Arindam Ghosh Quotes & Sayings

There's no free lunch. If you want an industrial economy, you need energy. If you want energy, it will produce pollution. You can have it in two forms. You can have it dissipated in the atmosphere - like carbon dioxide - which then you cannot recover, or you can have the waste concentrated in one small space like nuclear. That is far easier to deal with. The idea that you can be able to create renewable energy at a price anywhere near the current price for oil or gas or coal is a fantasy. — Charles Krauthammer

Broken?" I laughed. "Nah, princess. I'm a shattered fucking mess. — Stevie J. Cole

When your life burns to ash before you, it's hard to find hope in the embers of what remains. — Darby Briar

Thinking of the anguish of his final days and my own helplessness in the face of it, makes everything I have done, everything I want to do, seem as unsubstantial as the little vows you make yourself as you're going to sleep, the ones you've already forgotten by the time you wake up. — Khaled Hosseini

Home"

It would take forever to get there
but I would know it anywhere:

My white horse grazing in my blossomy field.
Its soft nostrils. The petals
falling from the trees into the stream.

The festival would be about to begin
in the dusky village in the distance. The doe
frozen at the edge of the grove:

She leaps. She vanishes. My face -
She has taken it. And my name -

(Although the plaintive lark in the tall
grass continues to say and to say it.)

Yes. This is the place.
Where my shining treasure has been waiting.
Where my shadow washes itself in my fountain.

A few graves among the roses. Some moss
on those. An ancient

bell in a steeple down the road
making no sound at all
as the monk pulls and pulls on the rope. — Laura Kasischke

It's magic. All of a sudden, the idea just pops up. Who knows how? — James Westphal

Can you tie your cherry stem into a knot, boys? — Kali Willows

The only valid rule for a work of art is that it be true to itself. — Marty Rubin

Laughter is very infectious, and why it should be so is a most interesting neurological problem. But it also has other, more physiological, benefits. Apparently it boosts the immune system, reduces stress hormones, massages the heart and diaphragm and engenders a 'feel good' factor. — Semir Zeki

Everyone was doing that in their own way, rejecting things and moving on. It's just a part of discovering who you are; it's nothing special. — David Byrne

Life is Death. Death is Life. Teach the deserving. Teach with passion. Learn always. Assume Nothing. — Shaolin

Why do you always come in to kiss me while I'm on the toilet?" I asked.
"Makes us feel close to you," Chuck said, surprised I would ask. "Peeing is one of the special things we share. — Merrill Markoe

I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired. — Zane Grey