Nadeesha Alahapperuma Quotes & Sayings

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. — Mary Wortley Montagu

She wore a fitted gown of gold that shimmered in the dim light. Her regal grace bedazzled him, in spite of his best attempts at feigning disinterest. She was even more beautiful than he remembered.
He let his breath out in a hiss.
He realized he had stopped breathing. There she was, the woman for whom he had risked everything. Never did he dare to harbor any hope of seeing her again. Yet after five long and bloody years, their paths had crossed once more. — Jennifer McKeithen

Always write to change society for the better.
You will go, but it will live as a treasure forever. — Debasish Mridha

as his mother told Grandma Marie, there are no words for some — Chris Abani

Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves. — David Garrick

When you're in something like 'Game of Thrones' and get the chance to play a part like Bronn, with that cast and with Peter Dinklage, it's wonderful. — Jerome Flynn

If you're serious about improving your play, be brutally honest with yourself. — Greg Norman

A Tragic Honesty, like the Ian Hamilton biography of Lowell that I read recently, is a sad and occasionally terrifying account of how creativity can be simultaneously fragile and self-destructive; it also made me grateful that I am writing now, when the antidepressants are better, and we all drink less. Stories about contemporary writers being taken away in straitjackets are thin on the ground - or no one tells them to me, anyway - but it seemed to happen to Lowell and Yates all the time; there are ten separate page references under 'breakdowns' in the index of A Tragic Honesty. — Nick Hornby

Sometimes you need to fight your demons yet, sometimes you just need to embrace them. — A. Mani

From the day I met you, I've known that you are a glass-half-empty-and-maybe-poisonous guy. — Ed Finn

I persist in preferring philosophers to rabbis priests imams ayatollahs and mullahs. Rather than trust their theological hocus-pocus I prefer to draw on alternatives to the dominant philosophical historiography: the laughers materialists radicals cynics hedonists atheists sensualists voluptuaries. They know that there is only one world and that promotion of an afterlife deprives us of the enjoyment and benefit of the only one there is. A genuinely deadly sin. — Michel Onfray

My grandfather stood beside me and looked across the street, too. "No, Bryce," he said softly. "She's the same as she's always been; you're the one who's changed." He clapped his hand on my shoulder and whispered, "And son, from here on out, you'll never be the same again. — Wendelin Van Draanen

In dire times of survival it's not uncommon for people to turn to their faith and that was also true for the men on the oil tanker Pendleton, which was cut in half by 60-foot waves during the hurricane. — Jim Whittaker

He felt no longer either desire or need for sleep but rather watchfulness. He knew that all the hazards and perils were drawing togetherto a point. The next day would be a day of doom, the day of final effort or disaster. — J.R.R. Tolkien

I never know what defines you as being posh. I went to a posh school, definitely. — Jack Whitehall