Asrama Quotes & Sayings

I was pretty impressed during the opening of one of my shows, when the five-year-old daughter of a well-known movie actress took a running jump at one of my paintings, like she was diving into a swimming pool. I preferred to treat her impulse as a compliment rather than insult. Sadly she hurt herself more than the painting. — James Nares

Giving up all notions about country, caste, blemishless community,asrama (status as a bachelor, family man, ascetic or one who has renounced the world) and associated matters, hold on to and practise always meditation upon the Self, your own natural state. — Ramana Maharshi

I found solitary confinement the most forbidding aspect of prison life. There is no end and no beginning; there is only one's mind, which can begin to play tricks. Was that a dream or did it really happen? One begins to question everything. — Nelson Mandela

his eyes flashing like dimes. — Gillian Flynn

Maybe I'll just stand here for the half hour and pretend to be a statue. "You were given an order, sub," he said softly.
Or not. — Cherise Sinclair

Very few people have actually read Freud, but everyone seems prepared to talk about him in that Woody Allen way. To read Freud is not as much fun. — Billy Collins

Men have a singular desire to be good without being good for anything, because, perchance, they think vaguely that so it will be good for them in the end. — Henry David Thoreau

A coincidence is just an explanation waiting to happen — Kate Atkinson

Pride eradicates all vices but itself. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Foucault is the Cagliostro of our time. — Camille Paglia

Although she was ashamed to admit it now, the darkness in him had been the largest part of his allure. It was such an anomaly, a contrast to what she'd known from life. It had made him dangerous. Exciting. Sexy. But that was a fantasy. This was real.
He suffered. And there was nothing sexy or thrilling about that. (Zsadists & Bella) — J.R. Ward

Fun is what you do for yourself. If somebody else does it, it's entertainment. — David Mamet

Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable. — Rene Daumal