“You know, the Chinese have forgotten more about sailing than the rest of the world ever knew.”

Annie Proulx

Annie Proulx - “You know, the Chinese have forgotten...” 1

Similar quotes

“i've forgotten more than you'll ever know”

Bob Dylan
Read more

“I don't know about the rest of the country but in New York more people have learned anonymity from rent control than ever discovered it in a twelve-step program.”

Lawrence Block
Read more

“Have you come over time to think that you know more now than you did when you were young, know less now than when young, know now there is so much more to know than you knew there was to know when young that it is moot whether you think you knew more then than now or less, or do you now know that you never knew anything at all and never will and only the bluster of youth persuaded you that you did or would?”

Padgett Powell
Read more

“More than any woman I ever knew, she comforted.' -Mrs. Huxley about Emma”

Deborah Heiligman
Read more

“Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.”

Omar N. Bradley
Read more