Diwali Diya Quotes & Sayings

Appearances have enormous importance, Mr. Kessler. The creation and maintenance of appearances. Appearances govern. — David Quammen

We didn't have television until I was about eight years old, so it was either the movies or radio. A lot of radio drama. That was our television, you know. We had to use our imagination. So it was really those two things, and the comics, that I immersed myself in as a child. — Jessica Hagedorn

The foreign-language Oscar is something that doesn't go to the producer or the director; it goes to the country. — Deniz Gamze Erguven

Yet losing him seemed unbearable. He was the one she loved, the one she would always love, and as he leaned in to kiss her, she gave herself over to him. While he held her close, she ran her hands over his shoulders and back, feeling the strength in his arms. She knew he'd wanted more in their relationship than she'd been willing to offer, but here and now, she suddenly knew she had no other choice. There was only this moment, and it was theirs. — Nicholas Sparks

I needed to be perfect.
Perfect was my only option. — Kiera Cass

And he wanted more than anything else, deeply and compassionately, to be of help; and he could be of help in this age, and was of help, because artist and philosopher as well as theologian, he cared for culture as well as for Christ.6 — Paul Tillich

Still, it's cool," said Ron, a little defensively. "And from what they said, Dumbledore invented it himself!"
"I know, but surely he wouldn't have singled you out in his will just to help us turn out the lights! — J.K. Rowling

You're right, I have taught you nothing. I could teach you nothing. Everything that you needed was already there. You simply needed the word for it. Some need Kali and Shiva to destroy the world so they may see past the illusion to divinity in them, others need Krishna to drive them to the place where they may perceive what is eternal in them. Others may perceive the Divine Spark in themselves only by realizing through enlightenment that the spark resides in all things, and in that they find kinship. But because the Divine Spark resides in all, does not mean that all will discover it. Your dharma is not to learn, Joshua, but to teach — Christopher Moore

And wit's the noblest frailty of the mind. — Thomas Shadwell

If you don't appear
at all one day they think you're lazy
or dead. — Frank O'Hara

I think too much of the music industry is for the lawyer and accountant mentality. — Chuck D

Ask yourself: given everything you have to do, is there a way that we can make this better? — Daniel Ek

Reverie is the groundwork of creative imagination; it is the privilege of the artist that with him it is not as with other men an escape from reality, but the means by which he accedes to it. — W. Somerset Maugham

It's very difficult not to come across as a white supremacist when there are so many black inferiorists around. — David Bullard