Noktaya Quotes & Sayings

Fortune is like glass - the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken. — Publilius Syrus

It is false to believe that the scale of fears corresponds to that of the dangers which inspire them. One might be frightened of sleeplessness and yet not of a duel, of a rat and not of a lion. — Marcel Proust

There are no factions in the Liberal Party. — Tony Abbott

Stories don't care who takes part in them. All that matters if that the story gets told, that the story repeats. Or, if you prefer to think of it like this: stories are a parasitical life form, warping lives in the service only of the story itself. — Terry Pratchett

A friend of mine, Warren Lemming, has this theory: if you're famous, it's as if you've got a golden monkey on your shoulder. When people come up to talk to you, they just see the monkey. — Heathcote Williams

My mother used to say, 'He who angers you, conquers you!' But my mother was a saint. — Elizabeth Kenny

It's not good to live so much inside oneself. It's a self-imposed exile, really. It makes you different. — Nancy Horan

more than half of all houses in Mexico City are located in unhealthy, unsafe areas. — Kurt Hollander

Having studied art history, as opposed to political history, I tend to incorporate found objects into my books. Just as Pablo Picasso glued a fragment of furniture onto the canvas of Still Life with Chair Caning, I like to use whatever's lying around to paint pictures of the past--traditional pigment like archival documents but also the added texture of whatever bits and bobs I learn from looking out bus windows or chatting up people I bump into on the road. — Sarah Vowell

I'm strictly for Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you, man, he knows the most. — Elvis Presley

When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling. — Yann Martel

Edah Amsellah - The Tears of the Dragon — Karen Maitland