Wickrama Bogoda Quotes & Sayings

The Orient was Orientalized not only because it was discovered to be "Oriental" in all those ways considered commonplace by an average nineteenth-century European, but also because it could be - that is, submitted to being - made Oriental. — Edward W. Said

I got the best of Jesus. He got the worst of me. — LeCrae

If stupid hippies hadn't killed nuclear power, we'd have nuclear power plants, safer and cheaper than coal-fired plants, all over, and electric cars really would be zero emissions. — Penn Jillette

I started caddying when I was nine years old at a very exclusive country club in Dayton, Ohio. And I saw how the other half lived, if you will. — Martin Sheen

Theirs was a closeness that went way beyond physical proximity. She was under his skin. Moving closer to his heart.
He just didn't know it yet, because no one else had ever found the pathway before. — Kitty French

A great artist can change society because of the entertaining and mesmerizing quality of his or her art. — Jeffrey Lewis

I want to paint what I feel, and feel what I paint. — Vincent Van Gogh

Then you have [Donald] Trump. So it could be the tightest, most hazardous race in political history and we can't afford to allow Trump to slither through. So that's where I'm at. — Tom Hayden

I know I could make a difference by supporting the right causes. — Nell Newman

Almost no one who was a big star in high school is also big star later in life. For us overlooked kids, it's so wonderfully fair. I — Mindy Kaling

My wives will be mine in eternity. — Joseph Fielding Smith

{President] Kayibanda's government [in Rwanda] continued the persecution against the Tutsis and began to make use of the media it controlled to launch a propaganda campaign against us. In a country where more than half the people cannot read or write and very few have televisions, radio is the dominant media. The fact that some newspapers were still printing the truth didn't matter much to the part of the population that couldn't read.

Most of the literate people were already politically aware. While an educated person might question what they read or hear from the media, the uneducated tend to accept it. The uneducated are more easily affected by threats and the emotional trauma that propaganda like this can create. — John Rucyahana

My only failure was the restaurant in Myrtle Beach. I kept it open for four years. It was in a tourist town, it was only busy four and half, five months of the year. But the bills kept coming all year. — Mickey Gilley