Bulathsinhala Pradeshiya Quotes & Sayings

I want to get under the surface. When I work with a leaf, rock, stick, it is not just that material in itself, it is an opening into the processes of life within and around it. When I leave it, these processes continue. — Andy Goldsworthy

Maybe he was worried that I would get thinner and thinner, until I became as unfindable as my mother, and I felt a stab of compassion for him, imagining my father alone in this house with the white shadows of his two invisible women. — Laura Kasischke

Peace is the foundation of Happiness-for where there is Anxiety,Tension,and Turmoil,Joy cannot exist.-RVM — R.v.m.

A myth is a hypothesis about the personality of reality itself and not the personalities of individual persons, character types, or nations. — Robert Bringhurst

History - the lamp which illumines national character ... — Lawrence Durrell

When good people take you in and treat you good, you ought to try to be good back. — Toni Morrison

Did the queen offer to let you bring another friend?"
"She did," admitted Lissa. "In particular, she suggested Adrian. But he's sulking ... and I'm not really sure I'm in the mood for him."
Christian seemed pleased by this. "Then bring me."
My poor friends. I wasn't sure how much more shock any of them could handle today.
"Why the hell would I bring you?" She exclaimed. All her anger returned at his presumption. It was a sign of her agitation that she'd sworn.
"Because," he said, face calm, "I can teach you how to stake a Strigoi. — Richelle Mead

Reading is not as insignificant as we claim. First we must steal the key to the library. Reading is a provocation, a rebellion: we open the book's door, pretending it is a simple paperback cover, and in broad daylight escape! We are no longer there: this is what real reading is. If we haven't left the room, if we haven't gone over the wall, we're not reading. — Helene Cixous

None of it was ever easy, but that wasn't the point. I had never asked writing to be easy; I had only asked writing to be interesting. And it was always interesting to me. — Elizabeth Gilbert

He who lives by the sword, dies by the sword. (Unless the other guy has a gun!) — Quentin R. Bufogle

When programs, methods, and money produce impressive results, there is an inclination to confuse human success with divine blessing. Christians can actually behave like practical humanists, living as if God were not necessary. When that happens, passionate longing for God and yearning for His help will be missing - along with His empowerment. — John F. MacArthur Jr.

No matter how much you want to be self-sufficient and alone, there is a natural human impulse to need something more than that. — Jonathan E. Steinberg

The infinite possibilities. That's what used to do my nut in. — Damien Hirst

This was the house that Paula had taken me and two other graduate students to years earlier. She had told us to go out on the deck, look at the view of the Atlantic Ocean, and say to ourselves, This is what playwriting can buy. Now, — Sarah Ruhl

I had to beat him up in front of everybody for threatening me. — David Haye