Berpaling Muka Quotes & Sayings

I recently heard a great writer say that an essential element in the life of a writer is to have been an outsider in childhood, to have been given the "gift" of not belonging. — Elizabeth Lesser

But it is the knowledge of how contingent my unease is, how dependent on a baby that wails beneath my window one day and does not wail the next, that brings the worst shame to me, the greatest indifference to annihilation. I know somewhat too much; and from this knowledge, once one has been infected, there seems to be no recovering. I ought never to have taken my lantern to see what was going on in the hut by the granary. On the other hand, there was no way, once I had picked up the lantern, for me to put it down again. The knot loops in upon itself; I cannot find the end. — J.M. Coetzee

So much of life, so much of work, is luck. — Frank Deford

Her marble tears run down her marble face.
A stranger is someone who has no handkerchief.

Who has no words to say.

Whose shadow mind is burning
as he sits watching her hands
and thinks how rare!

to see a Roman
talk
with no gestures at all. — Anne Carson

Riches begin in the form of thought. — Napoleon Hill

Most people's lives are a direct reflection of their peer groups. — Tony Robbins

The difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull: At some point, a pit bull does stop whining. — Bill Maher

Nobody is gonna love you like you. — T.I.

We know next to nothing with any certainty about Pythagoras, except that he was not really called Pythagoras. The name by which he is known to us was probably a nickname bestowed by his followers. According to one source, it meant 'He who spoke truth like an oracle'. Rather than entrust his mathematical and philosophical ideas to paper, Pythagoras is said to have expounded them before large crowds. The world's most famous mathematician was also its first rhetorician. — Daniel Tammet

And I start to feel once more that the lines that have boxed in my life - between past and present, outside and in - are dissolving. That I may yet myself be delivered. — Garth Risk Hallberg

I don't understand how an adult can write those last two sentences and not want to kill themselves for being so despicable. — Harvey Pekar

It ain't no sin to be glad you're alive. — Bruce Springsteen

God is as real as a station wagon. — Peggy Payne