Lahiru Mudalige Quotes & Sayings

The wicked have told me of things that delight them, but not such things as your law has to tell. — Saint Augustine

This sense of being out of time has driven thousands of people from their homes into moving-picture theaters where new universes appear before them, with emphasis on man and his major problem: a thing called, conveniently, love. The Sunday midnight shows do a thriving business, and the people go back to their homes, sick with the sickness of frustration; it is this that makes the city so interesting at night: the people emerging from the theaters, smoking cigarettes and looking desperate, wanting much, the precision, the glory, all the loveliness of life: wanting what is finest and getting nothing. It is saddening to see them, but there is mockery in the heart: one walks among them, laughing at oneself and at them, their midnight staring. — William, Saroyan

Keep smiling, the world needs beautiful things! — R.E.S. Tidmore

(By the way, if you are going to read this story at all, and if you don't know already, you had better get it into your head that the left of a ship when you are looking ahead, is port, and the right is starboard.) All — C.S. Lewis

I played bass for a year, but I wasn't getting better at it, so I decided to stop so I could see my friends. — Daniel Radcliffe

Relationships change us and make us grow. — Viola Davis

When I was 15 or 16 and I started climbing up the ladder of success in amateur boxing, a reporter asked me, "What do you want to be?" I think he was expecting me to say, "A champion." I said, "I want to be special." I don't know why I said that, but I didn't just want to be a fighter. I wanted to have an impact with people, particularly kids. — Sugar Ray Leonard

I giggle when I put myself down. It's just funny to me. — Pauly Shore

Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice. — Boris Pasternak