Alokananda Dasgupta Quotes & Sayings

Fermentation and civilization are inseparable. — John Ciardi

Torment yourself as little as possible, then you'll torment me less. — Franz Kafka

He reached now and ran one of Gretchen's soft ears through his gnarled, bent fingers, like silk through barbwire. "And I never saw it until I started with Gretchen. Got her to sit one day. The same day, she looked a long time at me and at a piece of cookie" - and here she perked up, ears more alert with the word "cookie" - "in my hand, and she saw the cookie and my eyes and then she sat. Clean and down. As much as if she'd said, 'I'll sit and then you give me that piece of cookie,' and she did and I did and it was the first time I knew I had been wrong all along. I never trained one animal. Not once . . ." "They trained you. — Gary Paulsen

Married?" I asked, being ineptly sneaky.
"Nope. Gay," Sam flatly stated, being honest and not sneaky at all. How can you not like a man like that?
I almost choked on a green bean. Before I could stop myself, the words were out of my mouth. "And I'm sure the gay world is happy as hell about it."
Jason & Sam — John Inman

The American people rightly look to their military leaders to be not only skilled in the technical aspects of the profession of arms, but to be men of integrity — J. Lawton Collins

The problem with role models is they teach you roles. — Joe Hill

Never ask a baker what went into a pie. Just eat. — George R R Martin

There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation. What's done in private between adults doesn't concern the Criminal Code. — Pierre Trudeau

It must be admitted that science has its castes. The man whose chief apparatus is the differential equation looks down upon one who uses a galvanometer, and he in turn upon those who putter about with sticky and smelly things in test tubes. — Gilbert Newton Lewis