Refracted Wave Quotes & Sayings

When we moved to England in 1986, I was ten years old and I didn't know anything about punk or hip hop. The only words I knew in English were 'dance' and 'Michael Jackson.' We got put in a flat in Mitchum, and the council gave us second hand furniture, second hand clothes and a second hand radio that I took to bed with me every night. — M.I.A.

That's a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water. — Alan Bennett

You don't want to be hanging around this village. You don't want to be anywhere near here. Do you understand me? I shouldn't be talking to you like this. But if you know what's good for you, you'll get away. You'll go as far away as you can and you won't come back. — Anthony Horowitz

An entertainer should in his public performance keep himself out of any controversy, political or otherwise. — Kate Smith

Pirates have always fascinated me. — Tanith Lee

Smell is stimulating. It stirs things up and makes us nostalgic - a wonderful word which literally means 'ache for home' - which serves to inspire new circuits in the brain. — Lyall Watson

Visit your soul; don't visit your past. — Paulo Coelho

I can tell that I shaped the book very deliberately, after a great deal of thought, and that I insisted this piece function as a prologue, but I find the word "intention," confusing ("trust the art," as D.H. Lawrence said, "not the artist"). These speculations are perhaps better responded to by text and reader, rather than author. — Laura Mullen

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so. — Mark Twain

I like writing a body of music that has a cohesive, emotional thread through it. — Patti Scialfa

You and your ship will immediately familiarize yourselves with the guidelines for dealing with citizen civilians. And you will follow them. — Ann Leckie