Ananyaa Jaganathan Quotes & Sayings

Because friend was encompassing, and here it encompassed so much, including the contradictions. — Meg Wolitzer

The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming? — W. Somerset Maugham

For our discussion is about no ordinary matter, but on the right way to conduct our lives. — Plato

I don't understand - why won't you talk to me?
You sit in the corner all day and write in your book and look at everything but my face. You have so much to say to a piece of paper but I'm standing right here and you don't even acknowledge me. Juliette, please - — Tahereh Mafi

Art can play a major role. I look at art as an alternative source of energy, the same way we might look at wind or solar or lithium batteries. — Saul Williams

America had many other discoverers besides Columbus, but he seems to have made more satisfactory arrangements with the historians than any of the others. — Bill Nye

Put an asshole on a plane in Boston an asshole gets off in Seattle — Stephen King

She almost smiled at the justice of it, at her ultimate foolishness in thinking that she could uncage chaos and then control it. — Dan Simmons

Pearl Harbor is a two-hour movie squeezed into three hours, about how on December 7, 1941, the Japanese staged a surprise attack on an American love triangle. Its centerpiece is 40 minutes of redundant special effects, surrounded by a love story of stunning banality. The film has been directed without grace, vision, or originality, and although you may walk out quoting lines of dialog, it will not be because you admire them. — Roger Ebert

People from small towns have to have their edges roughed up to get along in the world. But as a street reporter, you learn quickly. — Bill Kurtis

Then everyone leaves, and you are left, each night, to your own devices with a crowd of interesting people - most of whom you don't know - sitting in the dark. — Anna Deavere Smith

I really hope my peers appreciate and respect what I'm doing. — Shania Twain

My mom gets so upset at me when I say stuff in the press about anything political, and it drives me crazy because I say to my mom: 'I can't be on the side of any sort of war and I'm not going to be.' — Jake Shears

Writing starts with living.
- Rumors of Water: Thoughts on Creativity & Writing — L.L. Barkat