Sarimanok Quotes & Sayings

What a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and radishes, and out comes sighs, laughter, and dreams. — Nikos Kazantzakis

Would it be possible to find a more ungrateful boy, or one with less heart than I have! — Carlo Collodi

He was occupied with the forming of a pattern out of the manifold chaos of life, and the materials with which he worked seemed to make preoccupation with pigments and words very trivial. Lawson had served his turn. Philip's friendship with him had been a motive in the design he was elaborating: it was merely sentimental to ignore the fact that the painter was of no further interest to him. — W. Somerset Maugham

The Instant

Today
one small snake lay, looped and
solitary
in the high grass, it

swirled to look, didn't
like what it saw
and was gone
in two pulses

forward and with no sound at all, only
two taps, in disarray, from
that other shy one,
my heart. — Mary Oliver

life rarely finds its exact likeness in a novel, that is hardly fiction's purpose, — Katie Kitamura

Baby wee is good because it's pure, doesn't contain toxins and doesn't smell, — Vitali Klitschko

I try to go out, check out the town, and have a good time. It's a life experience: not everyone gets the chance to see the world and play golf, do the thing you love while travelling. — Peter Uihlein

Working as a musician, I have to constantly generate new material, so school keeps me sharp. Reading and writing all the time helps me to be a better songwriter. — Kate Voegele

Why do we cling to bigotry? Because bigotry, plainly, is convenient. It is a near-effortless way to both elevate one's stature and make a pity grab in this culture of victims that we have become. — John Ridley

To each his own way of calming down. — Marjane Satrapi

Sex is a body-contact sport. It is safe to watch but more fun to play. — Thomas Szasz

For many, the icon of the British Museum is the Rosetta Stone, that administrative by-product of the Greek imperial adventure in Africa. — Neil MacGregor

I'm not into the whole showbiz scene. — Samantha Mumba

When you know your purpose in life, then by faith you know God will enable you to do it — Sunday Adelaja