Bilva Tree Quotes & Sayings

But 'why then publish?' There are no rewards
Of fame or profit when the world grows weary.
I ask in turn why do you play at cards?
Why drink? Why read? To make some hour less dreary.
It occupies me to turn back regards
On what I've seen or pondered, sad or cheery,
And what I write I cast upon the stream
To swim or sink. I have had at least my dream. — George Gordon Byron

What I do for a living is somewhat like mercenary prostitution ... I spend a lot of energy trying to find games to bring to alternate platforms, like Linux and MacOS, and in my free time, I work on various open source projects, and other freebies like that ... so I guess I'm a hooker with a heart of gold, sorta. — Ryan C. Gordon

Deliberately causing mayhem in Snape's Potions class was about as safe as poking a sleeping dragon in the eye. — J.K. Rowling

Twenty years ago, I was living in a lovely cottage on the edge of Dartmoor but I couldn't afford to run a car. — Mary Wesley

Ever man dies, but not every man truly lives — Ralph Barger

Gawd, this guy was hawt. Super hawt. He was giving off heat.

Josh was getting hard just looking at him.

He looked like that actor. In that show. The one where he was that guy. The hot guy. — Helen Louise Caroll

Artists, composers and writers...are bent upon capturing and reining in the insights of a fugitive imagination, always inclined to shoot off into the distance, before they can get away, and on bringing them back into the immediacy of material engagement. Like hunters, they too are dream-catchers. — Tim Ingold

Although I could lament in the language and feelings of David for Absalom, I am constrained to say, peace to his manes. Let us weep for the living, and not for the dead. — Andrew Jackson

We can hardly pride ourselves on being the world's preeminent democracy, after all, if the large numbers of citizens spend half their waking hours in what amounts, in plain terms, to a dictatorship. — Barbara Ehrenreich

Time is construct, in relativity every thing flows, no past or present, only the now. — Kate Atkinson

The challenge, whenever you create anything, is to persevere and push away the negative voices. And the more you accomplish, the louder they get. The key is to shut them off and trust in your heart where you're going. — Anne Bancroft

The light needs only our trust
And, of course, the darkness
To work its eternal alchemy. — Scott Hastie

The ground under the Bilva tree is very holy. Meditating here quickly brings about an awakening of the religious instinct. Shri Ramakrishna used to say so. — Swami Vivekananda