Shanaka Amarasinghe Quotes & Sayings

Lao Tsu says the way of life is water, to be fluid. — Frederick Lenz

A man who is all theory is like "a rudderless ship on a shoreless sea." ... Theories and speculations may be indulged in with safety only as long as they are based on facts that we can go back to at all times and know that we are on solid ground. — Elisha Gray

I think you're a good person or a todd by the age of eight. — Bruce Robinson

Editors, for the most part, don't care 'what' you've done, or how astounding the physical event may have been. You need to write well. Many others are capable of doing what you have done (probably), so you must write better than they ... — Tim Cahill

In the First World War, there was the sudden passion of nationalism, and the killing took place because of these emotions. But the Soviet case is different, because you had systematic murder, like the Holocaust. — Ryszard Kapuscinski

A palm-leaf carriage should move slowly, or else it loses its dignity. — Sei Shonagon

I'm open to comments. I'm open to objective points of view, because I've been very narrow and very subjective. — Richard Donner

Podcasts themselves cannot exist without the Internet - in a way, they are a microcosm of the Internet. — Julie Klausner

I love to go shopping at Target. They have so much stuff there, you can buy almost anything, it's really amazing. — Liv Tyler

I've been really enjoying writing articles and writing music and music for movies. — Alanis Morissette

And I have the sunset, and the Tuscan wine, and the white teeth of the women in Rome. I am a traveler in Romance. — W. Somerset Maugham

The important question is, How many hands have I shaked? — George W. Bush

One curator said he didn't want my work in his gallery because it was so simple even children understood it. I thought, what a wonderful tribute! — Ted Harrison

People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the calling that bothers me. — Octavia E. Butler