Lindelani Gumede Quotes & Sayings

Critics do their job, and I take their criticism seriously. — Zubin Mehta

Do you know, I am putting off ending this letter as though the end would be the end of something I want to hold on to. That's not true of course - just a feeling like the quick one of hexing your trip so you couldn't go. The mind is capable of any selfishness and it thinks unworthy things whether you want it or not. Best to admit it is a bad child rather than to pretend it is always a good one. Because a bad child can improve but a good one is a liar and nothing can improve a liar. — John Steinbeck

You used to write such honest books. Honest and emotionally ambitious. Maybe they weren't finding millions of readers. Maybe they weren't making you rich. But they were making the world rich — Jonathan Safran Foer

Nature is so perfect that the Trinity couldn't have fashioned her any more perfect. She is an organ on which our Lord plays and the devil works the bellows. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

At times, look back towards your ancient days, drink deep from the eternal fountain of wisdom long gone, and then look ahead. — Abhijit Naskar

She moved closer to me, put her hands to my face, and kissed me softly on the lips.
God, it felt so good.
So perfect, so right ...
It felt so good, I nearly fell off the roof. — Kevin Brooks

These newspaper reporters ... ever since Sullivan versus New York Times ... have got a license to lie. — Edward Bennett Williams

At least I make decisions based on what I think is right, not who my friends might be. — Dick Murphy

Those who fight for food will die in hunger, those who fight for wealth will end up poor heated, only those who seek knowledge and freedome will succeed even at there past. — Hamzat Haruna Ribah

An artist ... must actively caress wonder: for fascination, like the desire to play, can be eradicated by the rigors of living. — Eric Maisel

Flakes of snow swirled and danced across the porch. The Overlook faced it as it had for nearly three-quarters of a century, its darkened windows now bearded with snow, indifferent to the fact it was now cut off from the world ... Inside its shell the three of them went about their early evening routine, like microbes trapped in the intestine of a monster. — Stephen King

It's better to regret something you have done than to regret something you HAVEN'T done. — The Butthole Surfers

Nothing has changed since I began. My eye has permitted no change. I am going to keep things like this. — Ted Hughes