Funny Malay Sayings

#1. The piano is just a different animal. It's expensive, it's big, it's heavy, and it doesn't fit in the mix easily. Everyone grew up with a piano in their living room, so rocking out on the piano was accessible - it wasn't an upper-class thing. Now pianos have become very much a piece of furniture.

Ben Folds

#2. I'm a big fan of Edouard Vuillard, so I'd like anything by him - particularly a painting called 'Madame Hessel on the Sofa.' His work is realistic without being literal: I can really imagine what Madame Hessel is thinking.

Lesley Manville

#3. Simon Gray, I decided when I first witnessed this frog into prince transformation, did not have a drinking problem. He had a drinking solution.

Stephen Fry

#4. I've always believed in quickness over strength and size.

Dean Smith

#5. When choosing friends, I seek quality, not quantity.

Charles F. Glassman

#6. I decided quickly that committing crimes against grammar was a hard limit for me.

Sophie Morgan

#7. [the war in Iraq] could have terrifically good effects troughout the Middle East

William Kristol

#8. Many writers profess great exactness in punctuation who never yet made a point.

George D. Prentice

#9. The boats came, and they were only taking a few people at a time, so what happened was they took a boat and said, 'We can have two more children', so the boys went.

Anna Lee

#10. Think. Don't just swing. Think about the pitcher, what he threw you last time up, his best pitch, who's up next. Think.

Ted Williams

#11. I'm the girl who's like, 'Why wear heels when I can wear tennis shoes and be comfortable?' I've always been the girl who's like, 'Let's go play basketball.'

Kyla Pratt

#12. I think the problem with schools is not too many incentives but too few. Because of tenure, teachers' unions, and the fact that teachers generally aren't observed in their classrooms, they can do whatever they want in class.

Steven Levitt