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Quotes About Asia

he may also have received, or seized, tax receipts from Asia on their way to the Roman treasury
~ Anthony Everitt
Fear has disappeared. No more fear. In Asia, it is different. They've discovered again the fear and the psychology of the characters. Without psychology, the horror film doesn't exist.
~ Dario Argento
I've always had fond feelings about Asia.
~ Nicolas Anelka
You should never get away from where the real foundation of Formula One has been, which is Europe. Of course, there is nothing wrong with the expansion to countries like Asia, China, Malaysia.
~ Mario Andretti
Historically, epics are set in Africa or Asia or the Wild West, but if you make an epic today it's hard to disassociate from the contemporary realities of those places.
~ Baz Luhrmann
Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East.
~ Gore Vidal
Illegal killings of elephants are being linked to organized crime and the funding of armed militia groups. Many consumers in Asia do not realize that by buying ivory, they are playing a role in the illegal wildlife trade and its serious consequences.
~ Li Bingbing
It was one thing to contain the Soviet Union in Europe because Britain, France, and Germany were all willing to join in. But will Japan and other Asian countries be willing to join in the containment of China?
~ Samuel P. Huntington
Street stalls, be they in Korea, Thailand or anywhere else in Asia, in a covered market or simply on a street corner with a few brightly coloured plastic stools and tables, are my favourite places in the world to eat.
~ John Torode
Out of electronics school, my first assignment was to a fighter base in Florida. My roommate, Glen, would become my best friend in Florida and Thailand as we were sent to different air bases in Southeast Asia.
~ Steve Blank
If you think about the history of mobile handsets, in many respects there was a time when Asia and then Europe all led North America.
~ Stephen Elop
The circus is a global theme. It exists in all parts of the world - maybe not in Africa, but it exists in Asia in all parts. In Latin America, it's difficult to find a person who hasn't gone to the circus.
~ Fernando Botero
by a single proclamation all the Greeks inhabiting both Asia and Europe became free
~ Roderick Beaton
Pompey went on to roll up what little was left of the Seleucid kingdom of Asia three years later
~ Roderick Beaton
In the spring of 336 BCE, three of his generals led a force across the strait of the Dardanelles from Europe to Asia.
~ Roderick Beaton
A dynastic alliance with Epiros would neutralise a potential threat to his rear while he was away campaigning in Asia.
~ Roderick Beaton
Nomad horsemen from central Asia, who depended on the 'delicate grassland ecology
~ Roderick Beaton
country in southern Asia occupying the greater part of the Indian subcontinent; pop. 1,045,845,226 (est. 2002); official languages, Hindi and English (fourteen other languages are recognized as official in certain regions; of these, Bengali, Gujarati, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu have most first-language speakers); capital, New Delhi. Hindi name BHARAT.
~ Angus Stevenson
La guerra no solo forjó una identidad para los pueblos, sino que además organizó a la sociedad, dándoles a los guerreros la casta más alta. La primera nobleza, tanto en Europa como en Asia y África, fue el estamento militar. Hubo que esperar hasta la llegada del capitalismo, mucho después, para que se exaltara a la burguesía trabajadora, en un fenómeno muy ligado al crecimiento de las ciudades.
~ Santiago Gamboa
Over the last several quarters we have been growing faster in Asia and Europe than any other place on the planet. We have 18 percent of the global PC share, about 12 percent in Europe, and 8 percent in Asia.
~ Kevin Rollins
The time is coming when the pressure of population on the means of subsistence will be felt here as it is now felt in Europe and Asia. Then will the world enter upon a new stage of its history - the final competition of races, for which the Anglo-Saxon is being schooled.
~ Josiah Strong
I like 'I Can't Stand the Rain.' I like it because it has a really oriental feeling to it, an 'oriental taste,' it has an essence of Asia.
~ Lee Tae-min
Asia is the founding land of competitive gaming.
~ Michael Morhaime
The development of gaming in Asia usually serves as the marker for how their company predicts the development of gaming will go globally.
~ Michael Morhaime