Landlocked Asian Quotes & Sayings

Only that is poetry which cleanses and mans me. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

These people weren't Navy SEALs or Army Rangers, weren't trained by the best professional warriors in the world, weren't seasoned by a real war in which they had encountered an enemy who fought back. They lacked the honor of SEALs and Rangers, lacked ideals that stiffened the spine in times of peril. They were fanatics, driven by emotion rather than reason. Their commitment was to destruction instead of to the preservation of what was good, and this
commitment made them feel dangerous, therefore powerful and superior. Being dangerous, however, wasn't the same as being powerful and certainly didn't support a claim to superiority. Like all barbarians, they were vulnerable to panic and confusion when the destruction they wished to wreak was visited instead upon them. — Dean Koontz

I always seem to suffer some loss of faith on entering cities. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Samantha Dunn] wrote that when God wants your attention, first He throws feathers. After that, He starts throwing bricks. — Claire Fontaine

I always have shoe trouble. — Jourdan Dunn

Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes. — Friedrich Nietzsche

If Barack Obama is elected, I'll be moving out of the country. — Stephen Baldwin

One of the most subtle and powerful writers of dark fiction - a unique voice. — Michael Marshall Smith

I like to take these unusual characters and then make them as normal as possible, because we all know that the tragedy and the abnormal always hides itself behind the normal. — Isabelle Huppert

I despair of ever getting it through anybody's head I am not interested in bookshops, I am interested in what's written in the books. I don't browse in bookshops, I browse in libraries, where you can take a book home and read it, and if you like it you go to a bookshop and buy it. — Helene Hanff

Now, every morning when I open my eyes, I long to see my old room full of my things, my clothes all over the floor and my school prizes on the shelves. — Malala Yousafzai

The most glorious moment you will ever experience in your life is when you look back and see how God was protecting you all this time. — Shannon L. Alder

It is the writer's job to make the play interesting. It is the actor's job to make the performance truthful. — David Mamet

Leaders are not worried about the respect and honour they can be given, but the impacts and influence they can give! — Israelmore Ayivor