Manilal Dahanayake Quotes

#1. So, when there is a strife of tongues, at some meeting, the chairman, to obtain unity, suggests that every one shall speak in French. Perhaps it is bad French; French may not contain the words that express the speaker's thoughts; nevertheless speaking French imposes some order, some uniformity.

Virginia Woolf

#2. For some stories, it's easy. The moral of 'The Three Bears,' for instance, is Never break into someone else's house.' The moral of 'Snow White' is 'Never eat apples.' The moral of World War I is 'Never assassinate Archduke Ferdinand.

Lemony Snicket

#3. Everyone, from the Mother Superior to the priests to my parents
they were so upset and reproachful ... I felt as if something they all passionately believed in depended on me carrying on with something I didn't.

Philip Pullman

#4. You know what they say about secrets, right?

Alyson Noel

#5. Children and scientists share an outlook on life. 'If I do this, what will happen?' is both the motto of the child at play and the defining refrain of the physical scientist.

James Gleick

#6. I'm in constant inner dialogue with my father still.

Paul Auster

#7. When you accept your imperfections-and still are willing to brush yourself off and start again-you can make changes ... for you are on a heroic journey of the heart. To me this is the best kind of hero. The kind of hero I strive to be.

Denise Linn

#8. The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.

E.L. Doctorow

#9. I try to sleep myself, but my occupied mind is holding my tired body hostage.

Camron Wright

#10. Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Be kind. Always.

Brad Meltzer

#11. When I saw that Moses' version of the Genesis of the world did not fit sufficiently in many ways with Aristotle and the rest of the philosophers, I began to have doubts about the truth of all philosophers and started to investigate the secrets of nature.

Gerardus Mercator

#12. The best painting is totally non-narrative. It doesn't have to tell you a story.

Peter Greenaway