Jayawardena Quotes

#1. Being an intellectual among intellectuals means nothing. There must be more.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#2. Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It's almost a form of meditation- an investigation of my own life.

Neil Simon

#3. before men could speak they enjoyed confounding another with signs
they enjoyed this as much as a mirror enjoys an image
as much as the evening like a ship enjoys a sapphire grave

Frank Stanford

#4. The birds suffer their suffering each in a lifetime, forgetting it as they go.

Guy Davenport

#5. Isn't a gay Mormon like an oxymoron?'
'Do I look like an oxymoron to you?'
'An oxymormon.

David Ebershoff

#6. Knowing how to fight made men more bold, because no one fears doing what it seems to him he has learned to do. Therefore, the ancients wanted their citizens to be trained in every warlike action.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#7. All education is self-discovery.

Ray Bradbury

#8. Sometimes I wish I was poetic and subtle. I write very bold and blunt and tell it like it is.

Pink

#9. Women are the victims of war ... as widows they've faced the trauma of being single parents and livelihoods of families are affected. A lot of gender-related problems come up in terms of health, education, domestic violence, etc.

Kumari Jayawardena

#10. I was utterly, breathtakingly, and touchingly clueless. That's how folks like me get jobs like mine: honor outweighs common sense.

Stephen L. Burns

#11. Today women in many countries are taking part in various types of movements of protest, some of which are serious struggles for economic and social emancipation .

Kumari Jayawardena

#12. How can a hard and fast view of a world that is never hard and fast possibly be accurate?

Steve Hagen

#13. When an untoward event occurs in your life, react to it without haste or passion.

Joe Hyams