Swala La Quotes & Sayings

No durable things are built on violent passion. Nature grows her plants in silence and in darkness, and only when they have become strong do they put their heads above the ground. — Annie Besant

[On Jason Mashak's book SALTY AS A LIP, as reviewed in The Prague Post:] Mashak amalgamates various national, historical and religious traditions into a myth-mash that illuminates many sects' fanatical compartmentalizing, and the fact that so many religions and philosophies share similar goals, if not roots. — Stephan Delbos

This will never leave me: that I had love and love died; a photo and a piece of tape is not much, I have learned late, but give me 14 days or 14 years, I will kill any man who would touch or take whatever's left. — Charles Bukowski

Sure, this was where her father had planned the De Beers diamond heist when she was three. It was the very room where her uncle had orchestrated the hijacking of eighty percent of the world's caviar when she was seven. — Ally Carter

There was always an element of melancholy involved in sex. After his indiscriminate adolescence he'd preferred sad women, delicate and breakable, women who'd been messed up and who needed him. — Margaret Atwood

One should not only photograph things for what they are but for what else they are. — Minor White

Then she turns to me. 'Tell me. How are you really?' she says, as if there were two versions of my life, and now she is not on the verge of tears at all, but sharp-voiced as an interrogator. — Per Petterson

Nixon was the beginning of people not trusting politics. — Daryl Hall

I'm not particularly pre-occupied with the husband / baby thing. Besides I have a dog. — Calista Flockhart

The Greeks, as in the case of Aristotle, whose interpretation of African teachings would, some have said, lead to the foundation of Islam as as a religion, would steal what texts they could, burn the rest and destroy the very place from which all knowledge first came from. — Rick Duncan

You have to have sympathy for the villain. Even the most disgusting ones, you have to find something to connect with. I try to put as much of myself in every single character that I play. — Milo Ventimiglia

The only people who really worry about money are the very poor and the very rich. — Deepak Chopra