Oriental Quotes

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

Art, Sometimes, Knew

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

Old, Africa, Desert

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

Love, Person, Lived

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

Life, Nature, Great

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

Happen, Through, Tell

Faulkner was almost oriental. I never got into Faulkner.
Tom T. Hall

Almost, Faulkner

The flower is a jumble of thighs, the sun's harem - the most oriental thing imaginable.
Malcolm De Chazal

Sun, Flower, Imaginable

I mean, in general, the danger is from Oriental faiths and Islam.
Vladimir Zhirinovsky

Islam, Mean, General

Their chief residence was Bagdad, where they remained until the eleventh century, an age fatal in Oriental history, from the disasters of which the Princes of the Captivity were not exempt.
Isaac D'Israeli

Age, History, Until

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

Time, Long, Remember

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 Wilson

Work, Acting, Anyone

If you review the commercial history, you will discover anyone who controls oriental trade will get hold of global wealth.
James J. Hill

History, Anyone, Wealth

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