Permata Bisnis Quotes & Sayings

Men prominent in life are mostly hard to converse with. They lack small-talk, and at the same time one doesn't like to confront them with their own great themes. — Max Beerbohm

It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable. — Maya Angelou

I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure. It stimulates and inspires me. — Zane Grey

Oscar night is a ridiculous night where you go to these parties and you see everyone that you've ever wanted to work with and admire. — Jordana Brewster

I think every painting should be the same size and the same color so they're all interchangeable and nobody thinks they have a better painting or a worse painting ... Besides even when the subject is different, people want the same painting. — Andy Warhol

The Nuclear Security Summit was President Obama's initiative born out of his vision to leave behind a safer, more prosperous world for the future generation. — Lee Myung-bak

Now, I whispered. Boom! boom! boom! went the three heavy rifles, and down came Sir Henry's elephant dead as a hammer, shot right through the heart. — H. Rider Haggard

I rapped on the door. By which I mean I knocked on it, not that I did a little MC-ing. But if I had've done a little MC-ing, it would've been quite angry stuff, like NWA when they're on about the Rodney King incident. Only I'd have made it less about police brutality and more about old Devon men ripping young folk off with their made-up stories of broken down cars. And there I think you'll find the main difference between British and American crime. — Danny Wallace

What frightens me about America today is that in the large majority there is no active sense of the value of the individual: few citizens feel that they are the Republic, responsible for what happens. And when the individual in a democracy ceases to feel his importance, then there is grave danger that he will give over his freedom, if not to a Fascist State, then to the advertising men or Publicity Agents or to the newspaper he happens to read. — May Sarton

When the Buddha declares there is escape from sorrow, the escape is Nirvana, which is not a place, like heaven, but a psychological state of mind in which you are are released from desire and fear. And your life becomes harmonious, centered and affirmative. Even with suffering.

The Buddhists speak of the bodhisattva - the one who knows immortality, yet voluntarily enters into the field of the fragmentation of time and participates willingly and joyfully in the sorrows of the world. — Joseph Campbell

It is Jazz's very nature to change, to develop & adapt to the circumstances of its environment. — Pat Metheny

Bunches of flowers and kisses, their bodies locked together by a stopwatch.
Descriptive on an affair — Susan Richards Shreve

I am in a mixed race marriage myself, and I have a mixed race son ... The racial perception interest is probably always going to be there to some extent. — Celeste Ng

Avoid greatness in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favourites enjoy. — Horace