Fonseka Book Quotes & Sayings

H. L Mencken's Dictionary of the American Language supplies a long list of slang terms for being drunk, but the Irish are no slouches, either. They're spannered, rat-arsed, cabbaged, and hammered; ruined, legless, scorched, and blottoed; or simply trolleyed or sloshed. In Kerry, you're said to be flamin'; in Waterford, you're in the horrors; and in Cavan, you've gone baloobas, a tough one to wrap your tongue around if you ARE baloobas. In Donegal, you're steamin', while the afflicted in Limerick are out of their tree. — Bill Barich

I have a tendency to be awfully big-hearted and it's very hard for me to say no, even when I need to. — Dolly Parton

These mistakes were heart-breaking. And yet, because people knew how easily they could happen , because they didn't go around with the illusion that they understood perfectly the things other people said., they were used to interrupting each other to ask if they'd understood correctly. Sometimes these misunderstandings were even desirable, since they gave people a reason to say, Forgive me, I was only scratching my nose. Of course I know I have always been right to love you. — Nicole Krauss

Earl Moncrief, the butler, built his financial, procurement, and secret service organizations with the brute power of cash and a profound understanding of clever, malicious, discontented people who lived behind servile facades. — Kurt Vonnegut

One cannot fashion a credible deterrent out of an incredible action. — Robert McNamara

Millions like me in Russia want a free press, the rule of law, social justice, and free and fair elections. My new job is to fight for those people and to fight for these fundamental rights. — Garry Kasparov

I wanted to have a normal childhood. Normal relationships. — Tommy Rettig

His words are the essence of truth ... Jesus never uttered opinions. He never guessed; He knew, and He knows. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

The essence of thought, as the essence of life, is growth. — Oscar Wilde

When any civilization is dust and ashes," he said, "art is all that's left over. Images, words, music. Imaginative structures. Meaning - human meaning, that is - is defined by them. You have to admit that. — Margaret Atwood

Comedy is equal to stupidity. As much you are stupid as much you watch comedy as much you stupid become. — Deyth Banger

If I taught a class, on my final exam I would take an Internet company and ask, 'How much is this company worth?' Anyone who would answer, I would flunk. — Warren Buffett

Steve Buscemi is hilarious. He's really, really good with improv. — Steve Carell

Capitalism is the fullest expression of anarchism, and anarchism is the fullest expression of capitalism. Not only are they compatible, but you can't really have one without the other. True anarchism will be capitalism, and true capitalism will be anarchism — Murray N. Rothbard

With every breath, I plant the seeds of devotion, I am a farmer of the heart. — Rumi