Srilal Weerasooriya Quotes

#1. The joy I feel is immense; it burns inside me as though I have swallowed a piece of the sun.

Edith Pattou

#2. All effort at originality must end either in the quaint or the monstrous. For no man knows himself as an original; he can only believe it on the report of others.

Washington Allston

#3. There's also something about ageing and the concomitant awareness of the fleeting nature of existence that tends to make you less worried about being ridiculous, and less judgemental about the quality of ridiculousness in others.

Tom Cox

#4. I believe in the complete freedom of thought and speech - alike for the humblest man and the mightiest, and in the utmost freedom of conduct that is consistent with living in organized
society.

H.L. Mencken

#5. I'm lucky. The best possible place in the world for training is Addis Ababa, so I am home all the time except when I am racing. I like to be there, near my family, my kids, also the real estate business I run with my wife.

Haile Gebrselassie

#6. None of us would choose to be Sisyphus; yet in a sense, we all are.

Joko Beck

#7. Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities.

Anna Deavere Smith

#8. I really just love reading. It's my favorite thing, performing my poems live. Reading by reading, I just kind of follow my nose.

Eileen Myles

#9. Hakan ducked his head inside. "You decent?"
Pilar couldn't contain her smile. "Give me a second and I won't be.

Erin Kellison

#10. Between 1776 and 1789, Americans replaced a government over them with a government under them. They have worried ever since about keeping it under. Distrust of its powers has been more common and more visible than distrust of the imperial authority of England ever was before the Revolution.

Edmund Morgan

#11. A Bad Omen is a warning. A sign to stop and reconsider. Proceed with caution.

Kelley Armstrong

#12. I think Americans are wonderful film actors - the best in the world - but they are a very contemporary race and they look forward all the time.

Julian Fellowes

#13. Do not seek to control other souls.

Lailah Gifty Akita