Nikiah Quotes & Sayings

Dark here comes quickly. He undresses and slips into his silky cold sleeping bag. Up above, the clouds mask the stars and the moon alone glows like a strange pearl. Somewhere, he thinks, cherishing his last thought before sleep, somewhere, out there, the last tiger stands with her back to the rising wind and slowly shakes herself awake. — Julia Leigh

I still read a lot about teenage angst! Of course, any kind of mourning CAN become pathological and then it 'has to stop', but to move through life untouched by the loss of hopes, beliefs and aspirations once cherished is also questionable. — George Pattison

If you'd have asked me when I was auditioning for High School Musical if I ever thought I was going to play a Marine ... — Zac Efron

We are just stardust after all. — Jodi Lynn Anderson

And they both had the land about them; the sky that went on forever, it seemed, and was filled with sun and with the air that they all needed, that the cattle needed, that the animals in the Kalahari needed
there was plenty of that; they had Botswana. So everybody had the things that mattered, when you came to think of it ... — Alexander McCall Smith

In an economy, an act, a habit, an institution, or a law, gives birth not only to an effect, but to a series of effects. Of these effects, the first only is immediate; it manifests itself simultaneously with its cause - it is seen. The others unfold in succession - they are not seen: ... Now this difference is enormous, for it is often true that when the immediate consequence is favorable, the ultimate consequences are fatal, and the converse. — Frederic Bastiat

Humor is practically the only thing about which the English are utterly serious. — Malcolm Muggeridge

Life's more science-fictiony by the day. — David Mitchell

What art thou drawn among these heartless hinds? Turn thee Benvolio, look upon thy death. — William Shakespeare

If I were asked about what to do about the level of insecurity and anxiety in contemporary Australian society, I wouldn't start with politics and I wouldn't say too much about terrorism. I'd suggest as a first step, that you invite the neighbours over for a drink this weekend. Today a drink, tomorrow a barbeque, pretty soon, a community. — Hugh Mackay