Quotes About Sri Lankan Politics

#1. It took you long enough to answer your phone." "It's my phone, Mr. Secretary. Sometimes I don't answer it at all.

Robert A. Heinlein

#2. Women love firefighters so much because it's like a knight in shining armor kind of thing.

Taylor Kinney

#3. She wondered what she would do or say if someone walked through the archway, but it was night, and the nights here were very long. There was room in them.

James S.A. Corey

#4. Harry Dresden - I take responsibility for more impossible situations in the first twenty-four hours of being dead than most people do all day.

Jim Butcher

#5. I want people to leave the theater wrestling with the idea that our pain - physical, emotional, and spiritual pain - is more than just a condition that needs to be silenced, numbed, or "fixed."

Karyn Kusama

#6. What goes on inside a star is better understood than one might guess from the difficulty of having to look at a little dot of light through a telescope, because we can calculate what the atoms in the stars should do in most circumstances.

Richard P. Feynman

#7. Dying is not the real tragedy. Forgetting is.

Samantha Sotto

#8. Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration.

DeWitt Clinton

#9. I believe nature is a force of good. Good is not only a concept, it is a spirit

Paul Stamets

#10. Every Sri Lankan, and almost every visitor to Sri Lanka, carries a longing for the place in some small form - hiraeth, the Welsh call it - wherever they go and whatever their background. It binds them however much the war and politics might try to divide them.

Romesh Gunesekera

#11. Being disabled doesn't have to be a disadvantage.

Oscar Pistorius

#12. They took a survey: Why do men get up in the middle of the night? Ten percent get up to go to the bathroom and 90 percent get up to go home.

Rodney Dangerfield

#13. This is the essence of science fiction, the conceptual dislocation within the society is generated in the author's mind, transferred to paper, and from paper it occurs as a convulsive shock in the reader's mind, the shock of dysrecognition.

Philip K. Dick

#14. Once as I sat painting, I became aware of a man's face hovering near me, moving closer and closer to the panel I was working on. When he spoke he said, 'That is a fantastic brush!

Robert Genn

#15. I think working on Shakespeare was a big part of my time at drama school. I'm so glad that I got to know Shakespeare and got a chance to play great parts in Shakespeare, because it really teaches you - or taught me, anyway - everything.

Andre Holland