Duleeka Wijegunawardena Quotes

#1. The protestors feel that the elections have been hijacked and the choices are between two corrupt parties - that when the power structure no longer represents the people, the vote is no longer a tool for change [Jehane Noujaim, "Tahrir Square, Cairo: Lost and Found in the Square"].

Catie Marron

#2. The devils more orthodox than some theologians I know.

Adrian Rogers

#3. Think of Florence, Paris, London, New York. Nobody visiting them for the first time is a stranger because he's already visited them in paintings, novels, history books and films. But if a city hasn't been used by an artist, not even the inhabitants live there imaginatively.

Alasdair Gray

#4. So when the world knocks at your front door,
clutch the knob and open on up,
running forward into its widespread greeting arms
with your hands before you,
fingertips trembling though they may be.

Anis Mojgani

#5. I grew up in Swaledale, in Iowa. Its population was 220 when I was growing up, and it's probably 150 now. I lived in town and sometimes worked on the farms outside of town in the summers.

Tom Drury

#6. I can't live without scissors. I don't have any tattoos, but I thought if I ever got a tattoo, it should probably be scissors.

Rebecca Ward

#7. Dostoevsky's nature was two-fold, like Spinoza's, and like that of nearly all those who try to awaken humanity from its torpor.

Lev Shestov

#8. like every other aspect of our psychology, motivation is biological.

John J. Ratey

#9. She was as necessary as the sun to me

Tiffany Baker

#10. life of a professional spy as one of constant travel and mind-numbing boredom broken by interludes of sheer terror.

Daniel Silva