Trajno Dozvoljene Quotes & Sayings

In the 1950s, there was a sense that literature and writing had a burning importance - that you could write a book or paint a painting and change the world. That kind of faith seems to be lacking now. Literature has been pushed toward the sidelines of [modern day] culture. There isn't that sense of centrality or permanence to the written word - everything seems more disposable. — Joyce Johnson

Some of the songs I've made, I'm really disappointed in how I mixed them. — Moby

People loved you in the way they knew how - and often it was not the way you knew. Or needed. — Josh Lanyon

No people in all history paid a higher price for freedom. And no people have done so much to advance the dignity of man. We are called materialistic. May be so ... but our materialism has made our children the biggest, tallest, most handsome, and intelligent generations of Americans yet. They will live longer with fewer illnesses, learn more, see more of the world, and have more success in realizing their personal dreams and ambitions than any other people in any other period of our history - because of our materialism ... I think on our side of civilization and on the other side is the law of the jungle ... We all have to recognize that this country has been handed the responsibility, greater than any nation, to preserve some 6000 years of civilization against the barbarians. — Ronald Reagan

It was the feel of it, the love of it, not the thought: it was instinct and reflex and knowing the wind, and Maris was the wind. — Lisa Tuttle

I don't take any responsibility for the lunatic fringes of my own religion. — J.K. Rowling

If you are going to be a writer, you have to have self-belief, every writer gets rejections, they say the difference between a successful and unsuccessful writer is an unsuccessful writer gives up, if you keep going you will succeed. — Anthony Horowitz

So, the thing is, my dad, the immigrant, is really, really disappointed that I have an allergy. A peanut allergy. Because immigrants do not believe in allergies. I swear to God, ask any brown person with an accent that you see and they'll tell you that allergies are some New World shit. — Jade Chang

Would you be perfect?
Then do not pick and choose.
Accept everything as it comes.
Like the perfect ones, you will dwell in the light
and work in the shadow. — Tanu Reshma B Singh

Everyone wants a love song you can dance to. — Rita Ora

Since I'm always working, my best holiday memories are definitely when I can just go home and spend time with my family. — Chris Brown

The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention. — Franz Schubert

I go into meetings, and people have this preconceived notion of me that I didn't work hard to get where I am. — Lauren Conrad

They were bound for college, husbands, child-rearing, unhappiness only dimly perceived - bound, in other words, for life. — Jeffrey Eugenides