Shemara Wikramanayake Quotes

#1. Men of success meet with tragedy. It was the will of God that I won the Olympics, and it was the will of God that I met with my accident. I accepted those victories as I accept this tragedy. I have to accept both circumstances as facts of life and live happily.

Abebe Bikila

#2. If you question any candid person who is no longer young, he is very likely to tell you that, having tasted life in this world, he has no wish to begin again as a "new boy" in another.

Bertrand Russell

#3. As a man, I have to accept responsibility for all the pain I've ever caused her and Rose'.

Mz. Lady P

#4. How you refill. Lying there. Something like happiness, just like water, pure and clear pouring in. So good you don't even welcome it, it runs through you in a bright stream, as if it has been there all along.

Peter Heller

#5. and i've learned to love loneliness because unlike you it never leaves

Beau Taplin

#6. I try to take B genre movies and treat them as if they're A dramas. Get the cinematographers, get the actors to do an A drama, but it just happens to be about aliens or ghosts or crazy people, or killers, or whatever it is.

M. Night Shyamalan

#7. She loved him too. That's why she let him go.

Peter S. Beagle

#8. It is hardly lonely in a nunnery, son, with other women. And God is there."
Morgause said, "I would rather dwell in a hermitage in the forest than in a house full of chattering ladies! If God is there, it must be hard for him to get a word in edgewise!

Marion Zimmer Bradley

#9. So if we assume we are not the only civilisation in the galaxy, then at least a few others must have arisen billions of years ahead of us. But where are they?

Brian Cox

#10. I do not believe that any book should be denied to the man who possesses the wisdom to understand it, Bruno, but that does not mean I am confused about where truth lies.

S.J. Parris

#11. Military men are the scourges of the world.

Guy De Maupassant

#12. Imagination without initiative would more properly be called idle daydreaming.

James Van Fleet

#13. Women want to wear what they do because of what goes on in their heads. Their size and shape have practically nothing to do with it.

Elizabeth Hawes