Ghalib Enterprises Quotes & Sayings

We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment. Punishment is what you do to someone; discipline is what you do for someone. — Zig Ziglar

A little smile on your face, because you'd just untangled a new translation." He cleared his throat. "Like this one. Tumi amar jeeboner dhruvotara." She tilted her head, puzzling over the phrase. "That's not Hindustani." "Bengali. It means 'You are my life's bright star' in Bengali." The sweet words were edged with frustration, not tenderness. His knuckles cracked. "Obviously, I was saving that one. For the right morning. — Tessa Dare

If I had had any sense, I'd have quit and taken a working job. The only trouble with that would be that I wouldn't have been working for the Old Man any longer. That made the difference. Not that he was a soft boss. He was quite capable of saying, "Boys, we need to fertilize this oak tree. Just jump in that hole at its base and I'll cover you up." We'd have done it. Any of us would. And the Old Man would bury us alive, too, if he thought that there was as much as a 53 percent probability that it was the Tree of Liberty he was nourishing. — Robert A. Heinlein

As with life's finer things, Poetry is created to be savored, not consumed. — Branch Isole

Nowhere is it more true that "prevention is better than cure," than in the case of Parasitic Diseases. — Rudolf Leuckart

How can they whip cheese? — Arthur Miller

I thought it was her wicked stepmother who poisoned her ... '
' ... Turned out the wicked stepmother had an alibi.'
' ... Seems she was off poisoning someone else at the time. Chance in a million, really. It was just bad luck. — John Connolly

Historically, the East was more concerned with understanding the mind and the West was more involved in understanding matter. — Dalai Lama XIV

I come from a filmmaking tradition and a storytelling background. So somehow I've emerged like a mutant who can straddle both worlds. — Alex Gibney

I try to be as clear and simple as I can be in my illustrations so that the child can tell what is going on and what the emotions are. — Tomie DePaola

THE NAME OF THE WIND has everything fantasy readers like, magic and mysteries and ancient evil, but it's also humorous and terrifying and completely believable. As with all the very best books in our field, it's not the fantasy trappings (wonderful as they are) that make this novel so good, but what the author has to say about true, common things, about ambition and failure, art, love, and loss. — Tad Williams