Destilovan Quotes & Sayings

I find the best things are done for yourself or start as a small project and become a big thing. — Tom Lenk

I don't mind women who want to act. That's fine. It's odd that men want to act, in that there's still a degree of vanity associated with it. — Shane Black

Ash. It's short for Ashoka."
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"A hero's name."
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"I'm not a hero."
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"Then we will make you one, Ashoka. — Sarwat Chadda

It would be a good thing to buy books if one could also buy the time to read them. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Life as it should be rarely is. — Richard Gazala

Conceived in mistrust, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created evil. — Harper Lee

People's feelings are easily swayed. The things reflected in people's eyes are full of deception. Nothing is as it appears. — Ai Yazawa

[Educated blacks] Society refuses to consider them genuine Negroes. The Negro is a savage, whereas the student is civilized. "You're us," and if anyone thinks you are a Negro he is mistaken, because you merely look like one. — Frantz Fanon

The second album of Black Mages is currently in the process of recording and the basic tracks have already been completed. Hopefully sometime in the future we will be able to have a concert. — Nobuo Uematsu

Don't forget Who you are writing for. It's easy to get discouraged when people don't like your writing, but that's just it. They're people. You don't want to serve people, you want to serve God. Write for Him, and ignore what other people say. It just doesn't matter. — Ivy Rose

The prehistorical and primitive period represents the true infancy of the mind. — James Mark Baldwin

This has been the century of strangers, brown, yellow and white. This has been the century of the great immigrant experiment. It is only this late in the day that you can walk into a playground and find Isaac Leung by the fish pond, Danny Rahman in the football cage, Quang O'Rourke bouncing a basketball, and Irie Jones humming a tune. Children with first and last names on a direct collision course. Names that secrete within them mass exodus, cramped boats and planes, cold arrivals, medical checks. It is only this late in the day, and possibly only in Willesden, that you can find best friends Sita and Sharon, constantly mistaken for each other because Sita is white (her mother liked the name) and Sharon is Pakistani (her mother thought it best - less trouble). — Zadie Smith