Shangala Quotes & Sayings

Never praise your cider or your horse — Benjamin Franklin

Prayer enables us to transform the world because it transforms us. — Marianne Williamson

The trouble is that once America goes off to war, it can't very well return without having fought one. If it doesn't find its enemy, for the sake of the enraged folks back home, it will have to manufacture one. Once war begins, it will develop a momentum, a logic and a justification of its own, and we'll lose sight of why it's being fought in the first place. — Arundhati Roy

Well, what was wrong with it?"
"We don't know," says James.
"That's a stupid rotten answer."
"Life is sometimes rotten and stupid. — Ann-Marie MacDonald

There is no such thing as a "general language," a language that is spoken by a general voice, that may be divorced from a specific saying, which is charged with particular overtones. Language, when it means, is somebody talking to somebody else, even when that someone else is one's own inner addressee. — Mikhail Bakhtin

Readers are also not impressed by characters who have so many talents, skills, charm and good looks that they sound annoyingly too good to be true. — Charles Christian

We have learned not to care about the state of that other place even as it burns or drowns. — Nayomi Munaweera

Love Song
How can I keep my soul in me, so that
it doesn't touch your soul? How can I raise
it high enough, past you, to other things?
I would like to shelter it, among remote
lost objects, in some dark and silent place
that doesn't resonate when your depths resound.
Yet everything that touches us, me and you,
takes us together like a violin's bow,
which draws one voice out of two separate strings.
Upon what instrument are we two spanned?
And what musician holds us in his hand?
Oh sweetest song. — Rainer Maria Rilke

I was beginning to feel compassion for myself. — Aspen Matis

My dad, Bob Blum, used to dash across Grand Central's main terminal catwalk several times daily as a young CBS correspondent, running copy from newsroom to studio and back - because CBS' first broadcasts were from Grand Central Terminal. The pictures on people's television sets used to shake when the trains came in! — Jenna Blum

Yeah, dolphins and monkeys basically could play chess together. Those are brilliant animals. — Perry DeAngelis