Benipal Singer Quotes & Sayings

In a field like philosophy, where understanding involves not so much the reception of knowledge but rather a transformation of the receiver itself, so that the receiver, which is to say the student, can generate the knowledge for him- or herself, then the physical presence of the teacher is essential. — Rebecca Goldstein

I cannot just write a frivolous book, a la-di-da book. Everything isn't la-di-da. There is something that's going to pull you up short. I want to reassure young readers. I want to comfort them, to not fear the unexpected. — Sharon Creech

It's crazy because people expect you to be funny all the time and every day is not a funny day. I go to funerals and people are like 'tell a joke' and 'say one of your lines in a movie.' It's a funeral, man! — Chris Tucker

You cannot teach a person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness. — Galileo Galilei

I knew a homeless guy who'd give all the copper coins that people gave him to charity. So I think there's something that makes us want to give. For me, it's quite a selfish luxury: you feel enlivened, deepened and self-nurtured by generosity. — Tamsin Greig

Looking back on the God my friend believed in, he seems a little erratic, not entirely unlike her father - God as borderline personality. — Anne Lamott

When I went to the moon I was a pragmatic test pilot. But when I saw the planet Earth floating in the vastness of space the presence of divinity became almost palpable and I knew that life in the universe was not just an accident. — Edgar Mitchell

Of all the pitfalls in our paths and the tremendous delays and wanderings off the track, I want to say that they are not what they seem to be. I want to say that all that seems like fantastic mistakes are not mistakes, all that seems like error
is not error; and it all has to be done. That which seems like a false step is the next step. — Agnes Martin

I felt a premonitory concern they would never revisit it. — Patrick DeWitt

The truth is hidden in books. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I believe in something transcendent, but I've yet to meet someone with a convincing label for it. — Alex Mar

If you invent the Mini Cooper, pour all your energy and passion into it and it gets made, you should be on a roll. In the film industry you have to start again the next day. — Estelle Morris

Hurrah I awake from yesterday
Alive but the war is here to stay
So my love Caterina and me
Decide to take our last walk
Through the noise to the sea
Not to die but to be reborn
Away from a land so battered and torn ...
Forever ... — Jimi Hendrix

I was not predicting the future, I was trying to prevent it. — Ray Bradbury