Arindam Chaudhuri Quotes & Sayings

Writing is my passion. It is a way to experience the ecstatic. The root understanding of the word ecstasy - "to stand outside" - comes to me in those moments when I am immersed so deeply in the act of thinking and writing that everything else, even flesh, falls away. — Bell Hooks

Singing and acting on a show is like theater; it doesn't get any better. — Shanola Hampton

I used to think I was in love with Mia because she was in love with me. Now when I watch her strutting down the runway, twisting and flouncing the way her mother trained her, I know she's just a human coat hanger. A wired body I hold late at night and try to fit into. — Laurie Perez

Anyone can desire anything, but if you're not going to commit, you're not getting it. — Cassey Ho

Koan ninety-seven: "Do unto otters as you would have them do unto you." Hmm. No real help there. Besides, he'd occasionally been unsure that he'd written that one down properly, although it certain had worked. He'd always left aquatic mammals well alone, and they had done the same to him. — Terry Pratchett

Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency. — Alan W. Watts

If I were to read about me purely on Twitter, I wouldn't know what to make of me. — Jeremy Scahill

That the women of the Old Testament were dressed with oriental richness there is no doubt, nor are they censured for so arraying themselves. — Charlotte Mary Yonge

Good medicine always tastes bad. — Ron Hall

By comparison, George W. Bush was light and breezy and apparently forgot during one debate that Social Security was a federal program. In fact, his depth, and his unfamiliarity with the complexities of the issues, to say nothing of the simple declarative sentence, worked remarkably to his advantage. — Charles P. Pierce

It sounds not only disagreeable but also paradoxical, yet it must nevertheless be said that anyone who is to be really free and happy in love must have surmounted his respect for women and have come to terms with the idea of incest with his mother or sister. — Sigmund Freud

I had got to the dawn of the beautiful not caring, but fully aware, stage, which degenerates so imperceptibly into the doing something unpermissible stage. — Caitlin Thomas

You're not Adam, asshole. You're the snake. — Ruthie Knox