Backbenchers Friends Quotes & Sayings

Life is just like a book. Only after you've read it do you know how it ends. It is when we are at the end of life that we know how our life ran. Mine, until now, has been black. As black as my skin. Black as the garbage dump where I live. — Carolina Maria De Jesus

"All is passing". When one realises this, he sits loose to this world of sorrow : This is the way of purity. — Gautama Buddha

The unconscious wants truth, as the body does. The complexity and fecundity of dreams come from the complexity and fecundity of the unconscious struggling to fulfill that desire. The complexity and fecundity of poetry come from the same struggle. — Adrienne Rich

But if you would know, I am turning aside soon. I am going to have a long talk with Bombadil: such a talk as I have not had in all my time. He is a moss-gatherer, and I have been a stone doomed to rolling. But my rolling days are ending, and now we shall have much to say to one another. — J.R.R. Tolkien

If you look at anyone who has achieved great success and wealth, people like Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, or Lance Armstrong, they have all focused intensely in order to win. — Robert Kiyosaki

You can't just jump into debauchery one night and expect to get the hang of it by morning. It takes years. — Jennifer Crusie

I suppose you could say I love outlaw American culture. — Jamaica Kincaid

Love cars, love people, love life. — Yutaka Katayama

And though age and infirmity overtake me, and I come not within sight of the castle of my dreams, teach me still to be thankful for life, and for time's olden memories that are good and sweet; and may the evening's twilight find me gentle still. — Max Ehrmann

I would love for people to know that the label 'feminist' is something that everyone should wear proudly, because it just means that you support women. — Kristen Schaal

Are you sure she's dead, because if not, I'm not entirely sure we're supposed to do this. It's against the rules."
"We're standing over a body that we caused the death of, and you're bothered about rules? — John Hennessy

Hope is the first step to healing — Shilpa Menon

Our task is to educate their (our students) whole being so they can face the future. We may not see the future, but they will and our job is to help them make something of it. — Ken Robinson

Any type of animation, it could be really super crude or very sophisticated, it doesn't mean anything if we don't make this point in this shot, this one here and this one here. There's the saying, 'One shot, one thought.' It's pretty much a true way to go. — Henry Selick

To be honest, Brazilian people are fun people, and the country is amazing. It's full of beautiful people. I love the beaches. — Helio Castroneves