Istoica Quotes & Sayings

Education is what remains when what is learned has been taken away. — Mark Twain

Tis the good reader that makes the good book. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

She might have been there for you in the aftermath, but I was there when everything came crashing down. — Megan Duke

We made a film about the need for silence and withdrawal ... and here we are at the epicentre of noise and excitement. Life is full of surprises. — Pawel Pawlikowski

I wanted to write something that was very entertaining to read. The hardest part of this novel [The Yoga of Max's Discontent] was how to make a deeply spiritual transformation journey page-turning and adventurous. That was the hardest part to crack for me. — Karan Bajaj

We have built tens of thousands of schools, clinics and rural roads. — Meles Zenawi

Is one human? Or merely alive? Like a blade of grass equal to all existance in the moment it is torn? Yes. If pain is fundament, then a blade of grass can know all there is. — Norman Mailer

about the biting white ants that moved in menacing ribbons over the plains, or the vipers or the sun, which sometimes pulsed so brightly it seemed to want to flatten you or eat you alive. — Paula McLain