Bengalis In America Quotes & Sayings

I became a journalist to come as close as possible to the heart of the world. — Henry R. Luce

I was hunted once.'
Elena looked up to where she could see Raphael and Michaela talking on a high balcony overlooking the lawn, and wondered if either angel would mind if she simply coldcocked the idiot at her side - she didn't have time to deal with this kind of shit. 'Can't have been too bad if you're still here.'
'My mistress flayed the skin off my back and made it into a purse.'
She wondered how well that info would go down with the faction who ascribed heavenly origins to the angels. 'Yet you serve her even now.' It sounded like something the bitch goddess would do.
The vampire smiled, showed teeth. "It was a very nice purse." Then he finally walked away ...
'Immortality has way too many drawbacks,' she muttered, adding the possibility of becoming a purse to her mental list. — Nalini Singh

As mariners are guided into port by the shining of a star, so Christians are guided to heaven by Mary. — Thomas Aquinas

There are very few things in the body that nitric oxide doesn't regulate. — Ferid Murad

To have full and multiple criteria is the best way to decide who is best prepared to be on that Olympic team. — Ashley Wagner

The trouble with emergencies is," she said, "that I always put on my finest underwear and then nothing happens. — Zelda Fitzgerald

The association of children and fairy-stories is an accident of our domestic history. Fairy-stories have in the modern lettered world been relegated to the "nursery," as shabby or old-fashioned furniture is relegated to the play-room, primarily because the adults do not want it, and do not mind if it is misused. — J.R.R. Tolkien

In some ways I relied on that- someone to keep me thinking, keep me striving to do better, keep me from burying my head and praying it all worked out. — Kelley Armstrong

You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you. — Alan Watts

We are talking about someone who has lived. It must be honored in every respect. The fictional can take any kind of channel - according to the actor's marriage to the character. — Kate Mulgrew

A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander. — George William Curtis

This tradition doesn't exist for Bengalis, naming a son after father or grandfather, a daughter after mother or grandmother. This sign of respect in America ad Europe, this symbol of heritage and lineage, would be ridiculed in India. Within Bengali families, individual names are sacred, inviolable. They are not meant to be inherited or shared. — Jhumpa Lahiri

It is clear before God and man that the entire war on HIV and AIDS has not been waged with any degree of piety, responsibility and care. — Mangosuthu Buthelezi

Try smiling at people, you never know how one smile can affect their day. — Benjamin Bayani