Kurniawan Quotes & Sayings

Cheap music, childish images, the vulgate in language, in its crassest sense, can penetrate to the deeps of our necessities and dreams. It can assert irrevocable tenure there. The opening bars, the hammer-beat accelerando of Edith Piaf's Je ne regrette rien - the text is infantile, the tune stentorian, and the politics which enlisted the song unattractive - tempt every nerve in me, touch the bone with a cold burn and draw me into God knows what infidelities to reason, each time I hear the song, and hear it, uncalled for, recurrent inside me. — George Steiner

She sifted, sighed, and stared up at the ceiling, trying to think about anything but Lord Maccoon, her current predicament, or Lord Akeldama's safety. Which meant she could do nothing but reflect on the complex plight of her mama's more recent embroidery project. Thins, in itself, was a worse torture than any her captors could devise. — Gail Carriger

The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones. — Baron De Montesquieu

I believe that the physical effect, the physical set, whenever you can, is ten times better than the digital effect. — Guillermo Del Toro

Even when my parents were together, they both had to travel and work, and it wasn't like they had nine-to-five jobs. In that way, it wasn't a normal family life. — Georgia Jagger

Lao Tsu always points a finger directly to us. He says we must begin with ourselves. It's impossible to bring order into the world unless we bring order into ourselves. — Frederick Lenz

int i = inputStream.read(readData); while (i != -1) { outputStream.write(readData, 0, i); — Budi Kurniawan

My sister is not a public person, so I don't think it's right to discuss her. — Laura Schlessinger

It's not man's job to think about whether God exists or not, especially when you know that right in front of your eyes one person is stepping on another's neck. — Eka Kurniawan

For hundreds of years, more than half of the face of this earth has been controlled by European countries and turned in to colonies, and the Europeans have sucked up whatever they could find, brought it all home, and made themselves rich. But not Germany and Japan; they didn't get anything. But now they have just as much power as any other developed country, and so they are demanding their share. That is the origin of this war, a war between greedy nations. — Eka Kurniawan

I wasn't sleeping on the streets at night. Of course, there were a lot of good people sleeping in the streets. They weren't fools, they just didn't fit into the needed machinery of the moment. And those needs kept altering. — Charles Bukowski

If I might share my opinion, this world is hell, and our task is to create our own heaven. — Eka Kurniawan

There are ten church-members by inheritance for one by conviction. — Austin O'Malley

I'm working hard to have a good life.
You don't need fancy things to feel good.
You can hug a puppy.
You can buy a can of paint and surround yourself with color.
You can plant a flower and watch it grow.
You can decide to trust people, the right people.
You can decide to start over and let other people start over, too. — Joan Bauer

Sometimes,' he starts, 'the hardest part about letting someone go is realizing you were never meant to have them. — Rebecca Serle

There's no going back, and there's no hiding the information. So let everyone have it. — Andrew Kantor

Why," Comrade Yono couldn't stop himself from asking, "do you care so much about those newspapers?" "Because the Russian Revolution would never have succeeded if the Bolsheviks hadn't had their newspaper. — Eka Kurniawan

Communism was born from a beautiful dream, the likes of which there will never be again on the face of this earth: that there would no longer be lazy men who eat their fill while others work hard and starve. — Eka Kurniawan