Romi Garduce Quotes & Sayings

I've been asked why does Ireland produce so many great musicians, and the answer is it doesn't. When you count the great musicians Ireland has given the world in the last 20 years, you can do it on one hand. — Roddy Doyle

People who have lived through a war know that as it approaches, an at first secret, unacknowledged, elation begins, as if an almost inaudible drum is beating ... an awful, illicit, violent excitement is abroad. Then the elation becomes too strong to be ignored or overlooked: then everyone is possessed by it. — Doris Lessing

(in response to the question: what do you think of e-books and Amazon's Kindle?)
Those aren't books. You can't hold a computer in your hand like you can a book. A computer does not smell. There are two perfumes to a book. If a book is new, it smells great. If a book is old, it smells even better. It smells like ancient Egypt. A book has got to smell. You have to hold it in your hands and pray to it. You put it in your pocket and you walk with it. And it stays with you forever. But the computer doesn't do that for you. I'm sorry. — Ray Bradbury

Matheus looked down at his feet and sighed. "I lost my shoes." "Tragedy affects us all, Sunshine," Quin said. — Amy Fecteau

I believe that young people wearing hoods, unless they are very young, can be frightening. What are they hiding? Why don't they want to come out into the light with the rest of us? They may be perfectly nice, but the hoods send an uncertain statement. — Roger Ebert

Contrary to popular belief: Knowing where you are from will not really tell you where you are going. It will merely tell you why you are where you are. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

What we can do with these means (our own unassisted strength) is still very small compared to what we could do in acting in union with God himself, who created and ultimately controls all other forces. — Dallas Willard

I once knew a guy that everyone called Trodon because his face looked like it had been trod on. — Richard Flanagan

He'd protect me and shelter me forever. But I was beginning to realize that being sheltered came at a price. — Claudia Gray

Blood, pain and an all-surpassing lust for one man settled so deeply into his bones, the need had become part of him. Bottomless, like the touch he craved. Vadim. — Aleksandr Voinov

The Warren Court wasn't that radical. It didn't break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution ... I intend to succeed where they failed. — Barack Obama

Places of incredible glamour, possibility, power, excitement and pleasure. Love your libraries! — Stephen Fry

Aishwarya, my parent's daughter, has been brought up with enough values inculcated where I will use my discretion in my choices. At the same time, I recognize I am an actor, I am an artist, and if I feel the need to be liberated and do the kind of work I need to do, I will. — Aishwarya Rai Bachchan