Angolano Daniel Quotes & Sayings

Often we cling to habits that aren't even comforting or satisfying, simply because we are unable to let go or explore new ways to do things. — Lama Surya Das

Why should I need an artist to explain a work of art to me? Why should it not speak out to me itself? — Mahatma Gandhi

All my life's a circle; Sunrise and sundown; Moon rolls thru the nighttime; Till the daybreak comes around. — Harry Chapin

Such colourless phrases as he achieved were produced with a difficulty, a hesitancy, simulated perhaps, but decidedly effective in their unconcealed ineptness. Like most successful men, he had turned this apparent disadvantage into a powerful weapon of offense and defense, in the way that the sledge-hammer impact of his comment left, by its banality, every other speaker at a standstill, giving him as a rule complete mastery of the conversational field. A vast capacity for imposing boredom, a sense of immensely powerful stuffiness, emanated from him, sapping every drop of vitality from weaker spirits.
"So you were at school together," he said slowly. — Anthony Powell

Sometimes I forget what I put in. I want to capture things in that way, where you're looking into your memory, a dream or hallucination. The characters become a mixture of archetypes, [and] that's what I like. You're trying to figure it out and your brain wants to categorize things, but it can't because of this motion. You want to solve the problem, but it never gets solved. It's like when you read a really good book and the story never leaves you. — Ali Banisadr

There is no literature anymore, there are just single books that arrive in bookstores, just as letters, newspapers, advertising pamphlets arrive in mailboxes. — Tonu Onnepalu

Coffee isn't my cup of tea. — Samuel Goldwyn