Oeroeg Festival Quotes

#1. Marriage is like democracy - it doesn't really work, but it's all we've been able to come up with ...

Shirley Hazzard

#2. Everyone always tells you that you're the only one that can do this or that role right, and if you say no, they go to somebody else and tell them that they're the only one that can do it right. But when they're talking to you, you're always the 'Best Actor of Your Generation.'

Christian Bale

#3. For the Rays, to speak properly, have no Colour. In them there is nothing else than a certain power and disposition to stir up a sensation of this Colour or that.

Isaac Newton

#4. When I started my program ... there was a big clock in the corner and I looked and it said nine o'clock exactly. And it was funny, because when I was standing on the podium, it said exactly 10 p.m., and this whole hour had changed my life.

Sarah Hughes

#5. The best way to become poor is to give nothing.

Sunday Adelaja

#6. She's pretty. (It's amazing how girls can say this and make it the most withering insult.)

Ned Vizzini

#7. You need somebody to stand up for you. You're the little guy, you just don't realize it yet. The Commonwealth has all the aces, and you don't even know you're playing cards.

Lisa Scottoline

#8. You're never rich enough if you can be richer.

Jules Verne