Butet Manurung Quotes

#1. But I lie. I embellish. My words are not deep enough. They disguise, they conceal. I will not rest until I have told of my descent into a sensuality which was as dark, as magnificent, as wild, as my moments of mystic creation have been dazzling, ecstatic, exalted.

Anais Nin

#2. Like a glowworm golden, in a dell of dew, Scattering unbeholden its aerial blue Among the flowers and grass which screen it from the view.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#3. HUMORIST, n. A plague that would have softened down the hoar austerity of Pharaoh's heart and persuaded him to dismiss Israel with his best wishes, cat-quick.

Ambrose Bierce

#4. It is high time Americans grew accustomed to our traditions.

James Rollins

#5. There is not much sense in suffering, since drugs can be given for pain, itching, and other discomforts. The belief has long died that suffering here on earth will be rewarded in heaven. Suffering has lost its meaning.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#6. Don't you know a rumble ain't a rumble unless I'm in it?

S.E. Hinton

#7. Our show is different, because it's not about law and order, it's about psychology, the intent of somebody.

Vincent D'Onofrio

#8. I believe without exception that theory follows practice. Whenever there is a conflict between theory and practice, theory is wrong. As far as I'm concerned, we make theories for what people have done.

David Baker

#9. I awaken. I consume oxygen, then bacon, eggs and black coffee, then my wife, then bacon.

Nick Offerman

#10. The extreme of flexibility is chaos and the extreme of being structured is rigid and staying sane, or indeed using your creativity, is about being aware of these extremes and steering yourself to areas where you work best which usually tend to be more in the middle than at either extreme edge.

Philippa Perry

#11. Careful what you wish for, lad, Rob thought. Blood's not so easy to put back in, once you let it flow. Your own no more than anybody else's.

Victor Milan

#12. Here in Denmark, you can easily just be left alone. This is my 'hood, and people leave me alone; it's nice.

Lars Mikkelsen

#13. The measure of a man is in the lives he's touched.

Ernie Banks

#14. Is she a friend of yours?"
"No," Diana said flatly. "She's my mother.

Erin O'Riordan