open image “I would never describe a cloud as 'fluffy'—in Chinese or in English.” — Yiyun Li ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Chinese Clouds Fluffy Inspirational
The cloud represents the creative power of the mind, which can assume any imaginable form. It is the ideal medium of creation for the… — Anagarika Govinda Copy Share Image
A cloud is made of billows upon billows upon billows that look like clouds. As you come closer to a cloud you don't get… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
I'd have to be really quick to describe clouds - a split second's enough for them to start being something else. — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
If we as a society do not understand 'the cloud,' in all its aspects - what data it holds, how it works, what the… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
Clouds are no deterrent. Clouds intensify the drama, trap and shape the light. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Clouds do not really look like camels or sailing ships or castles in the sky. They are simply a natural process at work. So… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“Today’s so-called cloud isn’t really a cloud at all. It’s a bunch of corporate dirigibles painted to look like clouds. You can tell they’re… — Peter Lucas Copy Share Image
“I am not and autobiographical writer--one can't be without a solid and explicable self--and read all autobiographical writers with the same curiosity. What kind… — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
One easy mistake to make with the first novel is to expand the short story. Some things are better as a story; you cannot… — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
“sometimes Moran wondered if her chief merit was her willingness to serve as a human receptacle for details. Sympathy and admiration and surprise she… — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
I always tell my students to go back after a hundred pages and rewrite from the beginning. It's really harder if you've already finished… — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
She wonders if this is what people call falling in love, the desire to be with someone for every minute of the rest of… — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
Some people in China don't look at freedom of speech as an abstract ideal, but more as a means to an end. — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
“It saddened her that Luo insisted on holding on to her as if they had started to share some vital organs during their twenty… — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
To write about a struggle amidst the struggling: one must hope that the muddling will end someday. — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
What is revolution except a systematic way for one species to eat another alive? — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
“His mother had always been a headstrong woman, and with her grayish-white mane and unsmiling face, she appeared as regal and intimidating as she… — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
In China, your freedom is always limited, but this limitation applies to almost everyone. If someone does injustice to you, though, you have to… — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery.… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
If China someday gains a more fair, just, and accountable system of government, it will be due to the hard work and efforts of… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the faces at… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Remember, sex is like a Chinese dinner. It ain't over 'til you both get your cookie. — Alec Baldwin Copy Share Image
He sank into the rocking chair, the same one in which Rebecca had sat during the early days of the house to give embroidery… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
The Pink Panther wasn't shown to the press for reasons that soon became apparent when I saw it at a public performance. Two people… — Philip French Copy Share Image
The Chinese describe themselves as political refugees. Many base that claim on China's strict population laws, which allow them to have only one child.… — Ed Koch Copy Share Image
One thing that really interests me is-and it comes out of Chinese and Japanese painting-where you have a number of different kinds of space… — Mary Heilmann Copy Share Image
My Chinese zodiac is a dog. But I'm an exception because of how much I love cats. — Jason Wu Copy Share Image
