Solstad Singapore Quotes & Sayings

He remembered poor Julian [actually F. Scott Fitzgerald] and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, "The very rich are different from you and me." And how someone had said to Julian, "Yes, they have more money." — Ernest Hemingway,

I'd love to be the first one to say this, but it automatically turns into - we all have those responsibilities that we ignore because we don't feel like they're ours. — Rosario Dawson

All his leisure clothes were absurd - jokes, really - as though leisure itself had to be ridiculed. — Edmund White

War, even in the best state of an army, with all the alleviations of courtesy and honor, with all the correctives of morality and religion, is nevertheless so great an evil, that to engage in it without a clear necessity is a crime of the blackest dye. When the necessity is clear, it then becomes a crime to shrink from it. — Robert Southey

A good place to start initially would be school plays. — Sara Gilbert

Where I feel something that I had written was misinterpreted in a way that made people feel bad, that is absolutely horrifying to me. I feel so embarrassed and I feel ashamed that I should make people feel bad. — Jesse Eisenberg

Do you think she knows how much I love her?"
"You gave her flowers and said you were sorry."
"I did."
"You kissed her."
I could only nod.
"You painted her pictures and hugged her when she cried."
"Yeah," I whispered.
"You laughed with her too."
I nodded again.
"Those are all the ways to say I love you. — Amy Harmon

You're 40 and he's 22. Do you have to marry him? Couldn't you just adopt him? — Ann Dunham

The aim of the book is to set a limit to thought, or rather - not to thought, but to the expression of thoughts: for in order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought). It will therefore only be in language that the limit can be set, and what lies on the other side of the limit will simply be nonsense. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Make a commitment to your self that today, success is your only options! No matter the obstacles, no matter the sacrifice! you have decided you won't be denied, you won't be defeated! — Eric Thomas

If I have taught my sons anything in life, it is to have integrity - to always tell the truth, and I believe they have. — Leonard N. Stern

There's no way I could ring up a company that was lending me a red-carpet dress and say, 'Do you have it in a 10?' Because all the press samples are an 8 - I would say a 'small 8.' — Romola Garai

It would no longer be the small thing it was before, but the most important thing in the world, the thing that would save my life. This happened time and again. — Yann Martel

Meditation plays a big role in my life. Meditation fortifies my spirit, improves my focus, my desire. When I fight I try to empty my mind. It's called Mushin. When I don't see anything around me, I only see that moment. Nothing else matters. that was how I was taught to live. — Lyoto Machida