Virada Drums Quotes & Sayings

Oh, gentle feelings, soft sounds, the goodness and the gradual stilling of a soul that has been moved; the melting happiness of the first tender, touching joys of love- where are you? — Ivan Turgenev

We have followed a path of moderation, development is our priority, national unity, good community relations, Muslims and non Muslims, this is what has given us the advantage. — Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

You don't pick black actors or black directors because they are black. You pick them because they are good. If you lend somebody 50 million dollars you want you're money back. You don't care if they are oppressed. You just want you're money back. — Denzel Washington

There will never be any peace in the world as long as we eat animals. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

People don't like to be sold, but they love to buy. — Jeffrey Gitomer

The best among all is one who possesses God's love no matter what religion he belongs to. — Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi

For my first three books the setting (or place if you will) has always been a given - N.J. and the Dominican Republic and some N.Y.C. - so from one perspective you could say that the place in my work always comes first. — Junot Diaz

These women of mine are decent, simple human beings who have no other concern than that of their physical condition ... it is as though one were watching through a keyhole. — Edgar Degas

Why can't I have my own life?! — Suzanna J. Linton

Every relationship is fundamentally a power struggle, and the individual in power is whoever likes the other person less. — Chuck Klosterman

But "ma'am" doesn't translate in the North, where it just startles and offends. — Rob Sheffield

The detective novel is the art-for-art's-sake of our yawning Philistinism, the classic example of a specialized form of art removed from contact with the life it pretends to build on. — V.S. Pritchett