Debasish Roychowdhury Quotes & Sayings

The idea of not getting a gun is not because I'm afraid of guns, it's not because I think guns are wrong, it's because it's impractical, it's stupid and it's exactly what they want me to do. — Oscar Isaac

If souls continue to exist, how does the air contain them from eternity? — Marcus Aurelius

The context in which a photograph is seen affects the meaning the viewer draws from it. — Stephen Shore

A gambler must think of three main quantities, stake, odds, and prize. If the prize is very large, a gambler is prepared to risk a big stake. A gambler who risks his all on a single throw stands to gain a great deal. He also stands to lose a great deal, but on average high-stake gamblers are no better and no worse off than other players who play for low winnings with low stakes. An analogous comparison is that between speculative and safe investors on the stock market. In some ways the stock market is a better analogy than a casino, because casinos are deliberately rigged in the bank's favour (which means, strictly, the high-stakes players will on average end up poorer than low-stake players; and low-stake players poorer than those who don't gamble at all. — Richard Dawkins

A good browser, apps, good camera, and fast networking in your smartphone is just expected today. — Thorsten Heins

What avail all your scholarly accomplishments and learning, compared with wisdom and manhood? To omit his other behavior, see whata work this comparatively unread and unlettered man wrote within six weeks. Where is our professor of belles-lettres, or of logic and rhetoric, who can write so well? — Henry David Thoreau

Sometimes people run out and read a lot of books, but they don't absorb anything from them. They want to read the next popular book. — Echo Bodine

My mission is not to make him happy and bear his children and be his wife. My mission is to kill him. — Amy Engel

We could do it, you know," Gale says quietly.
"What?" I ask.
"Leave the district. Run off. Live in the woods. You and I, we could make it," says Gale.
I don't know how to respond. This idea is so preposterous. — Suzanne Collins

The best convent for a woman is the seclusion of her own home. There she may find her vocation and fight her battles, and there she may learn the reality and the earnestness of life. — Elizabeth Prentiss

I did what I always do when I meet a beautiful woman," Kingsley said with a shrug. "I fucked her. — Tiffany Reisz