Camileri Quotes & Sayings

She followed the pleasure where it led. She had no weight, no name, no thoughts, no history. Then came a burst of phosphorescence, as though a firework had discharged behind her eyes, and it was over. She felt quiet and warm. For the first conscious moment of her life, her mind was free from wonder, free from worry, free from work or puzzlement. Then, from the middle of that marvelous furred stillness, a thought took shape, took hold, took over. I shall have to do this again. — Elizabeth Gilbert

I take friendship very seriously. — Wole Soyinka

It took a lot of guts to change it and say 'I don't like the life that I'm living and I don't like the swimmer I am', so let's change it completely and say 'Look, I've got to learn to love myself'. And that's been a really hard thing to do because when you've done a performance that you're not proud of and the public and the media have criticized you ... people are really quick to make judgements so it was tough to say 'Well I don't care what you have to say. I'm going to do this for myself and if you don't like me after this, well then, it's too bad'. — Leisel Jones

Humans hunt and kill maneaters.
What if animals hunted animal eaters?! — Manoj Vaz

Contemplative simplicity isn't a matter of circumstances; it's a matter of focus. — Ann Voskamp

The impact of all this persistent inequity on the economic (in)stability of unmarried women is profound. — Rebecca Traister

Everyday it gets easier to connect with an electronic device that it is to connect with real people. — Pablo

Through endless time God's greatest gift is continuously given in silence. But whenmankind becomes completely deaf to the thunder of His Silence God incarnates as Man. — Meher Baba

Like the fragrance of lavender,
Love cannot be hidden either.
.... Sudipta Das in The Extra-Terrestrial Delivery — Sudipta Das

Make space in your life for the inevitable arrival of what you want. — Danielle LaPorte

How terribly hard and almost impossible it is to tell the truth. More than anything else, the artist in us prevents us from telling aught as it really happened. We deal with the truth as the cook deals with meat and vegetables. — Eric Hoffer

Every man may be observed to have a certain strain of lamentation, some peculiar theme of complaint on which he dwells in his moments of dejection. — Samuel Johnson

Tis said that persons living on annuities Are longer lived than others. — Lord Byron

I have to say, old friend, you were supposed to help train her, not drop her off a cliff. — Brandon Sanderson

The mistake our politicians so often make with these industry leaders is in thinking they are interested in, or respectful of, the power of government. All they want is to keep stealing. If you can offer them the government's seal of approval on that, they'll take it. But if you can't, well, they'll take that too. — Matt Taibbi