Kodexplorer Quotes & Sayings

The canons of literary taste as they have hardened in the twentieth century leave little place for Rabelais. — Roger Shattuck

What mattered to me most when I was batting was feeling comfortable. As long as I felt comfortable, it didn't matter where I was playing or who I was playing against. If you make technical adjustments to cope with different conditions, there's a risk of making yourself feel uncomfortable and of thinking too much about your technique. I've always felt that I've batted best when my mind has been at the bowler's end of pitch, not at my end. There's no time to think about both ends at the same time. So in general it always seemed to me that If I was comfortable with my gear, it would allow my mind to be at the opposite end and I had a better chance of playing well. — Sachin Tendulkar

When the spirit moves me, I can do many wondrous things. — Van Morrison

Beyond the earth,
beyond the farthest skies
I try to find Heaven and Hell.
Then I hear a solemn voice that says:
Heaven and hell are inside. — Omar Khayyam

One of man's greatest obligations is anger. — Nikos Kazantzakis

A heightened sense of the observation of nature is one of the chief delights that have come to me through trying to paint. — Winston Churchill

I remember when I was writing my memoir and I was worried about what other people would think when they read it, and my mother, who can be this incredibly wise person, said that it really didn't matter because strangers who read it would never meet me anyway, and people I knew were aware of my secrets. — Katy Lederer

Language is not a handmaiden to perception; it is perception; it gives shape to what would otherwise be inert and dead. — Stanley Fish

Well, sometimes," Dane said, "Just because someone uses something wrong doesn't mean it's useless. — China Mieville

It's weird when you hear teachers call each other by their first names. It's like they're friends or something. — Brian Francis

Kolkata is a musical city. What I like about people here is the lack of diplomacy. Some of the best Indian classical musicians belong to this place. Kolkatans do not go by fashion, but by passion. — Sukhwinder Singh

A particular rule that seems to make sense in the individual case makes no sense when it is made a universal rule and applied to all cases. It makes no sense because it fails to take into account the connection between one broken window left untended and a thousand broken windows. — James Q. Wilson

Do small things with great Love — Mother Teresa