Malaccan Quotes & Sayings

Genres have a history and impose a historical character upon the writer. What is interesting in the poem involves a certain kind of dramatization of the self that you don't have to engage in in the essay. In fact, the essay is a more social medium than the poem. — Vijay Seshadri

The gap between our feelings and our social observation is dangerously wide. — Raymond Williams

When I was done with high school, I knew that music was really important to me and I knew I didn't want to be a cellist, but I wasn't really sure if I wanted to be a composer, or think about - I was just interested in the ideas behind music, I was interested in mathematics. — Tod Machover

The Marsh King raised himself up and ushered me out the door with the air of a host who has just realized he is one guest away from a comfortable nap. — Catherynne M Valente

Your mind is a mirror and you see yourself in it again and again. — Debasish Mridha

I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference. — Orlando Bloom

Negative thinking is subtle and deceptive. It wears many faces and hides behind the mask of excuses. It is important to strip away the mask and discover the real, root emotion. — Robert H. Schuller

Either 'Deuce Coupe' has aged badly, or I have. I suspect it's the latter. — Robert Gottlieb