Surinamer Quotes

#1. More than England to the British West Indian or even Holland to the Surinamer, France is the mother country to the Martiniquan.

V.S. Naipaul

#2. If you want to be a singer, you've got to concentrate on it twenty-four hours a day. You can't be a well driller, too. You've got to concentrate on the business of entertaining and writing songs. Always think different from the next person. Don't ever do a song as you heard somebody else do it.

Otis Redding

#3. When we lose people we love, we should never disturb their souls, whether living or dead. Instead. we should find consolation in an object that reminds you of them, something ... I don't know ... even an earring

Orhan Pamuk

#4. He who is proud of his knowledge, has gout in the wrong end.

Thomas Adams

#5. I read a lot of graphic novels - some of my favorites graphic novelists or artists are Rebecca Kraatz, Gabrielle Bell, Graham Roumieu, Tom Gauld, and Renee French.

Matthea Harvey

#6. I was an accomplice in my own frustration.

Peter Shaffer

#7. The glowing jewel says,
"Don't be fooled by my beauty -
the light of my face comes from
the candle of my spirit.
Every jewel says to you, "Be not satisfied with my beauty, for the light in my face derives from the candle of my awareness!

Rumi