Quotes About Malacca

#1. Malacca is such a rest after the crowds of Japan and the noisy hurry of China! Its endless afternoon remains unbroken except by the dreamy, colored, slow-moving Malay life which passes below the hill. There is never any hurry or noise.

Isabella Bird

#2. I remember dawn coming up over the Strait of Malacca; ragamuffin kids on the dock in Sumatra laughing as they pelted us with bananas; collecting dead flying fish off the deck and bringing them to our sweet, fat, toothless Danish cook to fry up for breakfast.

Christopher Buckley

#3. Malacca fascinates me more and more daily. There is, among other things, a mediaevalism about it. The noise of the modern world reaches it only in the faintest echoes; its sleep is almost dreamless. Its sensations seem to come out of books read in childhood.

Isabella Bird

#4. The risks of piracy spreading beyond the Red Sea and Indian Ocean, off the Somali coast, and in the Straits of Malacca and Singapore and beyond are substantial.

Peter Middlebrook

#5. I may not know what love is," he said, "but, by God, at least I've never gotten drunk by myself.

Kurt Vonnegut

#6. The agenda well in advance; the questions that would be asked, the replies that would be

Jeffrey Archer

#7. Control your thoughts to define your life.

Debasish Mridha

#8. After I die, I shall return to earth as a gatekeeper of a bordello and I won't let any of you enter.

Arturo Toscanini

#9. I want our people to be like a molave tree, strong and resilient, standing on the hillsides, unafraid of the rising tide, lighting and the storm, confident of its strength.

Manuel L. Quezon

#10. What did they feed the lions and tigers with in the ark, sir?

Terry Pratchett

#11. The state of radio is not great. It's like playing the lottery. The chances of hitting are mind boggling slim.

Teddy Thompson

#12. It is not unusual to sift
through ashes
and find an unburnt picture

Nikki Giovanni

#13. We should be individualizing instruction, utilizing that data to actually give teachers the tools necessary to meet the needs of a very diverse group of kids which exists in every class.

Wendy Kopp

#14. My spiritual life is an interesting thing. It's pretty private. I was raised Catholic in the Baptist Bible belt, so my spirituality was challenged and very much a private thing and it continues to be.

Kelli O'Hara

#15. Hell is being alone.

Barry Lyga

#16. I have often thought that my work with wildlife taught me the meaning of patience, and my work with the big trees taught me the meaning of humility, and my work with the ice has taught me the meaning of mortality.

James Balog

#17. My photographs at best hold only a small length, but through them I would suggest and criticize and illuminate and try to give compassionate understanding.

W. Eugene Smith

#18. Bev Pettersen writes with flair and a down-to-earth warmth that will make you smile and sigh with contentment.

Julianne MacLean

#19. When are you going to trust me Max?" asked Fang.
"When I go completely bonkers," I laughed.

James Patterson