Payoh Quotes

#1. Because your master doesn't control you anymore. He hasn't for years. You're a free bird, Lucky. You are responsible for all your actions now.

Jim Tan

#2. Yes, I know most of you can tell the difference between the truth and a lie, but a lie repeated often enough is easily mistaken for the truth. A falsehood left unrefuted in time becomes a fact. I tell you, the tongue is mightier than the sharpest talon.

Jim Tan

#3. The wavelets flung themselves up as if trying to pat my feet and I darted back, laughing, and picked up my skirts to chase them back as they receded, in a game of tag more ancient than I then knew.

Amanda DeWees

#4. As a prisoner, I'm denied my sense of identity. I have no personality. I'm just a number. I have no rights. I have no say. I'm nobody.

Jim Tan

#5. I discovered that without a method or a system, there is often chaos and confusion and nothing gets done. In fact, I'm of the opinion that in any endeavour, an imperfect system is better than no system. I believe this is a universal principle of governance.

Jim Tan

#6. And why is Saint Paula a Saint? She dumps her four kids at a convent. She runs off to Hajira with Saint Jerome. How is that a saint?
You've got shitty mothers all over America who would love to dump their kids and travel.

Amy Bloom

#7. The afterlife is all about overlapping planes. We all live in the same physical space, but on different metaphysical levels, and someone who's passed before you might have reached a consciousness you haven't yet.

Jodi Picoult

#8. In the end when you get your master back, you realize it's got absolutely nothing to do with what you thought it was going to be when you started.

King Khan

#9. Anywhere where there are humans around is bound for destruction at some point in time, even paradise.

Jim Tan

#10. I feel like a teenager myself, so I appreciate it when the kids think you're all right.

John C. Reilly

#11. If we want to make friends, let's greet people with animation and enthusiasm.

Dale Carnegie

#12. I say to you: Make perfect your will. / I say: take no thought of the harvest, / But only of proper sowing.

T. S. Eliot