Oriental Quotes
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Oriental Quotes & Sayings
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The usual for me. The usual was a strong infusion of different kinds of Oriental teas, which raised her spirits after her siesta.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
In London, I really like going to the Mandarin Oriental. They can even do my feet without tickling me.
— Lara Stone
Europe has always owed to oriental genius its divine impulses. What these holy bards said, all sane men found agreeable and true.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It will be like a story from the Arabian Nights," he said. "Only an Oriental could have planned it. It does not belong to London fogs.
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
The old Oriental shamans had a much different view when they recalled the movements of kung fu.
— Lujan Matus
Every day and in every way, baseball gets fancier. A few more years and they'll be playing on oriental rugs.
— Russell Baker
I was studying acting in New York, and wasn't being hired by anyone to do anything other than to work in an Oriental rug warehouse.
— Thomas F. Wilson
Robert calmly, like an Oriental sage himself, treated the situation as if it were a koan, a riddle to be entered until its very assumptions shifted.
— Mark Nepo
If you review the commercial history, you will discover anyone who controls oriental trade will get hold of global wealth.
— James J. Hill
The small men and women with the upslanted eyes looked at his caked forehead and bloody jacket sleeve with unsettling Oriental blandness.
— Stephen King
If you take an Oriental person and spin him around several times, does he become disoriented?
— Steven Wright
There's an Oriental saying I like: If aggression meets empty space it tends to defeat itself.
— Matthew Reilly
Oriental marionette imitating an occidental gesture.
— Joe Haldeman
Like a stripped and lifeless trunk the Oriental church produces no theologians, thinkers, or savants.
— Emilia Pardo Bazan
Wang-mu was surprised to hear Peter sound so oriental. The American way was to make excuses, to stay and argue.
— Orson Scott Card
We built everything - toilets included. I think those islands in the middle of nowhere are quite poetic. It's kind of an Oriental Atlantis.
— Karl Lagerfeld
I mean, in general, the danger is from Oriental faiths and Islam.
— Vladimir Zhirinovsky
Tai chi does not mean oriental wisdom or something exotic. It is the wisdom of your own senses, your own mind and body together as one process.
— Chungliang Al Huang
China has no desire to replace Western imperialism in Asia with an Oriental imperialism or isolationism of its own or anyone else.
— Chiang Kai-shek
Faulkner was almost oriental. I never got into Faulkner.
— Tom T. Hall
Did you ever hear the Oriental proverb, "The dogs bark but the caravan passes on"? Let them bark, Scarlett. I fear nothing will stop your caravan.
— Margaret Mitchell
moaned his final breath into the imitation Oriental.
— Dennis Lehane
Call me tacky, but I love the union of sweet and sour, even in some now-unloved Oriental dishes incorporating pineapple and ketchup.
— Yotam Ottolenghi
Egypt restored to prosperity, regenerated by wise and enlightened administration ... would shed its civilizing rays upon all its Oriental neighbors.
— Edward W. Said
The flower is a jumble of thighs, the sun's harem - the most oriental thing imaginable.
— Malcolm De Chazal
Science, as a rule beneficent, has given birth to potentialities of crime which exceed the dreams of oriental romance.
— Robert Barr
Marvelous oriental pace he's got, just like a Buddhist statue.
— Harry Carpenter
If I, as an Oriental have to worship Jesus of Nazareth, there is only one way, that is, to worship him as God and nothing else.
— Swami Vivekananda
That the women of the Old Testament were dressed with oriental richness there is no doubt, nor are they censured for so arraying themselves.
— Charlotte Mary Yonge
The only thing Oriental about me is my face,
— Soong May-ling