Singapore Pioneer Poet Quotes

#1. My new world is etched in diamonds and sealed in gold, drowning in pretension.

Dawn Ius

#2. Nursing demands vigilance about people. The sights and smells that a patient offers, their movements and their offhand comments all contribute crucial information to understanding what they need. Training and experience heighten one's ability to see what needs to be seen.

Steven Amsterdam

#3. What makes me worry today is the alarming decline in the trust in democratic institutions - political parties, Parliaments, political leaders. Less and less people are going to the polls in most advanced democracies.

Ivan Krastev

#4. In the dark beside me, she smelled of sweat and sunshine and vanilla,

John Green

#5. The more you love what you do, the harder it is to do it well enough to get by yourself.

Marie Dressler

#6. The sun does not shine upon this fair earth to meet frowning eyes, depend upon it.

Charles Dickens

#7. I could do whatever I liked to do during the day. I didn't have to work in an office. I could work at home. I could work at my leisure. I worked 'til four in the morning. I worked with the TV and radio on - it was a great setup. I was a night person and still am.

Jack Kirby

#8. It may be that our cosmic curiosity ... is a genetically-encoded force that we illuminate when we look up and wonder.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#9. If I've got the right songs, I can weave a spell over everyone.

Richard Simmons

#10. Once
There was a quiet island,
With a name.
You must believe me
When I say that sunlight,
Impure but beautiful,
Broke upon the bay, silvered
The unrepentant, burning moon.

Edwin Thumboo

#11. It was so impossible to live life backward.

Maggie Stiefvater

#12. It seems to me to be kind of inescapable that one has to be interested in the issue of gender and gender equality. I don't really expect any credit for going in that direction. It's the only natural direction to go in. Why is it that some people don't see that as so patently obvious as it should be?

Amartya Sen

#13. To me fearless isn't not having fears, it's not that you're not afraid of anything. I think that being fearless is having a lot of fears, but you jump anyway.

Taylor Swift

#14. Being an actor is a much more structured life than being a musician.

Grant-Lee Phillips

#15. The whole journey was odd and dream-like
the roaring stream, the wet grey grass, the glimmering cliffs which they were approaching, and always the glorious, silently pacing beast ahead.

C.S. Lewis