Tumasek Quotes & Sayings

Everything in my novel is true, except the stuff I made up. — L.D.C. Fitzgerald

Real friends don't care if you're gay, bisexual, pansexual or just plain weird. They stand by you always and help you up if you fall ... — Anonymous

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends. — Oscar Wilde

In my arrogance I had omitted to make proper sacrifice - for — Diana Gabaldon

We'd never seen anything as green as these rice paddies. It was not just the paddies themselves: the surrounding vegetation - foliage so dense the trees lost track of whose leaves were whose - was a rainbow coalition of one colour: green. There was an infinity of greens, rendered all the greener by splashes of red hibiscus and the herons floating past, so white and big it seemed as if sheets hung out to dry had suddenly taken wing. All other colours - even purple and black - were shades of green. Light and shade were degrees of green. Greenness, here, was less a colour than a colonising impulse. Everything was either already green - like a snake, bright as a blade of grass, sidling across the footpath - or in the process of becoming so. Statues of the Buddha were mossy, furred with green. — Geoff Dyer

I wanted to distance myself from those pasty faced corpses in suits I saw in airline magazine ads. If I was going to become a businessman, I was going to do it on my own terms. — Yvon Chouinard

I had a really small role (playing goddess Aphrodite), and I was only working for just over a week with Ralph Fiennes and Liam Neeson. I'd done a few short films before and thought acting was really creative, but when I worked with those guys, I was just like: "Wow!" They had such fun and freedom. They were trying things and stretching themselves. It was so inspiring that I was like: "I definitely want to do this!" — Agyness Deyn

The same organizational principles which called us forth into self-reflection have called forth self-reflection out of the planet itself. And the problem then is for us to suspect this, act on our suspicion, and be good detectives, and track down the spirit in its lair. And this is what shamans are doing. They are hunters of spirit. — Terence McKenna

Jesus Christ! I would crawl over the mountains of Beverly Hills on my hands and knees if I could do a movie with Doris Day! — John Wayne

I'm a sex addict. It's my cross to bear. It's a real disease with doctors and medicine and everything! — Will Ferrell

The love of a good woman can save a man" I remember Gabriel saying. "Or it can drive him to fits of unspeakable madness. — Molly Harper

The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts. — Ken Burns