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The only thing Oriental about me is my face, -- Soong May-ling
I'm telling you, the Oriental people, they're slowly taking over. -- Rob Ford
I mean, in general, the danger is from Oriental faiths and Islam. -- Vladimir Zhirinovsky
My American walking shoes are new, and my Oriental eyes are old. -- Ameen Rihani
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
In London, I really like going to the Mandarin Oriental. They can even do my feet without tickling me. -- Lara Stone
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
I'm the kind of person who would have liked to have lived at the Plaza. I love crystal chandeliers and gold leaf, velvets and mirrors, Oriental rugs and marble. -- Candace Bushnell
So all that is said of the wise man by Stoic or Oriental or modern essayist, describes to each reader his own idea, describes his unattained but attainable self. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
O Sun, great Oriental, my proud mind's golden cap, I love to wear you cocked askew, to play and burst in song throughout our lives, and so rejoice our hearts. -- Nikos Kazantzakis
Bolshevism may be Marxian in theory, but it is Hulagoesque in practice. It may be of European descent, but it is Oriental in tradition. Oriental in mood. Oriental in temperament. -- Ameen Rihani
It will be a sad day for the world when the Oriental gent realizes that Western bumbling is only Eastern guile in a different idiom. Well, a lot of it, anyway. -- Kyril Bonfiglioli
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It is one thing to teach a dynamic Oriental philosophy and religious code; it is quite another to put such a discipline to the test by successfully living it in the face of ridicule. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
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[Alan] Watts did two main things for me. He opened up the connections between what I was doing and the traditional Oriental philosophies. And he pointed me toward the distinction between Self and Mind. -- Werner Erhard
I don't know if you know it, J.B., but you're the sort of fellow who causes hundreds to fall under suspicion when he's found stabbed in his library with a paper-knife of Oriental design. -- P. G. Wodehouse
For 35 years, Frank Cross held one of the most prestigious chairs in academia: the Hancock Professor of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages at Harvard University. I believe that's the third oldest university chair in the country. -- Hershel Shanks
The Persians are called the French of the East; we will call the Arabs Oriental Italians. A gifted noble people; a people of wildstrong feelings, and of iron restraint over these: the characteristic of noblemindedness, of genius. -- Thomas Carlyle
Love sometimes elevates, creates new qualities, suspends the working of evil inclinations; but only for a day. Love, then, is an Oriental despot, whose glance lifts a slave from the dust, and then consigns him to it again. -- Sophie Swetchine
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. But it does have to be furnished with things that mean something to you. -- James M. Cain
Those in the West who have adopted Christ as their own should remember that he was an Oriental. Love and sympathy for Jesus should be expanded into love and sympathy for all Orientals, and for all the world. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
I had a teacher's degree and a degree in Oriental Philosophy from the University of Massachusetts. I thought I was going to India to study but all of a sudden, I had a career in music. It really surprised me. -- Buffy Sainte-Marie
In Botswana in the Kalahari Desert there's a tented camp called Jack's Camp, which is like old Africa meets Ralph Lauren. The Oriental rugs, the old leather chairs - you feel like you've just jumped out of a Ralph Lauren ad. -- Mark Burnett
The problem of what to wear while lolling about the house on a Sunday afternoon is becoming more and more acute as the fashions in lolling garments change. The American home is in danger of taking on the appearance of an Oriental bordello. -- Robert Benchley
What is particularly intriguing, in fact, is that whereas many peoples tend to locate this experience (of the sacred) in certain unusual, if not 'supernatural' moments and circumstances . . . the Oriental focus is upon mystery in the most obvious, ordinary, mundane-the most natural-situations of life. -- Conrad Hyers
Behold the difference between the Oriental and the Occidental. The former has nothing to do in this world; the latter is full of activity. The one looks in the sun until his eyes are put out; the other follows him prone in his westward course. -- Henry David Thoreau
Apart from the most obvious cases, like the Oriental Bittersweet vine, escaped from private gardens and smothering the mountains one acre at a time, the most painful proof of man's destruction is not what you can see right in front of you; it's what you will never see again. -- Wil S. Hylton
Faulkner was almost oriental. I never got into Faulkner. -- Tom T. Hall
The world today needs both western thinking and oriental vision. -- Li Keqiang
The flower is a jumble of thighs, the sun's harem - the most oriental thing imaginable. -- Malcolm de Chazal
If you review the commercial history, you will discover anyone who controls oriental trade will get hold of global wealth. -- James J. Hill
Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny. -- David Hockney
It is clear that this essential Christian doctrine gives a new value to human nature, to human history and to human life which is not to be found in the other great oriental religions. -- Christopher Dawson
The rise of anime had to happen. If the Japanese could tell better American stories, it would go through the roof. They still tell stories which are very much oriental. I take my hat off to them. -- Ralph Bakshi
My flat is a bit like an oriental bazaar. It's filled with the oddest objects from all my travels, and you can't really move in it. I love collecting antiques and often spend weekends driving around bric-a-brac markets. -- Mark Shand
The one thing that you simply have to remember all the time that you are there, is that Hollywood is an oriental city. As long as you do that you might survive. If you try to equate it with anything else you'll perish. -- Olivia De Havilland
True, when you behold Damascus from the Salahiyeh, the last slope of the Anti-Lebanon, it is the realization of all that you have dreamed of Oriental splendor; the world has no picture more dazzling. It is Beauty carried to the Sublime, as I have felt when overlooking some boundless forest of palms within the tropics. -- Bayard Taylor
Marvelous oriental pace he's got, just like a Buddhist statue. -- Harry Carpenter
It's the same mysterious exotic oriental fragrance as what the Beatles get off on. -- Frank Zappa
Guardians of glory bless the rage of the raqs... in the ambiance that beats with drums of oriental stories. -- Shah Asad Rizvi
Every day and in every way, baseball gets fancier. A few more years and they'll be playing on oriental rugs. -- Russell Baker
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
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
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
First of all you must understand that practising martial arts means studying a certain oriental philosophy of life, otherwise it's merely a vacuous sport devoid of any significance. -- William C. Brown
HYENA, n. A beast held in reverence by some oriental nations from its habit of frequenting at night the burial-places of the dead. But the medical student does that -- Ambrose Bierce

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