Sleepless In Peckham Quotes

#1. I want to have an epic life. I want to tell my life with big adjectives. I want to forget all the grays in between, and remember the highlights and the dark moments.

Isabel Allende

#2. You cannot transpose the U.S. system on Turkey, and the Turkish system on France etc. You have to understand the people and their culture. That's leadership.

Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa

#3. I do feel very strongly that this is one of the things which people need encouragement to sort out, because I have this very strong feeling that everybody is probably a genius at something, it's just a question of finding this.

Diana Wynne Jones

#4. In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows. Nature says,
he is my creature, and maugre all his impertinent griefs, he shall be glad with me

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#5. I'd rather be a hopeless romantic than a skeptic, because while the hopeless romantic may get burned many times, the skeptic will never really experience love.

Kealohilani

#6. But beyond all that, the question that is continually begged is why isn't America leading the way toward total abolition of nuclear weapons.

Dennis Kucinich

#7. Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.

Samuel Beckett

#8. The Marines don't have any race problems. They treat everybody like they're black.

Daniel James Jr.

#9. He who says that someone isn't himself is a victim of statistics.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#10. When I was drunk I wanted to get sober and when I was sober I wanted to get drunk,' John L. says; 'I lived that way for years, and I submit to you that's not livin that's a fuckin death-in-life.

David Foster Wallace

#11. Nothing is worth having if it isn't worth showing off ...

Thabang Gideon Magaola

#12. You never stop being a parent, Adam, no matter how old or wise your child becomes you'll see.

Robert Charles Wilson