Butet Kertaradjasa Quotes

#1. Because a man can only live with despair for so long before hope resurges.

Robert J. Crane

#2. Speak softly and carry a big stick.

Teddy Roosevelt

#3. This is where I think the writing started. The "righting," if you will. The righting of circumstances, the shaping of the world the way it should have been, had God not had crossed eyes and buck teeth. In the real world I had no power; in my world I was Hercules unchained.

Robert McCammon

#4. Because I've been having a hard time since before the day we met. She never walked away from me because of it. Her feelings for me weren't contingent on how easy or hard it was to be in my life. She doesn't have to be sunny for me. That's not how it works.

Emery Lord

#5. Being a musician - it's easier for me to date an athlete. There's too much competition [with a musician]. There's too much know-it-all pop star.

Jessica Simpson

#6. I have two vintage typewriters. One just about works and the other hasn't a hope in hell, bless it. But they're both beautiful, and they'll stay with me just as long as there's a roof over my head.

Matt Roper

#7. Every morning is a fresh breath and blessings.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. Most hedge funds fail: 90 percent of all the hedge funds that have ever existed have closed or gone broke.

John Lanchester

#9. England's bowlers have improved, I'll give them that.

Jeff Thomson