Alla Rakha Quotes & Sayings

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men? — Vincent Van Gogh

What Batu thought Eric should say to Charley, if he really liked her: "Come live with me. Come live at the All-Night."
What Eric thought about saying to Charley: "If you're going away, take me with you. I'm about to be twenty years old, and I've never been to college. I sleep days in a storage closet, wearing someone else's pajamas. I've worked retail jobs since I was sixteen. I know people are hateful. If you need to bite someone, you can bite me. — Kelly Link

All successful people learn that success is buried on the other side of frustration. — Tony Robbins

Society in its boundless ignorance ridicules the caterpillar but praises the butterfly. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Shakespeare himself spoke of Heaven using wars as a punishment for perversities, lusts and passive barbarianism: If that the heavens do not their visible spirits Send quickly down to calm these vile offenses, It will come Humanity must perforce prey on itself, Like monsters of the deep. — Fulton J. Sheen

History is guided by leaders in turn affected by the sentiments of their population. Such sentiments are cyclical, allowing for predictions of a nation's fall. — Will Slatyer

I'd love to think that people in the future would gather in theatres, at conventions, and in darkened rooms, and read it out to each other. — Neil Gaiman

Everyone is indeed crazy, but the craziest are the ones who don't know they're crazy... — Paulo Coelho

I would say the universe has a purpose. It's not there just somehow by chance. — Roger Penrose

My parents, like others of "The Greatest Generation" who lived through the Great Depression and World War II, wanted to provide the best possible life for their children. My mother and father both attended college but dropped out to earn a living during the Depression, working the rest of their lives at blue-collar work. — Dan Millman

I appreciate very much Vilayat Khan, the sitar player, and Bismillah Khan, the shehnai player; and among the tabla players, of course, Alla Rakha, Kishan Maharaja, and all these people. — Ravi Shankar