Silia Adalah Quotes & Sayings

Driven by the hunger for fame and originality, we are like these monkeys, thinking that we are so clever in discovering things and convincing our fellow humans to see what we see, think what we think, driven by ambition to be the savior, the clever one, the seer of all. We have all kinds of small ambitions, such as impressing a girl, or big ambitions, such as landing on Mars. And — Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse

The Infusion of a China plant sweetened with the pith of an Indian Cane. — Joseph Addison

I can't stop watching black and white movies. I live in a world of Warner Brothers movies and all of that stuff from an older era, and I love them. I still love them. When I look at them, I sometimes think I was born in the wrong time. — William Forsythe

The presence of the present has become insistent, undeniable, and I dare not look away. — Wendell Berry

I'm a real nature lover, so whenever possible, I like to get to the beach or get to a forest or get somewhere there's fresh air. Apart from that, I'm a film addict and a DVD freak. — Murray Bartlett

Art and culture are nonetheless vital, essential even, to what it means to be human, yet digital abundance has diminished our sense of their worth. — Astra Taylor

Evil is a matter of choice. Those people who have been victimized and refuse to imitate their oppressors are in my mind the greatest heroes we have. — Andrew Vachss

Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness. — William James

You can work on an airplane but you can't fix anything here at the house?"
"Yeah, well, I'm an enigma," she said. "An annoying one. Just ask anyone in my family. — Jill Shalvis

Modesty is to merit, what shade is to figures in a picture; it gives it strength and makes it stand out. — Jean De La Bruyere

From a certain angle, the spring seems so calm: warm, tender, each night redolent and composed. And yet everything radiates tension, as if the city has been built upon the skin of a balloon and someone is inflating it toward the breaking point. — Anonymous

Eighty percent of love is smell. — Tom Robbins

Every acting gig isn't the same, every writing job isn't the same, every live performance isn't the same - the challenge is the level of difficulty or ease, and that may vary. — Ricky Jay

The countries who out-educate us today will out-compete us tomorrow. — Barack Obama