Top 494 Quotes & Sayings by Malaysian Authors

It can only be true love when you enable your other half to be better, to be the person they're destined to be.

I love my headscarf. I wear my head wrap every day with my hoop earrings.

A country without engineering skill and knowledge will never become a developed country.

Finding a good barber is like finding a good lawyer - you gotta go to the same guy.

The world is changing quickly and we must be ready to change with it or risk being left behind.

I've always been very interested in the question of how computation can fundamentally advance the things that we can see. This led me to have a fascination with medical imaging, especially things like MRI and scanning, and eventually computer graphics.

Aviation is for the common man. My goal is to enable everyone to fly. It shouldn't be only for the rich.

No matter how much good you do, there will always be a few per cent of people who don't support you.

I tried perming my hair by myself in lockdown. It came out looking ridiculous - my hair was so damaged and crispy.

In Asia, personal relationships are important, but you cannot personalise diplomacy.

We were constantly traveling between Malaysia and Singapore, which is connected by a bridge at the southernmost end of Malaysia. In fact, when I was a child, I had to go between countries twice a day to go to school, because I was living in Malaysia at the time but attending primary school in Singapore.

I have done many films across the globe and would love to be a part of Bollywood, but the script must have a strong character for me.

What I'm trying to do is get a change in the mindset so people move from a level of mere tolerance to total acceptance and eventually to celebrate diversity. If you feel comfortable with one another, it doesn't matter whether we live in which neighbourhood but we can interact with one another freely. It's a mindset.

I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.

It was like baptism by fire. There was no school for studying acting. You just have to take it upon yourself to learn from your peers. It's about opening your eyes, listening, and watching.

A lot of people tend to go into the music industry and be really - what do you call it? - oblivious to everything that comes with it.

It's very important that I'm approaching a character that I've either not played before, or I can give it a different take.

I just realized the best way to live your life is to just be you, as cliche as it sounds. I grew up trying to please everyone.

Early on, people told me I was making Chinese people look bad. I've been living with this accent. I had already been doing standup for a while. I knew my voice already. I myself never wanted to make my accent the butt of the joke. I never want it to be, 'I'm laughing at your accent.'

A lawyer wants to get his client off the hook. And even if he knows the client is guilty, he is going to find ways and means of getting him off the hook.

In Europe, they travel a lot lighter. I always joke that my Indonesian passengers bring their house and their neighbor's house.

Jews rule the world by proxy.

For me, beauty comes from natural happiness. I think that a woman glows, and a man, even, when they're healthy and they're happy.

Every time I choose to do a movie, I make the decision because of what I think I can learn from it.

In Asia, red is the colour of joy; red is the colour of festivities and of celebration. In Chinese culture, blue is the colour of mourning.

If you think about all the light that enters - that enters the lens of a camera, that's much more than a photo. The light field is all the higher-dimensional information that's lost in a regular photo. When we record all this information, that provides us the opportunity in software after the fact.

I used to be affected by criticism thrown at me, and I would get really down. But I got to a point where I just decided to go for it, no matter what negativity is around you.

The West only talks about how you can militarily defeat the terrorists, but terrorists are very difficult to defeat because they can appear anywhere.

When men have a smile on their faces, that does a lot for me.

Every time you do a movie, it's important for your career, your reputation.

We can work together to produce better footballers for both FK Sarajevo and maybe Cardiff City and maybe even to play for other clubs. We hope this will be well received by everybody and enhance good relations between Malaysia and Bosnia.

A lot of the songs are based on my previous relationship. It didn't work out. I lost him, and it ruined me. I had to learn to get back on my feet. I used that heartbreak to create something really beautiful.

To have a sense of style, it shows you know yourself. People like that.

The world is shifting from a hegemonic era, where the United States dominated alone, to a multipolar system.

I started singing very early. I was six or seven years old, and I was singing along to TV commercials and figuring out, 'Oh, hey, I can sing in tune. This is really cool.' But the songwriting thing came much much later, when I was 19 years old.

America is the NBA of culture. So to have Asian people in the biggest entertainment market in the world, in Hollywood, is cool.

There's good economic progress in Malaysia. People have a lot to look forward to.

I've taken this year to concentrate fully on the promotion of 'The Lady.' This movie has been so meaningful; until we have premiered in every part of the world and encouraged as many people as possible to shine the spotlight on the Burmese people and Daw Suu, I will not have a next project.

I gathered as much reading material about Aung San Suu Kyi and about Burma as I could. And I read every article and every book she had written. I also had 200 hours of footage of her to watch. I tried to discover who were her heroes and where he desire and strength to pursue democracy in a non-violent fashion came from.

As a producer, what you want to do is make the next hit. But you also want to lead the audience into wanting to watch different movies. You have to vary your content.

If Australia wants to be a friend of Asia, it should stop behaving as if it is there to teach us how to run our country.

I kick and punch quite hard, and it surprises people.

The E.U.'s 500 million citizens enjoy the right to live and work in any of the Union's 27 member states.

We can transform the government and the economy, as well as democracy, in Malaysia.

If you were ever a ballerina, you know the pain: just to be able to look like it's all so light, but when they take off their shoes, it's all bloody.

As comedians, we work our whole lives hoping for a break.

If you have a great product but no one knows about it, it's history.

Independence means we enjoy freedom. We are not colonised by people. And we can govern our own country and develop it independently so that our people can live a better life.

Looking back now, I realise why, as prime minister of Malaysia, I was described as a dictator. There were many things I did which were typically dictatorial.

I use the 'Too Faced Chocolate Bar Eye Shadow' Palette every day. I've tried a bunch of stuff, but this is my favorite. For eyebrows, I use the 'Anastasia Beverly Hills Dipbrow' Pomade in Dark Brown, and for mascara, I don't use anything else but 'Urban Decay Perversion' Mascara.

My priority is to ensure peace and harmony in Malaysia. That is uppermost in my mind.

There might never be another 'Crouching Tiger.' There might be something that's even better than 'Crouching Tiger.'

Whatever what your job is, you want to do a job that matters.

The first one I did was an action film with Sammo Hung and George Lam, but I had the usual female role for that time: you know, damsel in distress, rescued by the hero.

I didn't take music seriously in the beginning. It just kind of a hobby to me. It was something that I love doing for fun.

MH370 is a Boeing 777 aircraft. It was built and equipped by Boeing. All the communications and GPS equipment must have been installed by Boeing. If they failed or have been disabled, Boeing must know how it can be done.

In Malaysia, we have a lot of divas, like Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey singers. And they were all so so talented, just very talented. For example, there's this one jazz singer, her name is Sheila Majid, and I was always singing her songs.

The working environment in L.A. is really refreshing, really good. Because in Malaysia, it's a small country - you end up working with the same people that you like and that you know.

Australia is not a safe place.

Democracy must be internally generated. You cannot force it from the top - it's not going to work.