Edirisinghe Cushion Quotes

#1. The act of laughing releases some nice chemical into your brain, you feel good and it's free.

James Patterson

#2. I had fired 9-millimeters before and didn't like them. they weren't as accurate as my .38 special. they weren't as safe, and they could jam. i had never been one to substitute quantity for quality, and there was no substitution for being informed and practiced

Patricia Cornwell

#3. No man can have a right to impose an unchosen obligation , an unrewarded duty or an involuntary servitude on another man.
There can be no such thing as the right to enslave .

Ayn Rand

#4. A lack of education fertilizes the weeds of folly.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#5. As Mrs. Song would observe a decade later, when she thought back on all the people she knew who died during those years in Chongjin, it was the simple and kindhearted people who did what they were told
they were the first to die.

Barbara Demick

#6. Most people would rather stay home and watch Casablanca for the fourth time or the 10th time on Turner Classic Movies than go see Matrix 12 or whatever the hell the flavor of the month is.

Joseph Bologna

#7. I am the centre of everything surrounded by the great nothing.

Fernando Pessoa

#8. Morelli grabbed the front of my shirt, pulled me to him, and kissed me.
It was a great kiss, but I didn't know what the heck it meant. It seemed to me a breaking up kiss would have had less tongue.

Janet Evanovich

#9. I think that evolution has had a hand in selecting people who had a sense of doing something beyond themselves.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#10. If you start praising your wife, if you start telling her how beautiful she is, and how glad you are to have her in your life, when you talk about the good, you will draw out the good. If you talk about the negative, you'll draw out the negative. It's up to you.

Joel Osteen

#11. I stepped inside the front hall and kicked off my snow boots. I slammed the door behind me, making the dark ruby and emerald glass shake in the small leaded panes. I slid purposely on the hall rug, causing it to bunch and crinkle on the slippery polished oak of the floor.

Margaret Laurence

#12. Everything I write is highly personal, but put in such a way that it's not dropping everything in someone's lap. Although sometimes I think 'The Taxi Ride' embarrasses me, because sometimes I think it's too close.

Jane Siberry

#13. The only problem
with Haiku is that you just
get started and then

Roger McGough