Gelora Quotes & Sayings

It's funny how you can intensely investigate one very particular thing, and then it can lead you to other things through links and stuff like that. It's like you're going on this selective, very precise detour. But then it is strange because with it being so quick, there must be a difference. — Jarvis Cocker

When people ask me how I am I tell them......"I'm present — Matthew Donnelly

I read novels but I also read the Bible. And study it, you know? And the more I learn, the more excited I get. — Johnny Cash

The fact is that the camera is literal if anything, which gives it something in common with a thermometer ... Often the tension that exists between the pictorial content of a photograph and its record of reality is the picture's true beauty. There is sleight of hand in photography ... you make the viewer think he's seeing everything while at the same time you make him realize he's not. I try to make my pictures seem reasonable and then, at the last minute, pull the rug from beneath the viewer's feet, very gently so there's a little thrill. — John Loengard

Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled. — Eric Hoffer

Without thinking twice, he'd lifted his hand, still clutching the penknife, and drawn it swiftly along her milky skin, made his pain her own . . . — Kate Morton

Doing nothing would stress me out. So I am still pretty much active practicing judo with my friends, who are former judo athletes, to maintain our fitness as well as the friendships among us. In my spare time, I usually go jogging around the Gelora Bung Karno stadium or head to the gym. — Joe Taslim

You won this job because you were the best for the job. You are smart, quick to learn, and can quickly acquire any skill you might be lacking. — Carla Harris

Talking about pumpkins doesn't make them grow. — Alexander McCall Smith

A writer's work has to take account of many rhythms: Vulcan's and Mercury's, a message of urgency obtained by dint of patient and meticulous adjustments and an intuition so instantaneous that, when formulated, it acquires the finality of something that could never have been otherwise. But it is also the rhythm of time that passes with no other aim than to let feelings and thoughts settle down, mature, and shed all impatience or ephemeral contingency. — Italo Calvino

In any event, it's not exactly a secret to regular readers what my views on the war are. — Garry Trudeau

And so you prefer her faults to other people's perfections? — Anne Bronte