Jayani Weerasinghe Quotes & Sayings

We are essentially outsiders and that is the best definition of an entrepreneur I have ever come across. — Anita Roddick

The pursuit of truth is not important. The pursuit of that truth is important which helps you in reaching your goal that is provided you have one. — Ayn Rand

It's hard to sing really well when you're playing an instrument, but it'd be great to try and sing really well and have vocal effects and one drummer on a real drum-kit, and one on an electronic kit. — Jay Watson

There were no sparks, just a gasoline fire burning through the dark — Sukh Dev

Illusions are hazardous, and so are disillusions. — Mason Cooley

If you want change, create the causes. — Dalai Lama

Our economic system and our planetary system are now at war. Or, more accurately, our economy is at war with many forms of life on earth, including human life. What the climate needs to avoid collapse is a contraction in humanity's use of resources; what our economic model demands to avoid collapse is unfettered expansion. Only one of these sets of rules can be changed, and it's not the laws of nature. — Naomi Klein

I believe it is better to live a dream rather than to simply dream it. The dream is the start of something greater, something that impels us to make daring decisions. And it's true that the person who pursues a dream takes many risks. But the person who does not runs risks that are even greater. — Paulo Coelho

Even Tom Sawyer had a girlfriend and to talk about adults without talking about their sex drives is like talking about a window without glass. — Grace Metalious

As you're learning your lines and the character you're playing, you're going to make mistakes but I learned more about Shug Avery. I learned my lines, but everything had to be done quickly. — Heather Headley

I intended to give you some advice but now I remember how much is left over from last year unused. — George Harris

Man's cleverness is almost indefinite, and stretches like an elastic band, but human nature is like an iron ring. You can go round and round it, you can polish it highly, you can even flatten it a little on one side, whereby you will make it bulge out the other, but you will NEVER, while the world endures and man is man, increase its total circumference. — H. Rider Haggard

Everything I've learned about art was (a) because I was actually interested, or (b) I was actually interested in covering my ass because of what I was writing about. — Peter Schjeldahl

That's the classic nature of people, though. We'll skip the basics and get pissed when the sexy stuff doesn't work. — Martyn Rooney

Human scrambled around, totally oblivious to the hell that burned beneath them. They were like children, so addicted to their toys they'd probably never notice the mortal world collapsing. — Cecily White