Bhagavathi Quotes & Sayings

Moderation assures mediocrity
nice, safe. Mediocrity is for the mediocre
simple, okay. The intense rule; the mediocre follow. — Dave Draper

The letters are mixed up. U and I should be together. — Jodi Picoult

Her name is Mackenzie. She's got long blond hair and the biggest blue eyes you'll ever see. She's almost four. See her there? On the other end of the seesaw I'm currently riding. — Emma Chase

I don't like going to cities. I don't mind maybe being in a city sometimes for a few hours, but I pretty much don't like cities. I don't even like passing through them. — Will Oldham

Very important people have told me that they prefer good listeners to good talkers, but the ability to listen seems rarer than almost any other good trait. — Dale Carnegie

The route of least resistance is always crowded. — Steven Redhead

You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man. Well, that's because there's been so many can do it better'n I can, play the blues better'n me. I think a lot of them have told me things, taught me things. — B.B. King

Romance was beyond me: it required a form of personal mystery I couldn't manufacture and disliked in others. I couldn't pretend that my legs do not grow hair or that my body does not excrete a variety of foul substances or that my feet aren't flat as pancakes. I could not flirt and saw no purpose in flirting. I did not mind dressing up for strangers - when out at college parties or if we went up to London for the clubs - but in our rooms, within our intimacy, I could not be a girl, nor could I be anybody's baby, I could only be a female human. — Zadie Smith

If Gone With the Wind has a theme it is that of survival. What makes some people come through catastrophes and others, apparently just as able, strong, and brave, go under? It happens in every upheaval. Some people survive; others don't. What qualities are in those who fight their way through triumphantly that are lacking in those that go under? I only know that survivors used to call that quality 'gumption.' So I wrote about people who had gumption and people who didn't. — Margaret Mitchell

We ourselves are not something apart from our circumstances. What we are and where we are are one and the same. — Brad Warner

I only hear my own voice. When you start hearing other voices, then it's time to worry. — Matt Dillon