Rayuan Pulau Quotes & Sayings

Tocqueville remarks on this in Democracy in America. "An American," he wrote, "cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. — Neil Postman

As soon as you have finished telling us anything, you seem to be ashamed of what you've said," Aglaia observed suddenly. "Why is that? — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

You know, quite a few species of fish require two or more sexual partners ... — Kristen Schaal

I always think that the people who have the hardest time in the spotlight are the people who have unearned fame, like the girlfriends of people who are famous or people who become figures of attention, not through their own merit. — Rosamund Pike

This rising global humanism is, in fact, the rising into consciousness of a tribal god similar to the kind of tribal god that functioned in these pre-Hellenic societies. — Terence McKenna

I don't care about the Guggenheim. The Guggenheim isn't involved in anything that I am interested in. I don't care about motorcycles and Armani suits. — Chuck Close

My favorite word is existentialism. I can't say it and I'm not quite sure what it means. — Geri Halliwell

I've never tried writing at a coffeehouse. I just know instinctively it's not for me. — Wentworth Miller

If you're not lost, you're not much of an explorer. — John Perry Barlow

My spine straightened as I gaped at him. "Are you fucking serious?"
He blinked once and then narrowed his eyes. "You don't need to cuss."
"I'll fucking cuss if I want to fucking cuss," I snapped. "Fucker. — J. Lynn

When you are getting on in years it is nice to sit by the fire and drink a cup of tea and listen to the school bell sounding dinner, call-over, prep., and lights out. Chips always wound up the clock after that last bell; then he put the wire guard in front of the fire, turned out the gas, and carried a detective novel to bed. Rarely did he read more than a page of it before sleep came swiftly and peacefully, more like a mystic intensifying of perception than any changeful entrance into another world. For his days and nights were equally full of dreaming. — James Hilton