Jemput Pisang Quotes

#1. I would like to have a girlfriend who is more mature than my mental age.

Yuki

#2. I've been surrounded by a lot of people who felt that external success would result in them feeling good about themselves. But it just seems extremely unfulfilling to me.

Alanis Morissette

#3. This is a landscape that should not be sold.

Terry Tempest Williams

#4. It's beautiful here and we're still unhappy

Ian McEwan

#5. A scrap of seventeenth-century sunlight compressed into dots and pixels,

Donna Tartt

#6. The delicacy, the impermanence, the emptiness of mind states. Just like the weather, they blow in and out. Good mood. Bad mood. Tranquil mood. Frazzled mood [p. 105].

Sylvia Boorstein

#7. Virtually all families in the middle of the earnings distribution aspire to send their children to a school of at least average quality. (We'd think ill of any parent whose aspirations were lower.) The rub is that the best schools tend to be located in more expensive neighborhoods.

Bob Frank

#8. When you start performing, you realize that you have to separate yourself from the pack. So I would never wear bell-bottoms, which everybody else was wearing. I had short hair - and to see a 21-year-old guy walk onstage without longish hair was, in itself, weird. Every entertainer needs a shtick.

Loudon Wainwright III

#9. The time is well past for the church, particularly the Western church, to rethink and reimagine what it means to be the church in the twenty-first century.

Richard R. Dunn

#10. Who are they to give stars or dots? They're Wemmicks just like you.
Eli to Punchinello (p. 25)

Max Lucado

#11. In some circles where very heavy people think they have very heavy brains, words like "charming" and "clever" and "pretty" are all put-downs; all the lighter things in life, which are the most important things, are put down.

Andy Warhol

#12. Next to the pastoral came the agricultural life. When you add to that the manufacturing phase of development, society begins to fill out, and needs but wings to fly, and commerce is its wings.

Henry Ward Beecher

#13. Home isn't where it used to be. Home is anywhere you hang your head.

Elif Shafak

#14. Is it love? I don't know," he said truthfully. "Sometimes I think I'm just addicted to him. Or that he's cast some kind of horrible curse on me where I'm to follow him for the rest of my life, doomed to fall for his lies over and over again.

Bey Deckard

#15. So long as the international community consists of sovereign states, war between them remains a possibility, of which all governments have to take reasonable account.

Michael Howard