Akulah Sang Prabu Quotes & Sayings

You should not translate for more than two hours at a time. After that, you lose your edge, the language becomes clumsy, rigid. — Tom Stoppard

But whatever, we descendants of the Girl Line may not have wealth and proper windows in our drafty homes but at least we have rage and we will build empires with that, gentlemen. — Miriam Toews

Democrats are making it clear that they intend to use our economic crisis to rush through their longtime liberal goals without public scrutiny or debate ... This will increase burdens on taxpayers and take a significant step toward socialized medicine. — Jim DeMint

I find that the great artists I've met are people who are so playfully invested in their process that, even if it doesn't come out the way they like, they still power through and even take energy from it. — George Saunders

This sort of behavior is left to the psychotic, dogmatic, fundamentalist believers you see on your TV everyday letting off bombs and killing people in the name of God. Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning. A non-functioning mind is clinically dead. Believe in nothing. — Maynard James Keenan

I don't really care what it is," he said, "because after everything that's happened in my life, I get to crawl into bed with you every night. — Nicole Williams

What prompted me to make these pictures [of bomb-cratered roads] was the impression that the ground was ripped by the shock, that it was swallowing itself. — Sophie Ristelhueber

I think of how life takes unexpected twists and turns, sometimes through sheer happenstance, sometimes through calculated decisions. In the end, it can all be called fate, but to me, it is more a matter of faith. — Emily Giffin

These examples of the lack of simplicity in English and French, all appearances to the contrary, could be multiplied almost without limit and apply to all national languages. — Edward Sapir

Falling in love slowly is like awakening one morning to find that the sun has risen in the west. — Kim Wright

Early poems are a thing it takes years to live down. — Angela Thirkell

I've always wanted to write movies - I always used to tell my mom that I wanted to be a director. — R. Kelly

I hope some future day will bring me the happiness of seeing my family again collected under our own roof, happy in ourselves and blessed in each other. — Abigail Adams