Debdas Patnaik Quotes & Sayings

Rule of storytelling: When a character is shoved against a wall, shove them against a wall harder. — Aaron Sorkin

It is a sad truth, but one acknowledged by any person who can bother to read the law, that the inferior legal status of a woman in Europa means she is best protected by having a powerful family or, lacking that, by finding the strongest protector and marrying him. — Kate Elliott

Freedom to me is a luxury of being able to follow the path of the heart, to keep the magic in your life. Freedom is necessary for me in order to create, and if I cannot create I don't feel alive. — Joni Mitchell

I am inclined to think that one's education has been in vain if one fails to learn that most schoolmasters are idiots. — Hesketh Pearson

Every philosophy is complete in itself and, like a genuine work of art, contains the totality. Just as the works of Apelles and Sophocles, if Raphael and Shakespeare had known them, should not have appeared to them as mere preliminary exercises for their own work, but rather as a kindred force of the spirit, so, too reason cannot find in its own earlier forms mere useful preliminary exercises for itself. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

A ballerina's life can be glorious. But it does not get any easier. I don't think anyone must ever think about it getting easier. — Alicia Markova