Birendra Nath Roychowdhury Quotes & Sayings

Platitudes and generalities roll of the human understanding like water from a duck — Claude C. Hopkins

You know, when a man is raped you never hear about what he was wearing. — George Takei

[On being a judge for the 1986 Booker Prize:] I got to the point where I couldn't read a laundry list without considering it for the Booker Prize. — Bernice Rubens

I'm vulnerable to criticism. Any artist is, because you work alone in your studio and, until recently, critics were the only way you'd get any feedback. — Howard Hodgkin

I have finally taught Dean that he can do anything he wants, become mayor of Denver, marry a millionairess, or become the greatest poet since Rimbaud. But he keeps rushing out to see the midget auto races — Jack Kerouac

My sister, Swede, who often sees to the nub, offered this: People fear miracles because they fear being changed
though ignoring them will change you also. Swede said another thing, too, and it rang in me like a bell: No miracle happens without a witness. Someone to declare, Here's what I saw. Here's how it went. Make of it what you will. — Leif Enger

Live simply so that others may simply live was marvelously observed by St. Elizabeth Seton . If this simple truth could only be programmed into the human DNA, imagine the possibilities. Until than, the education of the human heart is the answer and our only hope. — Adam Kovacevic

What is a logical mind? ... It is the antiseptic which destroys the bacilli of unreason whereby true happiness is vivified. — William John Locke

The spark of a genius exists in the brain of the truly creative man from the hour of his birth. True genius is always inborn and never cultivated, let alone learned. — Adolf Hitler

What the oil producer gets paid is about 16 percent. The majority of it is tax, which in fairness to the government of this country they have accepted and admitted. — Olusegun Obasanjo

My mission is to create a world where we can live in harmony with nature. — Jane Goodall

I think what I'm going to do is get more balance in my life to still be able to go out and play the hard rock 'n' roll and do what I like to do in music. — Joan Jett