Crnjanski Sumatra Quotes & Sayings

Never awake me when you have good news to announce, because with good news nothing presses; but when you have bad news, arouse me immediately, for then there is not an instant to be lost. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Strategy is for making progress and progress is in simplicity. — Pearl Zhu

was not old enough to understand the need to go back to a place where things were simple. He had no happiness in his face, the young ranger; perhaps he had never had a place where things were simple, a place he could think about when he needed to remember happiness. Perhaps the young ranger had been unlucky - he might have no good place or good time to remember. — Larry McMurtry

We're both crazy, like those who first invented love. — Paulo Coelho

It seems to me that television is exactly like a gun. Your enjoyment of it is determined by which end of it you're on. — Alfred Hitchcock

I am a wicked man ... But do you know, gentlemen, what was the main point about my wickedness? The whole thing, precisely was, the greatest nastiness precisely lay in my being shamefully conscious every moment, even in moments of the greatest bile, that I was not only not a wicked man but was not even an embittered man, that I was simply frightening sparrows in vain, and pleasing myself with it. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Love is the weakness of human beings. — Cassandra Clare

The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things. — Walter F. Ulmer

Today they say that we are free, only to be chained in poverty. — Bob Marley

That is the artist's job: take mineral rock from dark silent earth, transform it into shining light-reflecting form from sky. — Philip K. Dick

I've been focusing on my career. I've had no time. That's why I wanted to go out this weekend. I've been storing that shit up like a sexual camel. At this point I'd probably just walk into the bar, blow my load all over the room like a fire hose, and walk out. — Darien Cox