Talaga Bestari Quotes & Sayings

If you want to sell anything, you need to have an audience to sell to. — James Chen

Since I'm an asshat, I thought I'd have a choice with you, that I'd be able to walk away if you disillusioned me or turned out to be a blood-sucking creature of the night - and okay, I would have bailed if you were evil . . . Or maybe not. Knowing myself, I'd want to save you. But you're not evil. The point is, I'm realizing you're the same as everyone else in my life, only a thousand times more potent, and that has nothing to do with where you come from. I can grit my teeth about what you do, but I can't control how I react to your laugh. I would rather be near you, see you touch everything but me, than be holding any other girl. I like being with you, Love. Playing, talking, fighting, not-touching. — Natalia Jaster

The better you know someone, the less well you often see them (and the less well they can therefore be transferred into fiction). They may be so close as to be out of focus, and there is no operating novelist to dispel the blur. — Julian Barnes

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. — Rumi

We did not oversleep at St. Nicholas. The church-bell began to ring at four-thirty in the morning, and from the length of time it continued to ring I judged that it takes the Swiss sinner a good while to get the invitation through his head. — Mark Twain

Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money. — Margaret Thatcher

Necessity, they say, is mother of invention, but fear, too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions. — Joseph Conrad

The important thing here to understand is that the people that are at Guantanamo are bad people. I mean, these are terrorists for the most part. — Dick Cheney

What are the important issues there? Khalil asked. What do left and right disagree on? As I began to answer him, as I enumerated the divisive issues, I felt faintly embarrassed at how tawdry they were: abortion, homosexuality, gun control - Khalil looked confused by that last term, and Farouq said des armes. — Teju Cole

I stand here because of you, my Aslan, my Faye, my protectors and I make the promise that what you gave me, what you taught me, I will live those lessons. I cannot repay you for what you gave me. That's all I can do. All I can do is learn the lesson you taught me and go forward in my life good and pure and right." His voice dipped to a whisper in the microphone and he finished, "Thank you." — Kristen Ashley

The events of my life are too unimportant, and have too little interest for any person not of my immediate family, to render them worth communicating or preserving. — John Marshall

In societies no less than individuals, acknowledging our limitations may ultimately be more humane than denying them. — Steven Pinker

The longer you wait, the harder it is to provide outstanding customer service. — Bill Davidow

Like Alan Turing, Zuse was educated in a system that focused on a child's emotional and philosophical life as well as his intellectual life, and at the end of school, like Turing, Zuse found himself to be something of an outsider - to the disappointment of his very conventional parents, he no longer believed in God or religion.
(Jane Smiley (2010). The Man Who Invented the Computer) — Konrad Zuse