Freddy Budiman Quotes & Sayings

Well, we are equals, in our fear as in our loneliness. — Ruskin Bond

People say 'Why would you learn Dutch? Nobody speaks it. Why not French?' Even the Dutch say that to me! I say because I want to live here, I think it's only common courtesy that I speak the language. — Anthony Geary

To be shockingly original with your first novel, you don't have to discover a new technique: Simply write about people as they are and not as the predominantly liberal and humanist literary establishment believes that they ought to be. — John Braine

What I like about the trees is how
They do not talk about the failure of their parents
And what I like about the grasses is that
They are not grasses in recovery
And what I like about the flowers is
That they are not flowers in need of empowerment or validation. They sway
Upon their thorny stems
As if whatever was about to happen next tonight
was sure to be completely interesting — Tony Hoagland

Minds differ still more than faces. — Voltaire

My biggest problem will be lack of match toughness but I am a positive, optimistic person. — Greg Rusedski

Despite the slowness, the infidelity, the errors and sins it committed and might still commit against its members, the Church, trust me, has no other meaning and goal but to live and witness Jesus. — Pope Francis

Music is an ocean, but the repertory is hardly even a lake; it is a pond. — Aldous Huxley

I loved the last album, and it was one hundred percent me. But this is like me two years later, who understands a little bit more about music and understands a little bit more about making an album. I wrote a lot more. — Jennifer Lopez

I wouldn't see myself as a gambler. — Sean Quinn

I was the classiest bitch I knew. And if I wasn't, I was definitely the Cassiest, and that was close-e-fucking-nough. "How — Max Monroe

And for some reason she held the sentence suspended without meaning in her mind's ear, " ... quite enough for everybody at present," she repeated. After all the foreign languages she had been hearing, it sounded to her pure English. What a lovely language, she thought, saying over to herself again the common place words ... — Virginia Woolf

Blank paper has always inspired me. — Daniel Handler