Jengkal Semaju Quotes & Sayings

What I do know is that wondering why you survived don't help you survive. — Jeannette Walls

I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is. — Tea Obreht

It's easier to get rid of things when you're giving them to someone who can use them, but don't let this kind intention become a source of clutter itself. I have a friend who has multiple piles all over her house, each lovingly destined for a particular recipient. — Gretchen Rubin

Our planet is poorly equipped for delight.
One must snatch gladness from the days that are.
In this life
it's not difficult to die.
To make life
is more difficult by far. — Vladimir Mayakovsky

preacher's tone: — James Joyce

How you choose to present yourself to the world shows what's meaningful to you - and what you want others to think is meaningful to you. — Mackenzie Davis

I really have been trying to get in movies with smaller parts, just to get myself in there and get more practice, and not have to take the big lead. In 'Dylan Dog' I was one of the co-stars, and I had a pretty good part in that movie. — Kurt Angle

Wealth ... or death. Those were the choices Gateway offered. Humans had discovered this artificial spaceport, full of working interstellar ships left behind by the mysterious, vanished Heechee. Their destinations are preprogrammed. They are easy to operate, but impossible to control. Some came back with discoveries which made their intrepid pilots rich; others returned with their remains
barely identifiable. It was the ultimate game of Russian roulette, but in this resource-starved future there was no shortage of desperate. — Frederik Pohl

So near along life's stream are the fountains of innocence and youth making fertile its sandy margin; and the voyageur will do well to replenish his vessels often at these uncontaminated sources. — Henry David Thoreau

Certain unique books seem to be without forerunners or successors as far as their authors are concerned. Even though they may profoundly influence the work of other writers, for their creator they're complete, not leading anywhere. — Dodie Smith

People use restaurants to do business, to do politics, to socialize. — Danny Meyer

The thought of all that happiness was hard to bear. What's the point of happiness when all it does is throw the facts of dying into clear relief? — Sebastian Faulks

The proper method of philosophy consists in clearly conceiving the insoluble problems in all their insolubility and then in simply contemplating them, fixedly and tirelessly, year after year, without any hope, patiently waiting. — Simone Weil

You may think that you don't want to read about the problems of being brought up Mennonite, but the great thing about books is that you'll read anything a good writer wants you to read. — Nick Hornby