Gao Xingjian Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
What was once underground is now coming to the surface.
-
I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
-
One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
-
There are a lot of people in Congress who would never have made a great career or fortune in any other profession. But after they spend a while hanging out with the rich guys, they begin to feel they've been undervalued, and that an eventual seven-figure income as a lobbyist isn't just an opportunity, it's their due.
-
I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
-
I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.
-
I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
-
I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way - under the hoop.
-
I was famous from the age of 13, and after a while you become immune to it - in a good way. You look at positives and what you can do with it.
-
Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
-
If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.
-
My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.
-
I was not really as good as I should have been.
-
My impression of Americans from the beginning is of the best, and I have never since had cause to alter my mind. They are a kind, sympathetic race of people and naturally proud of their country.
-
I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there's some good singers on that show.
-
You can observe a lot by watching.
-
I just lost interest in performing.
-
What I love about 'Midnight Train' is that it's a song about a journey, but the music actually takes you on that journey. It feels like you're moving through the whole song.
-
I like money. You like money. We need the money. But, money is not going to bring humanity and spiritualism into your life.
-
My days of whining and complaining about others have come to an end. Nothing is easier than fault finding. All it will do is discolor my personality so that none will want to associate with me. That was my old life. No more.
-
[It is] useful to know the laws of nature - for that enables us to obey them. To act otherwise would be to rise in revolt against heaven.
-
I'm an expert cook when it comes to preparing the quail, ducks, geese and wild turkeys that I hunt on the farm.
-
Life is fragile, yet to obstinately struggle is natural.
