Parakramabahu National School Quotes

#1. What a man Balzac would have been if he had known how to write.

Gustave Flaubert

#2. No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern'd angler.

Izaak Walton

#3. For next to God, who is our strength, all depends upon the valour of our arms.

Bernal Diaz Del Castillo

#4. Hating a book is not unlike hating a person; in fact it's tempting to just go ahead and hate the author personally, by proxy, qua human being, except that I know that would be a mistake.

Lev Grossman

#5. I've never written a song that I thought was a hit.

Richard Marx

#6. Dex winks. JJ Watt does it, so I do it too. No way am I going to be caught with my dick in the wind facing one of those defensive linemen coming at me like a tank.

Kristen Callihan

#7. I keep begging myself to stop, and I keep playing, and this gap, this contradiction between what I want to do and what I actually do, feels like the core of my life

Andre Agassi

#8. Loneliness, I think, has very little to do with location. It's a state of mind. In the center of every big, bustling city are some of the loneliest people in the world.

Chris Hadfield