Dibakar Barman Quotes & Sayings

In a word, learning is decontextualized. We break ideas down into tiny pieces that bear no relation to the whole. We give students a brick of information, followed by another brick, followed by another brick, until they are graduated, at which point we assume they have a house. What they have is a pile of bricks, and they don't have it for long. — Alfie Kohn

Obamacare represents a shocking display of political arrogance. It's about time Washington started listening to Americans' common sense voices. — Fred Upton

Werewolf was soooooo in her color wheel. — Dakota Cassidy

It was also true that if the Lees were still in Laos, Lia would probably have died before she was out of infancy, from a prolonged bout of untreated status epilepticus. American medicine had both preserved her life and compromised it. I was unsure which had hurt her family more. — Anne Fadiman

To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead. — Jeanette Winterson

Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never. — Marguerite Gardiner

We have a dysfunctional dream of the planet, and humans are mentally sick with a disease called fear. The symptoms of the disease are all the emotions that make humans suffer: anger, hate, sadness, envy, and betrayal. When the fear is too great, the reasoning mind begins to fail, and we call this mental illness. — Miguel Ruiz

To Have An Undying Hunger For God Is To Continually Proclaim His Demands Of Love — Sunday Adelaja

The white dogs with black spots were the worst. It wasn't so much their aggression; other dogs were sometimes even more aggressive. It was that they were - without question - the stupidest creatures on earth, and that was even if one included cats. It was useless to try reasoning with them, whatever language one chose. Worse, you could never tell when one of them would come at you. It was not in his nature to hate other dogs, but Benjy disliked Dalmatians the way some humans dislike men named Steve or Biff. — Andre Alexis

I haven't had to do too many, or many explicit ones. Everybody feels weird, and everybody is trying to tiptoe around and make you think they're not there. The last time I did a love scene, I couldn't keep a straight face. — Gretchen Mol

Our brains have this habit of quilting dreams from the fabrics of our lives. As a filmmaker, I get to do it for a living. — Peter Landesman