Bhargavi Venkataraman Quotes & Sayings

Now, this was a combination that she wouldn't dare to dream of, even in her worst nightmare. — B. Barmanbek

I think writers can get a little melodramatic sometimes about their work, and it helps me not to do that, to just say, "Well, this is how I make a living, and I need to become a very good craftsman." — Donald Miller

Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness. — Athenaeus

It is never too late to give up your prejudices — Henry David Thoreau

Being a movie star is stressful as hell. You've got to do crunches all day long. You've got to get up and learn lines. — Thomas Lennon

One of the most brilliant Russian writers of the twentieth century, Yevgeny Zamyatin belongs to the tradition in Russian literature represented by Gogol, Leskov, Bely, Remizov, and, in certain aspects of their work, also by Babel and Bulgakov. It is a tradition, paradoxically, of experimenters and innovators. Perhaps the principal quality that unites them is their approach to reality and its uses in art - the refusal to be bound by literal fact, the interweaving of reality and fantasy, the transmutation of fact into poetry, often grotesque, oblique, playful, but always expressive of the writer's unique vision of life in his own, unique terms. — Mirra Ginsburg

Things don't happen for a reason, things give you reasons to make things happen. — Jon R.

Living in Maryland, I saw that the opportunities were far greater in California than back home. — Christina Milian

The easiest thing in the world is to succeed. You can't help it if you follow the rules and play the game the best way you know how according to yourself, instead of according to the one next to you, or above you, or somewhere away from you. — George Matthew Adams

Knowledge extends in promontories and bays; or to put it vertically rather than horizontally, the strata from remote to recent never lie so unbroken that we cannot find some line of unconformity where the imagination must make a leap. There are so many horizons, geological and human, where the evidence is missing or incomplete. — Wallace Stegner

I never knew what top golf was like until I turned professional. Then it was too late. — Steve Melnyk

I think of two friens who advise me on various methods of suicide. what better proof of loving camaraderie? — Charles Bukowski