Buddhadev Guha Quotes & Sayings

You are not a rug ... everyone may try to walk all over you, but you do not have to lie there and take it! — Linda Poindexter

If it's stage, the two most important artists are the actor and the playwright. If it's film, THE most important person is the director. The director says where the camera goes. — Brad Dourif

From Genesis to Revelation, holy text is all about relationships and the limitless flavors of those relationships. It is the duty of mankind to tap into our women's unique talents
their genius for 'relationships.'
pg vii — Michael Ben Zehabe

The problem with love is not what we feel but what we wish we felt when we began to feel we should feel something. — Nikki Giovanni

He could hear church bells as he drowsed, both from the civil station and from the missionaries out beyond the slaughter house--different bells and rung with
different intent, for one set was calling firmly to Anglo-India, and the other feebly to mankind.
He did not object to the first set; the other he ignored, knowing their inefficiency. — E. M. Forster

What are you two doing?"
"Dusting!" Kami exclaimed.
The woman snorted. "As if I didn't know."
"I assure you, we weren't canoodling," Kami said.
"Really," the woman said. "Then may I ask what you were doing?"
"You caught us," Jared announced. "Totally - uh - canoodling. The laundry room was occupied by fellow canoodlers, so we took a chance. — Sarah Rees Brennan

You have lost all delight in life. Ahead is a large array of blind alleys. You are half-deliberately, half-desperately cutting off your grip on creative life. You are becoming a neuter machine. You cannot love, even if you knew how to begin to love. Every thought is a devil, a hell-if you could do a lot of things over again, ah, how differently you would do them! You want to go home, back to the womb. You watch the world bang door after door in your face, numbly, bitterly. You have forgotten the secret you knew, once, ah, once, of being joyous, of laughing, of opening doors. — Sylvia Plath

I didn't know who I was any longer, so I just was. — John Duover

Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop. — Lewis Carroll

Every good mathematician is at least half a philosopher, and every good philosopher is at least half a mathematician. — Gottlob Frege

Without community, there is no liberation. — Audre Lorde

I don't want to be a PULSATING PIECE OF PROTOPLASM! — Roz Chast

When you're in your twenties you always think that 30 is a long ways off, and maybe you'll have things in line when you hit that number - maybe own a house or be married. — Hamilton Leithauser