Bidisha Bezbaruah Quotes & Sayings

Reading is a gymnasium for the imagination where people can work out, get ready for the shocks of existence. For me, the intimate teachers have not only taught me how to make things, they have represented some qualities of mind and mindfulness that I would like to have. — Robert Hass

Acting is a precarious business. I have had periods where I felt like I couldn't get arrested, but you have to see it as a long game. — Ewen Bremner

This cannot be the United States being the air force for Shia militias, or a Shia on Sunni Arab fight. — David Petraeus

All this time, Lev ever realized what he needed. He did not need to be adored or pitied. He needed to be forgiven. Not by God, who is all forgiving. Not by people like Marcus and Pastor Dan, who would always stand by his side. He needed to be forgiven by an unforgiving world. — Neal Shusterman

As we
dwell here between two mysteries, of a soul within and an ordered
Universe without, so among us are granted to dwell certain men of more
delicate intellectual fibre than their fellows
men whose minds have, as
it were, filaments to intercept, apprehend, conduct, translate home to us
stray messages between these two mysteries — Arthur Quiller-Couch

He was so honest you could play craps with him over the phone. — Earl Wilson

were we two following our widely parted roads towards one point in the mysterious future, at which we were to meet once more? — Wilkie Collins

I nodded in approval, turned around and opened the door, and stepped into the hall. I walked past the receptionist, smiling at her shocked face when she told me in a superficial voice to have a nice day, and I gave her a parting gift - my middle finger. — J.A. Saare

Since Winston cannot express himself openly in society for fear of punishment, the diary becomes an important medium for him to express his true feelings about the state and the Party. — Trisha Lively

...buzzing with the kind of commanding energy that felled trees and whistled teakettles.. — Shari Goldhagen

Scientifically speaking, the flesh was melted off the world. His body was macerated until only the nerve fibers were left. It was spread like a veil upon a rock. — Virginia Woolf

Australia will always be closer to the U.S. than she is to China because our values and political traditions are much closer. — John Howard