Afdlin Shauki Quotes & Sayings

Killing was a relatively simple matter--a blow to the head, a knife to the throat--complicated only by how much one cared about the pain or terrors animals felt in dying.... The animal also died a second death. Severed from the form in which it had lived, severed from the act that had killed it, it vanished from human memory as one of nature's creatures. — William Cronon

Antonio: Will you stay no longer? nor will you not that I go with you?
Sebastian: By your patience, no. My stars shine darkly over me; the malignancy of my fate might, perhaps, distemper yours; therefore I shall crave of you your leave that I may bear my evils alone. It were a bad recompense for your love to lay any of them on you. — William Shakespeare

I use the traditional phone noise that's built into iOS. I like an actual ringing sound. — Steve Huffman

They're all ... looking ... a little ... nervous right now — Davina McCall

Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work. — Camille Paglia

Now I've heard the phrase 'there's no such thing as an ugly baby' but that is an ugly baby! — Shawn Michaels

This silly world outside thinks it is finished with Jesus Christ but they haven't even started with Him yet. — Leonard Ravenhill

But who ever said everybody gets a happy ending? — Robert McCammon

Slurping these spirits is soul preparation, a warped communion, myself serving as god, priest, and congregation. — Mary Karr

Time, time, time, see what's become of me,
While I looked around,
For my possibilities;
I was so hard to please — Paul Simon

If one sees only unloveliness in others, it is because unloveliness is a strong element in himself. The light he throws on others is generated in his own soul and sees them as he chooses to see them. — Ernest Holmes

In considering the study of physical phenomena, not merely in its bearings on the material wants of life, but in its general influence on the intellectual advancement of mankind, we find its noblest and most important result to be a knowledge of the chain of connection, by which all natural forces are linked together, and made mutually dependent upon each other; and it is the perception of these relations that exalts our views and ennobles our enjoyments. — Alexander Von Humboldt

Here are a few of the actors who have brought my novels to TV life: Bill Pullman, Holly Hunter, Frances McDormand, Julian Sands, Gena Rowlands, Rob Lowe, Julia Ormond, Chelsea Hobbs, Tate Donovan, Anne Heche, Max Martini, Campbell Scott, Kimberly Paisley-Williams, Alexa Vega, and the late legends Richard Kiley and Kim Hunter. — Luanne Rice