Dobrinja Quotes & Sayings

I believe in self-defense and self-determination for Africans and other oppressed people in America. — Assata Shakur

The people must remain ever vigilant against tyrants masquerading as public servants. — George Washington

Life, Enza decided, is not about what you get, but what is taken from you. It's in the things we lose that we discover what we most treasure. — Adriana Trigiani

To my astonishment, everything that I had assumed was now questioned by the findings. What started off as a search for identity that appeared to be purely Scottish in origin ended up as a discovery of my migrant roots - indeed an understanding that almost all of our families, at some stage, have been migrants - and my European roots. — Gordon Brown

You know, I guess I'm like any other political figure: Everybody wants to be loved. — George W. Bush

Along with a lot of other things, becoming a Bob Dylan fan made me a writer. I was never interested in figuring out what the songs meant. I was interested in figuring out my response to them, and other people's responses. I wanted to get closer to the music than I could by listening to it - I wanted to get inside of it, behind it, and writing about it through it, inside of it, behind it, was my way of doing that. — Greil Marcus

I find writing novels a challenge, writing stories a joy. If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. — Haruki Murakami

WHO MAKES THESE CHANGES? Who makes these changes? I shoot an arrow right. It lands left. I ride after a deer and find myself chased by a hog. I plot to get what I want and end up in prison. I dig pits to trap others and fall in. I should be suspicious of what I want. DROWNING — Jalaluddin Rumi

I am very protective. I just want to make sure that she can have a healthy, safe, normal life ... in the back of my mind, she's my priority. And life is completely different now. I feel really, really just lucky that I can still do what I love, and now have a way bigger meaning. And that's to be her mother. — Beyonce Knowles

As it happens, I have personally been something of an enthusiast for the London Olympic games, mainly on the grounds a) that a bit of wasteland will be made nice and b) that it tends to make everybody happy that their country should be the centre of world attention for a couple of weeks in their life. — Evan Davis

One of the most original and poetic works of cinema made anywhere in the seventies. — Werner Herzog