Butala Quotes

#1. To me, a political song is also a personal song. Most political activism has been driven by empathy for other people and the desire for a world that's less divisive. Even if songs aren't overtly political, they can make a listener more empathetic.

Conor Oberst

#2. There ought to be a room in every house to swear in. It's dangerous to have to repress an emotion like that.

Mark Twain

#3. I figure there are a few actors like Marlon Brando, George C. Scott and Laurence Olivier who have been touched by the hand of God. I'm in the next bunch.

John Forsythe

#4. The dynamic inter-linkage of art forms in orature is thus seen as reflecting a Weltanschauung that assumes the normality of the connection between nature, nurture, supernatural, and supernurtural. I

Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

#5. Take short views, hope for the best and trust in God.

Sydney Smith

#6. Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.

Eric Hoffer

#7. I began to see, in the place of emptiness, presence. I began to see not only the visible landscape but the invisible one, a landscape in which history, unrecorded and unremembered as it is, had transmuted itself into an always present spiritual dimension.

Sharon Butala