Thingyan Quotes & Sayings

The city grows like a cancer; I must grow like a sun. The city eats deeper and deeper into the red; it is an insatiable white louse which must die eventually of inanition. I am going to starve the white louse which is eating me up. I am going to die as a city in order to become again a man. Therefore I close my ears, my eyes, my mouth. — Henry Miller

People who record birdsong generally do it very early
before six o'clock
if they can. Soon after that, the invasion of distant noise in most woodland becomes too constant and too loud. — Richard Adams

Civilian notions about unreasonable search and seizure and warrants and probable cause stop at an army post main gate. — Lee Child

Consider again that dot [Earth]. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. — Carl Sagan

Each book I've done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once I find it, I stick with it. — Paul Auster

I asked a couple of months ago if anyone would like to start picketing the gas stations. — Ron Ziegler

Everybody's forgiven you but you. And you are so far behind us." "You might be surprised about that. — Lev Grossman