Kesusasteraan Nusantara Quotes & Sayings

It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid. — Ray Bradbury

A G-Rated story? About taking some deformed baby and locking him up? And if it was true, and this poor guy had been locked up in there for decades, and someone threw in a perfectly good woman, what the hell do you think he'd do with her? Play Parcheesi? — Kelley Armstrong

Heard a rumor you can't cook," he said.
She didn't look away from her reading. "You know rumors.
They're always true."
She had him there. According to some of the tabloids, he had fourteen love children, two with aliens and one with the sister of Bigfoot. — Jamie Farrell

But there was one bully to rule them all, one bully to find them, one bully to bring them all and in the darkness pound them. — Michael Grant

The one who is good, is free even being a slave; the one who is bad remains a slave even being a king. — Saint Augustine

I told her that the pills will let her slip off and that when a person dies there comes a long clean sleep."
"That's all," Alexandria whispers, echoing after her, "a long clean sleep. — Annie Fisher

The word absurdity is coming to life under my pen; a little while ago, in the garden, I couldn't find it,
but neither was I looking for it, I didn't need it: I thought without words, on things, with things.
Absurdity was not an idea in my head, or the sound of a voice, only this long serpent dead at my feet,
this wooden serpent. Serpent or claw or root or vulture's talon, what difference does it make. And
without formulating anything clearly, I understood that I had found the key to Existence, the key to my
Nauseas, to my own life. In fact, all that I could grasp beyond that returns to this fundamental
absurdity. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Culture in America and everywhere else comes from the suffering, from those who don't want the old ways. They want to bring in the new, whether it's the ballet, when it started, or Shakespeare. — Russell Simmons

When I came to America, I told my dad I wanted to be an actress. — Odeya Rush

Country Music is great music because it really comes from real life experiences. It is such a great haven for reality. — Bryan White

I do not believe that politics in the long run is about individuals. It is about ideas. — Eliot Spitzer

To be a Jew means always being with the oppressed and never the oppressors. — Marek Edelman

Sometimes I think we only imagine ourselves. It's hard sometimes, coming face-to-face with your truer nature
the part that you conceal, even from yourself. — Elizabeth Kelly

What makes the temptation of power so seemingly irresistible? Maybe it is that power offers an easy substitute for the hard task of love. It seems easier to be God than to love God, easier to control people than to love people, easier to own life than to love life. — Henri Nouwen

Things have a way of settling back. — Jenny Han