Mawar Merah Quotes & Sayings

Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers. — Tom Waits

The further one goes, the less (he realizes he) one knows. — Laozi

Nervous? He's tighter than Pat Buchanan's sphincter muscle at a 4th of July soiree on Fire Island. — Dennis Miller

He lives in the halflights in secret places, free and alone, this mysterious little great being whom his mistress calls, My cat. — Margaret Benson

As soon as you think of fishing you think of things that don't belong to the modern world. The very idea of sitting all day under a willow tree beside a quiet pool - and being able to find a quiet pool to sit beside- belongs to a time before the war, before radio, before aeroplanes, before Hitler. — George Orwell

I don't think I'm yet peaceful because I have to struggle every day within myself when I see the suffering of the people of the world, the women and the children. And fury sets in. But I have to transform that and take it out and do something positive with it - but I have to do that sometimes minute to minute. — Betty Williams

I'm building a dream with elevators in it. — Rick Ross

Never inject a man into the top, if it can be avoided. In a big organization, to have to do that, I think, is a reflection on management, Of course there are always exceptional cases. — Alfred P. Sloan

The importance of resolution over craft is one of the most important shifts in art making besides the creation of Photoshop. — Andrew Durbin

I hate going to the gym and doing it the old-fashioned way. I hate anything that's too straightforward, too routine, too familiar. I get bored really, really quickly. — Rihanna

I thought it [Star Wars] was too wacky for the general public. Right or wrong this is my movie, this is my decision, and this is my creative vision, and if people don't like it, they don't have to see it. — George Lucas

Are you sad, sing? — Lailah Gifty Akita

I always feel like I'm the one with everything to prove. — Keira Knightley

Popeye the Sailor Man has more cultural longevity. Only women and poofs read or write now. Otherwise, these days, no sooner has someone been sodomised by a close relative than they think they can write a memoir. The game's up. — Hanif Kureishi

There was something of relative freedom in that feudal gesture of the vow; for no man asks vows from slaves anymore than from spades. — G.K. Chesterton