Kotelawala Defence Academy Quotes & Sayings

Just because somebody hears something you say, or reads something that you write, doesn't mean you've reached them. With reading comprehension being what it is in the U. S., you can safely toss that one out the window. If you want to judge by the listening habits of people who buy records, the first thing they do is put it on and talk over it. — Frank Zappa

A leash is a rope with a noose at both ends. — Ayn Rand

Whenever I imagined my future, growing up and getting married, for some reason I always pictured a woman. It was just how my mind worked. — Calista Lynne

only white, his hair braided. He eschewed — Alice Hoffman

Of course I know that the twins are only words on a page, and I'm certainly not the sort of writer who talks to his characters or harbours any illusions about the creative process. But at the same time, I think it's juvenile and arrogant when literary writers compulsively remind their readers that the characters aren't real. People know that already. The challenge is to make an intelligent reader suspend disbelief, to seduce them into the reality of a narrative. — Michel Faber

She yanked open her shoulder bag and pulled out a stake. Boy Scouts and vampire slayers should always be prepared. — Christopher Golden

People still lived on the margins of the land they had owned. — Louise Erdrich

I can't take a well-tanned person seriously. — Cleveland Amory

Never show your weakness before adversary. — Euginia Herlihy

Nobility is only in the negation of existence, in a smile that surveys annihilated landscapes. — Emil Cioran

The more I learn about stuff the more conscious I become of grave gaps in my knowledge. — John Darnielle

There is intimacy in pain. Anyone who has comforted a sufferer knows it - the helpless tenderness, the embrace and murmur and slow rocking together as two become one against the enemy, pain — Laini Taylor

Employers should not be able to impose their religious beliefs on female employees, ignoring their individual health decisions and denying their right to reproductive care. Bosses belong in the boardroom, not in the bedroom. — Dina Titus

Follow your goals and stay focused, because you really don't have much time. — Piggy D.

What I was, isn't what I am. And what I am, isn't yet what I can be. — John Katzenbach