Rendra Quotes & Sayings

But is the Mona Lisa really art? Well then, what about an undetectably perfect copy of the Mona Lisa? That comparison (however sneaky) points up the fact that it's surprisingly difficult, maybe even impossible, to view any single work in isolation and rule definitively, "This is art" or "This is craft." Striking that difference means comparing successive pieces made by the same person. In — David Bayles

I suck at being social. I think one thing and my mouth says something completely different, like I'm possessed. By a whole lot of stupid. — Ashley Poston

Good developers know how things work. Great developers know why things work. — Ilya Grigorik

I can't understand Urdu, Bahasa or Russian, but when the Pakistani Faiz, the Indonesian Rendra and the Russian Rosdentvensky declaim, I can feel the living throb of rhythm and music, the warmth and passion of their poetry, as do the hundreds, not a mere roomful, of poetry lovers in the audience. — F. Sionil Jose

The musical stuff I'd go up for was always funny, sexy, tough-as-nails, heart-of-gold characters. — Bebe Neuwirth

I was down in the sewer with some little lover. — Bob Dylan

Deficiency in judgement is properly that which is called stupidity; and for such a failing we know no remedy. A dull or narrow-minded person, to whom nothing is wanting but a proper degree of understanding, may be improved by tuition, even so far as to deserve the epithet of learned. But as such persons frequently labour under a deficiency in the faculty of judgement, it is not uncommon to find men extremely learned who in the application of their science betray a lamentable degree this irremediable want.] — Immanuel Kant

Broken people do things better; we learned how to make it in life without the missing parts other people have. Because when you're in the dark, you appreciate everything that shines. — L.J. Shen

For whence did Dante get the material for his hell, if not from this actual world of ours? And indeed he made a downright hell of it. — Arthur Schopenhauer

I been watchin' you, workin day and night, slavin so hard you barely have time to catch your breath. People do that for three reasons. Either they crazy, or stupid, or tryin' to forget. — Nicholas Sparks

My father was a jazz tenor sax player. He played in a lot of big bands. So I had that sound around me all the time. The first record that really caught my ear was Clifford Brown's 'Brownie Eyes.' I grew up listening to John Coltrane and Illinois Jacquet. This is where I come from ... I love improvisational music. — Meshell Ndegeocello

And they do tend to be fast and up, because that's how I like to drive. — Peter Hook

The way I like to describe Hollywood today is this: everyone wants to make 'Deliverance,' but no one wants to be Ned Beatty. — Christopher McQuarrie

There are no solved problems; there are only problems that are more or less solved. — Henri Poincare

her head and her face was in shadow. She'd pushed — C.J. Box