Ananya Ashok Quotes & Sayings

Knowing a great deal about what is in the world art, catastrophe, the beauties of nature through photographic images, people are frequently disappointed, surprised, unmoved when the see the real thing. For photographic images tend to subtract feeling from something we experience at first hand and the feelings they do arouse are, largely, not those we have in real life. Often something disturbs us more in photographed form than it does when we actually experience it. — Susan Sontag

Of course, the diary helps me as well. 'That wasn't your position on July 7, 1991,' I'll remind Hugh an hour after we've had a fight. I'd have loved to rebut him sooner, but it takes awhile to look these things up. — David Sedaris

Great experiences are built on a foundation of bad experiences. — Tim Fargo

Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret. — Matthew Arnold

I haven't frequented a nail salon in a long time. — Hope Davis

Our solar system is fantastically bizarre. There are worlds with features we never imagined. Storms larger than planets, moons with under-surface oceans, lakes of methane, worldlets that swap places ... and that's just at Saturn. — Phil Plait

They really can't imagine what my voice is like. Every time I sing a song, they are very surprised. — Coco Lee

We're all idiots when we're young. We don't think we are, but we are. So we should be. — Helen Mirren

We don't need more jobs. We need a better way to equip people for what they're meant to do. — Jeff Goins

If you hear some bad collectivistic notions, chances are that they came
from [modern] liberals. But if you hear or read something outrageously,
god-awfully collectivistic, you may be sure that the author is a conservative. — Isabel Paterson

Pride lets a man be skewered on the point of other people's expectations. — Mark Lawrence

Of all sciences there is none where first appearances are more deceitful than in politics. — David Hume

One of the most amazing things about elephants mourning in the wild is their ability to grieve hard, but then truly, unequivocally, let go. Humans can't seem to do that. I've always thought it's because of religion. We expect to see our loved ones again in the next life, whatever that might be. Elephants don't have that hope, only the memories of this life. Maybe that's why it is easier for them to move on. — Jodi Picoult