Lonceng Bambu Quotes

#1. For me the first great joy of traveling is simply the luxury of leaving all my beliefs and certainties at home, and seeing everything I thought I knew in a different light, and from a crooked angle.

Pico Iyer

#2. Children, after being limbs of Satan in traditional theology and mystically illuminated angels in the minds of educational reformers, have reverted to being little devils; not theological demons inspired by the evil one, but scientific Freudian abominations inspired by the unconscious.

Bertrand Russell

#3. When it meows, one scarcely hears it ... It has not the need of words to speak the lengthiest phraseologies.

Charles Baudelaire

#4. Master of the Dark Shadow. For I also, Niniel, had my darkness, in which dear things were lost; but now I have overcome it, I deem.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#5. What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don't like it.

Alan W. Watts

#6. It's important to respect both your teammates and your opponents. Friendships can make a victory last forever.

James Koven

#7. I know I had no right to do this to you, but if you ask me if I regret it, I will answer you no. If you ask me if I'd do it again, I'd say yes. I would do it again and again and again. There is a darkness in me that lives and breathes just like yours, except it's motivated by love, and not by pain.

Angela Richardson

#8. [on Springsteen's "Stolen Car":] A kind of mystical film noir, written by Kafka and shot by Polanski.

Adam Sweeting

#9. When I was studying ... there weren't any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and I had the technique to do it. People have heard my music and heard the classic in it, so I have become known as a black classical pianist.

Nina Simone

#10. I thoroughly enjoy a good hot bath. That is my ultimate luxury.

Michelle Yeoh

#11. First you must face your own reality in the present, here and now! If you fail to do that, if you do not obtain first-hand experience from it, there will be no deep, far-reaching changes in you.

Frank M. Wanderer