Pendekar Bujang Lapok Quotes & Sayings

Half the battle is that people have to like you before you say one joke, one bit of humor. — Don Rickles

Not to be covetous, is money; not to be a purchaser, is a revenue. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Life is a gift that must be given back and joy should arise from its possession. It's too damn short and that's a fact. Hard to accept this earthly procession to final darkness is a journey done, circle completed, work of art sublime, a sweet melodic rhyme. A battle won. — Dean Koontz

Bella, I've already expended a great deal of personal effort at this point to keep you alive. I'm not about to let you behind the wheel of a vehicle when you can't even walk straight. Besides, friends don't let friends drive drunk," he quoted with a chuckle. I could smell the unbearably sweet fragrance coming off his chest. "Drunk?" I objected. "You're intoxicated by my very presence." He was grinning that playful smirk again. — Stephenie Meyer

The shaking had stopped, outwardly, but her mind couldn't hold a thought for any length of time without splintering apart. She took a deep breath, thought of a cliff above the sea, the taste of figs on her tongue, a man's finger touching the jut of her wrist, the sea so blue she thought it might drive her mad though she understood nothing of madness then — Kamila Shamsie

Note to self: never cockblock demons or werewolves. — Alexis Hall

We're a lukewarm people for all our feast days and hard work. Not much touches us, but we long to be touched. We lie awake at night willing the darkness to part and show us a vision. Our children frighten us in their intimacy, but we make sure they grow up like us. Lukewarm like us. On a night like this, hands and faces hot, we can believe that tomorrow will show us angels in jars and that the well-known woods will suddenly reveal another path. — Jeanette Winterson

I know stereotypes have a bad reputation, people say, "Oh, you shouldn't stereotype people," but I think it's important to recognize that we couldn't function in the world without stereotypes. — W. J. T. Mitchell

I believe in God, only I call it nature. — Frank Loyd Wright

To be an architect is to possess an individual voice speaking a generally understood language of form. — Robert A. M. Stern

You write with ease, to show your breeding,
But easy writing's curst hard reading. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story. — Wilkie Collins

If you ask me 'What is the one great move you can make to improve the Israeli economy?' of course it will be signing an agreement with the Arab world about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This will change everything. — Yair Lapid

You make decisions and decisions will make you. — Lester Sumrall