Top 494 Quotes & Sayings by Malaysian Authors - Page 4

There is so much we can do to save lives on our roads.

If you read a lot of Chinese literature, there has always been very strong women figures - warriors, swordswomen - who defended honor and loyalty with the men. So, it's not new to our culture - it's always been very much a part of it. It's good that now the Western audience would have a different image of the Chinese women.

If we keep on raking up the past, you can never work with anybody. You will always be fighting against your enemies, and that is bad.

We have had dealings with terrorists for a long time. From 1948 until 1990, we had domestic terrorism because the pro-communist groups wanted to overthrow the colonial government.

I have been presented with roles with demand not just a physical ability but mental disciplines as well. 'Memoirs of a Geisha' was not so much about physical exertion... it was much more graceful and contained than that.

It's so important for me to do my own stunts. The sense of achievement is so immense. But the studios don't want to take the risk.

I guess music is very global.

I grew up in Malaysia, and Bollywood is really big there. As a result, I've grown up watching a lot of Hindi movies.

I had an amazing teacher, who was Burmese, and she was living in Paris at the time, and she is one of very few who doesn't actually receive a credit in the film because she still has family over there.

I grew up in Singapore, and I went to Australia for law school, and after law school, I started doing stand-up comedy.

When I was younger I would go to the airport with my friends and drive out 2 A.M., 3 A.M. in the morning and just hang out until sunrise watching planes fly in and fly out. Just sit there and dream about how, one day, that's going to be us in those flights. We're gonna be one of those people with places to go.

'Places to Go' is something that I would never normally write because I would usually be worried with what people would think about me.

Whenever I am asked who I admire most among the leaders I have met, I have no hesitation in naming Nelson Mandela.

Most Americans, I think, know very little about East Asia or Southeast Asia. American businesspeople who have been here, they are very knowledgeable about this area, but the average American? No.

When you're a teenager, you could do a lot more crazy things, and your body recovers faster.

When the people perceive that the print media is reporting what they believe is correct, then they tend to read the print media and to follow news on the television.

It's our responsibility as filmmakers to tell a story that's a human drama.

My career in the movie business began in Hong Kong, my heart has always been tied to Asia, and it is immensely gratifying to see international recognition for Asian cinema as a whole.

Good leadership is to know when to go, and you only succeed as a good leader if you've transported someone else in and the company gets stronger. Then you've succeeded as leader.

I stopped eating processed sugar and carbohydrates.

Sometimes I have a melody in my head; sometimes it's just a verse. I read lines from a book or movies that I watch and grab a few quotes and start writing on paper. From there, I record a really rough version and work on the song.

'Crouching Tiger,' of course, was a very dramatic role for me, and the fighting was very serious.

I started life in a poor family and could not even afford a proper tertiary education.

I don't remember the first picture I took, but I actually found a picture of myself on a trip back to my old family home in Malaysia. I'm five years old, sitting on the floor with the family camera in my hand. It was a film camera - not a DSLR - with a fixed lens and a nice manual zoom.

I usually say something if I hear someone I know saying something I think is racist with malicious intent.

I come from a jazzy, acoustic, folky background. Everything has to work with melodies; the words have to have meaning.

There's no point in treating a currency like a commodity, devaluing it artificially and causing a lot of poverty among poor countries.

I love football now. I have a club in Sarajevo, and I love that. The fans are fantastic. The people who run the club are incredible, honest people, and they really motivate me.

I think being bi-continental is something I want to continue. Kuala Lumpur is my home, but L.A. is where I've been able to make the music that I want.

If we can increase the share of Islamic finance for the world, countries can benefit - and certainly, Malaysia can benefit from that.

When I first came to Australia, one thing that struck me was how everything closed early. Singapore is very much a 24/7 place. You can get good food any time of the day - in the middle of the night, even.

The beauty about being a producer is you sit there, and you explore ideas which become a passion, which slowly becomes a reality.

If I'm not touring, I wake up late - 10, 11 A.M. - and one of my favorite things is to go for brunch with my wife.

We all learn every day, and that's the magic about film making.

My style of comedy is probably absurdist, observational, and Olympian.

I don't like cutting my hair. I did that once, and my mum thought I was a boy.

I just love taking pictures.

Over the past months and years, divisions have opened up in Malaysian society. Now it is time for all of us, in government and beyond, to put the bitterness behind us.

My grandmother had flawless skin just from using basic skincare - an old herbal remedy in the form of a white powder and cream. I don't actually know what was in it because when you're young, you're not interested in skincare, and I didn't want to walk around the house with a white face.

Appreciate your heart; really know how to take care of your heart.

Action shouldn't just be seeing all those crashes. You can blow up a cathedral; next time you blow up the Great Wall of China, and then what? But when you're in love with your characters, the smallest action becomes an important action.

Wai Lin is the first Bond Girl who is on a par with Bond, someone who can match up with him mentally and physically. From the moment our characters see each other, there is a wariness and a recognition that this person is not who she or he seems to be.

You learn so much about yourself as an artist. I never would have thought that I could sing every night, you know? Travel and perform every single night, and travel to another city the next day and do it all over again? You learn a lot of new things about yourself, and you make a lot of connections with people.

I don't plan to go out and do action or not do action.

I've found just the right amount of balance in my life. I'm this pop artist in America, but I'm also Malaysian. And I'm also Muslim.

I grew up in a town called Subang Jaya, and made a lot of friends from around Kuala Lumpur.

It would seem the people who want to preserve the Penans' way of life are condemning them to a life full of diseases and a shorter life span.

I expect every prime minister to have his own imprint.

There is no such thing as absolute freedom of the press, not even in the most advanced countries in the world. There are things you just don't say, because it will destabilise the environment.

In Asia, we live within our means. So when we are poor, we live as poor people. I think that is a lesson that Europe can learn from Asia.

Whenever I write a new song, it always happens when I come back from Europe or Egypt or something like that. It's always from travelling.

I want girls to know that equality exists in this world. You can do anything you want.

The Arab awakening was driven by youth, organized by technology, and fired by a hunger for political change.

I kind of always struggled writing in Malay, because Malay is such a beautiful language. And it gets really hard, you know, if you want to make it into a song. You have to make it sound beautiful, use the right words.

I love Feist. I love Francoise Hardy. She was a French singer-songwriter in the '60s who was pretty huge. I think I'm drawn to her sincerity. I love Fiona Apple, too - she's quirky and really honest in her lyrics.

I believe that the director is really the soul. It is a collaborative effort, but the director is the one who needs to have that vision. It could be a great script, but it starts from there. You need to have good material, at least, but if you don't have someone with vision, it's just words.

My label understands that I am really attached to Malaysia, that I come home a lot.

People willy-nilly borrow for consumption. Civil servants willy-nilly borrow for consumption and then wonder why they don't have enough money at the end of the month.

Prostitution and corruption are two things that mankind has had to live with for so long.

You should allow professors to become really outstanding academicians, recognised worldwide, and you should reward them.