Evelyn Lau quote: "In your thirties, your life is so completely different, it's almost impossible to reconcile who you are with who you were as a teenager, ... Even if I wanted to represent that time in my life,I couldn't. It's amazing how much changes. You're more interested in stability, in being tied to normal problems everybody else has, not the chaos that in your younger life you fall into."

Where did feelings go when they disappeared? Did they leave a chemical trace somewhere in our minds,...
EVELYN LAU

Now your words fill the air / with a storm of black stings / And I make a small incision in my skin ...
EVELYN LAU

In my twenties, it was so important for me to show people I had all these other books and these othe...
EVELYN LAU

Now I do bowling, golf, and tennis. I want to be a good bowler.
ANDY LAU

You know, if I tell the press that I like long blonde hair, the next day there will be girls with lo...
ANDY LAU

For example, in Malay, there are pronunciations that are similar to Chinese.
ANDY LAU

Don't wait. If it's not right, move on.
ANDY LAU

Before you do anything, you need to know if it's right or wrong.
ANDY LAU

Actually, I look the same in real life as I do in the movies.
ANDY LAU

I'm not scared. I think it is a once-and-for-all measure to discourage people from illegal downloadi...
ANDY LAU

Say Once More I Love You
ANDY LAU

He said if the stars can work together, we won't lose to any Asian movies or even foreign films,
ANDY LAU

[The undergrads were excited that they could ask Andy questions. When asked:] Facing his current sta...
ANDY LAU

I want to find a good script to work with Maggie Cheung on because she touched me more than 10 years...
ANDY LAU

I am classified as an idol in Hong Kong and in Asia.
ANDY LAU

So many people ask me, 'Do you like 'Departed?' I say, '50/50.'
ANDREW LAU

We need to look to the future. You can't come up with new things unless you constantly forget th...
ANDREW LAU

Unfortunately, I don't have much free time.
ANDY LAU

I don't want to repeat myself. I don't want to shoot 10 installments of 'Infernal Affair...
ANDREW LAU

The issue I will highlight is the chemicals in cigarette smoking that can lead to the changes in the...
ALAN LAU

Uncontrolled cell growth is the hallmark of cancer.
ALAN LAU

There has been incredible development in molecular oncology.
ALAN LAU

You can call it a farce; it's not an election in the way you know it, but that's Hong Kong, it's ver...
EMILY LAU

Our blocking tonight was awesome. We were everywhere it seemed.
ANNA LAU

It's amazing. It feels like last year, only better. Everyone is clicking and working together as a t...
ANNA LAU

It's critical that (Apple) tie up capacity. They need to secure a reliable source to fund their cont...
JOHN LAU

I am upbeat about the Yuanmeng series, because it helps Lenovo gain more market share and hence lets...
HELEN LAU

We're seeing across the board buying after tame employment data out of the U.S., which is reducing p...
HERBERT LAU

China Telecom reflects market sentiment, ... A lot of foreign brokerages have issued pessimistic out...
HERBERT LAU

Love is not a noun, it is not a person, place, thing or idea, but instead love is a verb, it is an a...
JAMES LAU

We have a strong policy of everybody getting along and everybody pulling together. We don't let peop...
CONNIE LAU

Nobody should hit .200. Anybody should hit .250
CHARLIE LAU

There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them works.
CHARLIE LAU

Everyone wants to be number one,
HELEN LAU

Matters have got to a terrible state in a very quick time.
EDWIN LAU

It should be the responsibility of every polluter to make amends and pay compensation for the pollut...
EDWIN LAU

We call on environmental protection authorities to tighten procedures and check vessels more regular...
EDWIN LAU

This has tarnished the image of Hong Kong shipping.
EDWIN LAU

That was really bad. Mr. Zhang had said we could have an honest dialogue, but when we raised the iss...
EMILY LAU

I wonder why this figure wasn't released along with the others last week. They should tell us (what ...
EMILY LAU

The first of July is the first day of Chinese rule and the signal they're sending to the outside wor...
EMILY LAU

What he's saying now is, wait, we've got to consult Beijing. We don't even know what the basic law m...
EMILY LAU

We have demonstrated to Hong Kong and to the rest of China, if people are allowed to get the news, w...
EMILY LAU

They support democracy, and the pro-democracy candidates have scored a resounding victory. I certain...
EMILY LAU

I think the people have spoken very loudly and clearly,
EMILY LAU

It's a powerful way for people to know that we have not forgotten. It's reassuring to see so many pe...
EMILY LAU

They would like to have the tools with which they can hit the people and shut the people up, and I t...
EMILY LAU

I always said that when you're balancing your life, the kids are not part of that balance ... once y...
CONNIE LAU

I would say, quite the opposite. But I was really privileged in that I had a wonderful family. They ...
CONNIE LAU

As we enter the reporting season for major blue chips, we're more biased towards the upside. In the ...
JOSEPH LAU

We are pleased to finally reach an agreement on major remedies to deal with major water pollution pr...
LAURENCE LAU

The market would have expected a placement at a bigger discount.
HERBERT LAU

The market is basically quite quiet. There's some profit-taking after yesterday's surge but overall ...
HERBERT LAU

I expect the index to move sideways today as there's a bit of profit taking.
HERBERT LAU

The market's doing pretty well. We've had some good figures out of the U.S. and futures were very st...
HERBERT LAU

Shares are not doing too well across the board this morning,
HERBERT LAU

We're seeing some profit-taking of blue chips after Friday's gains but generally the market is very ...
HERBERT LAU

The market fell 5 percent last week so it should stabilize a bit, but tech stocks are still weak.
HERBERT LAU

People are switching to utilities because there is a lot of uncertainty in the market about how deep...
HERBERT LAU

Some investors are staying at the sidelines as uncertainties linger over whether the Fed would surpr...
HERBERT LAU

A high proportion of contract sales can shield the company from declining spot coal prices.
HELEN LAU

I don't think these low-income people are ready to adopt this purchasing style yet, ... It's differe...
HELEN LAU

We're calling for another wet round of showers moving in the start of the new work week late Sunday ...
HENRY LAU

This is wild. I've never experienced this kind of weather event or episode.
HENRY LAU

We're paying close attention to the sensitive side in the Windward area. There's a possibility of is...
HENRY LAU

This is about respect for our culture. The New Year is the most important festival in our culture, a...
HENRY LAU

We want to give people information, advice, but at this point I don't want to be alarmist about it e...
LAURENCE LAU

We're issuing this brown water advisory as a precaution because heavy rains are going to wash whatev...
LAURENCE LAU

We still feel it's important to have them pay a penalty for the past violations.
LAURENCE LAU

They're building a large burn or wall at the bottom of the landfill to make sure the waste stays in ...
LAURENCE LAU

You want to keep garbage covered so rats, flies, other insects and disease vectors can't get in ther...
LAURENCE LAU

The department sees these as serious violations, which warrants large penalties.
LAURENCE LAU

Any application involving that facility will probably take a lot of time to process. It's a big job.
LAURENCE LAU

Fortunately we've never had a sewage spill so big, so we don't really have experience to predict wit...
LAWRENCE LAU

I didn't get the call about the city results until 4:30 in the afternoon. So one of the problems we ...
LAWRENCE LAU

We will look at how things have got to that point.
LAWRENCE LAU

He may have been transferring waste without a solid waste permit.
LAWRENCE LAU

You see there are more and more cars in China. That is going to make the country more reliant on oil...
LAWRENCE LAU

Stay under the radar and you'll outlast all those who strive to be recognized."
-Ver...
LAU-TZU

Nobody should hit .200. Anybody should hit .250.
CHARLEY LAU

There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them works.
CHARLEY LAU

People are on the sidelines as some investors are cautious of the market's volatility right now.
JOSEPH LAU

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will d...
EVELYN WAUGH

Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
EVELYN WAUGH

Holidays are about experiences and people, and tuning into what you feel like doing at that moment. ...
EVELYN GLENNIE

I got to star in my own movies. I even had my name above the title in some cases. But what am I know...
EVELYN KEYES

I'm the first to admit that I never achieved my potential as an actress.
EVELYN KEYES

I was always interested in the man of the moment - and there were so many such moments.
EVELYN KEYES

I have often wondered what my life would have been like if I had needed a size thirty-eight bra inst...
EVELYN KEYES

I was always looking for the same man - a strong father figure.
EVELYN KEYES

I was the original Cinderella girl, looking for the happy ending in the fairy story. But my fantasy ...
EVELYN KEYES

Make-up is the last thing to enhance your beauty, but it's very important because it builds up y...
EVELYN LAUDER

My favorite instrument is the snare drum. In Scotland, the snare drum is very prominent in Highland ...
EVELYN GLENNIE

Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'.
EVELYN WAUGH

If politicians and scientist were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
EVELYN WAUGH

If there is a symbol of our age, perhaps it is something that every factory worker does each day of ...
EVELYN UNDERHILL

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die
EVELYN WAUGH

Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints.
EVELYN UNDERHILL

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
EVELYN WAUGH

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.
EVELYN WAUGH

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go floppin...
EVELYN WAUGH

That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down.
EVELYN WAUGH

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the ...
EVELYN WAUGH

A belief which does not spring from a conviction in the emotions is no belief at all.
EVELYN SCOTT

Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.
JOHN EVELYN

If the Christian penitent dares to ask that his many departures from the Christian norm, his impatie...
EVELYN UNDERHILL

Commemoration of Gladys Aylward, Missionary in China, 1970 Two movements merge in the real act of...
EVELYN UNDERHILL

"Books," said St. Augustine after his conversion, "could not teach me charity." We still keep on thi...
EVELYN UNDERHILL

The offertory is the first essential action of the Liturgy, because in it we make the costly and sol...
EVELYN UNDERHILL

Feast of Benedict of Nursia, Father of Western Monasticism, c.550 Christian history looks gloriou...
EVELYN UNDERHILL

Feast of Evelyn Underhill, Mystical Writer, 1941 Christianity is a religion which concerns us as ...
EVELYN UNDERHILL

Feast of Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury, 605 You can also offer your prayers, obedienc...
EVELYN UNDERHILL

The purifying worth of prayer consists in the increasing contrast which it sets up between the holy ...
EVELYN UNDERHILL

There is no need for peculiar conditions in order to grow in the spiritual life, for the pressure of...
EVELYN UNDERHILL

Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660 Words are ...
EVELYN UNDERHILL

Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373 Faith is not a refuge from reality. ...
EVELYN UNDERHILL

Feast of Evelyn Underhill, Mystical Writer, 1941 Those who complain that they make no progress in...
EVELYN UNDERHILL

Those who complain that they make no progress in the life of prayer because they "cannot meditate" s...
EVELYN UNDERHILL

Commemoration of Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking, 675 This, of course, is what religion is about: t...
EVELYN UNDERHILL

Feast of Evelyn Underhill, Mystical Writer, 1941 Anyone can lead a "prayer-life" -- that is, the...
EVELYN UNDERHILL

Feast of Philip & James, Apostles I come in the little things, Saith the Lord: Not borne on morn...
EVELYN UNDERHILL

As to deliberate mortifications -- I take it you do feel satisfied that you accept fully those God s...
EVELYN UNDERHILL

As the genuine religious impulse becomes dominant, adoration more and more takes charge. "I come to ...
EVELYN UNDERHILL

Feast of James the Apostle The spiritual life is a stern choice. It is not a consoling retreat from ...
EVELYN UNDERHILL

Feast of Philip & James, Apostles If we do not at least try to manifest something of Creative Ch...
EVELYN UNDERHILL

Commemoration of Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, Apostle of the Franks, 533 Commemoration of Thé...
EVELYN UNDERHILL

When we look out towards this love that moves the stars and stirs in the child's heart and claims ou...
EVELYN UNDERHILL

Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, Founder of the Little Gidding Community, 1637 Many a co...
EVELYN UNDERHILL

This wide and generous spirit of love, not the religious egotist's longing to get away from the worl...
EVELYN UNDERHILL

His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for we...
EVELYN WAUGH

Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
EVELYN WAUGH

News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he'...
EVELYN WAUGH

Long-range planning works best in the short term
DOUG EVELYN

Don't give your opinions about Art and the Purpose of Life. They are of little interest and, anyway,...
EVELYN WAUGH

Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiogra...
EVELYN WAUGH

If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outs...
EVELYN WAUGH

Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
EVELYN WAUGH

You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I wou...
EVELYN WAUGH

The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent ...
EVELYN WAUGH

Other nations use force; we Britons alone use Might.
EVELYN WAUGH

If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to a semi-official s...
EVELYN WAUGH

Saints are simply men and women who have fulfilled their natural obligation which is to approach God...
EVELYN WAUGH

Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It...
EVELYN WAUGH

It is a curious thing that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable fo...
EVELYN WAUGH

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.
EVELYN ASHFORD

Have you ever noticed that Jesus is never recorded as taking a holiday? He retired for the purposes ...
EVELYN UNDERHILL

I can feel the wind go by when I run. It feels good. It feels fast.
EVELYN ASHFORD

In the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. It used to be the classics, now it's ly...
EVELYN WAUGH

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
EVELYN WAUGH

Long-range planning works best in the short term.
DOUG EVELYN

I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one d...
EVELYN WAUGH

All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty: for beauty i...
EVELYN UNDERHILL

Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pande...
EVELYN UNDERHILL

Adoration is caring for God above all else.
EVELYN UNDERHILL

Once you're in a particular country, and you're surrounded by musicians who are so adept at ...
EVELYN GLENNIE

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.
EVELYN UNDERHILL

One of the most important things about looking youthful is to have a modern haircut.
EVELYN LAUDER

News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news u...
EVELYN WAUGH

There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a bene...
EVELYN WAUGH

And as I grew older, I then auditioned for the Royal Academy of Music in London, and they said, well...
EVELYN GLENNIE

Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assump...
EVELYN GLENNIE

If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloy...
EVELYN WAUGH

Knowing how to age and not being afraid of aging is very healthy.
EVELYN LAUDER

I can't run forever. I decided to go back to school for my degree, because I know now there'...
EVELYN ASHFORD

I keep up with everything in terms of health, fitness, nutrition, skin care, hair, nails. Really, ev...
EVELYN LAUDER

Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy cravi...
EVELYN WAUGH

Try to arrange things so that you can have a reasonable bit of quiet every day.
EVELYN UNDERHILL

My first real foreign holiday was my honeymoon 20 years ago, and we went to Bali. It was particularl...
EVELYN GLENNIE

I am really quite fascinated by echo-locating bats and dolphins and have always wondered how sound a...
EVELYN GLENNIE

I suppose I don't hear things, but I listen, if you know what I mean. And there is a big differe...
EVELYN GLENNIE

The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a ce...
EVELYN WAUGH

To become a big movie star like Joan Crawford, you need to wear blinders and pay single-minded atten...
EVELYN KEYES

I do not believe the expenditure of $2.50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendsh...
EVELYN WAUGH

Of children as of procreation - the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable...
EVELYN WAUGH

It is a curious thing ... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitabl...
EVELYN WAUGH

Punctuality is the art of guessing how late the other fellow is going to be
EVELYN WAUGH

Before my teen years, I was losing my hearing pretty quickly, and I was getting very, very angry. I ...
EVELYN GLENNIE

The gratification of helping others is a very American tradition and a Judeo-Christian tradition. No...
EVELYN LAUDER

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.
EVELYN WAUGH

We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.
EVELYN WAUGH

I want to be able to say on my deathbed that I reached a few people. That would be very nice, just t...
EVELYN GLENNIE

She was a diamond in a quarry full of quartz.
EVELYN SKYE

Imagine, and it shall be.
There are no limits.⁠⁠⁠⁠
EVELYN SKYE

Color is a big part of what I do. It's like music. There are only so many notes in the scale, bu...
EVELYN LAUDER

To have one's individuality completely ignored is like being pushed quite out of life--like being bl...
EVELYN SCOTT

Marriage is like a phone call in the night: first the ring, and then you wake up.
EVELYN HENDRICKSON

All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.
EVELYN WAUGH

What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?
EVELYN WAUGH

It is a curious thing that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable ...
EVELYN WAUGH

Women are the only oppressed group in our society that lives in intimate association with their opre...
EVELYN CUNNINGHAM

And so we take a holiday, a vacation, to gain release from this bondage for a space, to stand back f...
EVELYN UNDERHILL

I am a first generation immigrant and a woman, but I don't really write about that because I feel li...
EVELYN RODRIGUEZ

I believe our longing for an innate harmony runs deeper than our longing for righteousness.
EVELYN RODRIGUEZ

It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable...
EVELYN WAUGH

After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritat...
EVELYN UNDERHILL

What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
EVELYN WAUGH

Percussion is the most adaptable family of instruments. The biggest challenge is to project percussi...
EVELYN GLENNIE

There's sound everywhere—we just have to listen.
EVELYN GLENNIE

My whole life is about sound. It's what makes me tick as a human being.
EVELYN GLENNIE

Hearing is a form of touch. You feel it through your body, and sometimes it almost hits your face.
EVELYN GLENNIE

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