Singaporean Quotes & Sayings

Friendship is the bestiest thing that comes to life . Friends will always be there for you don't worry about the fakes worry about the people who had your back from the start and never treated you wrong always remember they are your real friends don't never take them as granted because one day your going to lose a good friend by the way your action's are when you see a good friend stick to that person . — Marilyn Monroe

You know the Singaporean. He is a hard-working, industrious, rugged individual. Or we would not have made the grade. But let us also recognise that he is a champion grumbler. — Mr. Lee

Doodles are not about performance; they are somewhere between practice and delving. — France Belleville-Van Stone

The scandalous bronze-lacquer age of hungry animalisms, spiritual impotences, and mendacities, will have to run its course, till the pit follow it. — Thomas Carlyle

I grow fond of David, who lays a single stone before Goliath and a single book, the Psalms, in the mouth of the world. — Erri De Luca

Having the right to happiness means having the right to earn it, not having it given to you without effort and action on your part. — Jillian Michaels

Nobody will leave any place unless they're forced out. That's the nature of humans. Once you're there, you're there. I've never seen anybody get up voluntarily and leave any place. — Albert Brooks

Hi Sarah (re Holy Cow) - I couldn't agree more! I am a Singaporean 'Indian' and the FILTH & confusion of India is unbelievable! - 66yrs after independence(I nearly died there myself). May I in support refer you to an article by Dr Sam Pitroda on overpopulation there which is the crux of the matter. If you would like to correspond, more than happy to. Kind Regards: George — Sara MacDonald

I do a lot of planning and plotting. That's my greatest weakness. If I'm not terribly careful, I'll plan to a point where it could come out cut and dried. — Hume Cronyn

If anything can be invented more excruciating than an English Opera, such as was the fashion at the time I was in London, I am sure no sin of mine deserves the punishment of bearing it. — Margaret Fuller

The distinction between investment and speculation in common stocks has always been a useful one and its disappearance is cause for concern. — Benjamin Graham

The Singaporean government, which represents legal migrant workers in employment disputes and claims of exploitation, requires that they stay in the country until the disputes are settled. If they leave, their claims are closed. — Alan Huffman

Johns, what the fuck are you doing?" Digger called. "You don't chat with ghosts, you fucking run like Scooby-Doo, man!"
"It's okay," Owen told them.
"Scooby-Doo!"
"Not okay," Nick cried. — Abigail Roux

In a few years, it is very likely that this series will be considered a milestone in the history of Singapore photography. — Raphael Millet

Looking at Loh's photographs, it is obvious that there is nothing simpler and richer than a face when stripped of all effects and affects, poses and postures, stances and pretences. The Singaporeans featured here are almost
expressionless, as if the photographer wanted to leave us clueless about them. What do their faces tell us? Why are they so familiar? Why do we feel we know this auntie that we don't know? And this guy with the nondescript look? And this girl with no distinguishing mark? Have we met before? — Raphael Millet

I live in New York, but I still get the village gossip. My apartment is a crash pad for so many Singaporean cousins and friends. — Kevin Kwan

Your thoughts should agree with your words, and the words should agree with your actions. In this world people think one thing, say another thing, and do something else. This is horrible. This is crookedness. — Sivananda

Maria didn't fear the sea but, as taught by her father, she respected its power. In her experience the ocean had no intent to drown travellers. — Sara Sheridan

Singapore had taken a much more, well, Singaporean approach to the problem of hippies than the Malaysians had. They'd let them in, but only if they got a haircut. — Peter Moore

He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round. — Walter Scott

The biggest challenge is not the storytelling, it's to track every character's arc through the entire movie. — Simon Kinberg