Loksatta Jayaprakash Narayan Quotes & Sayings

Did you ever read the Bible? I mean sit down and read it like it was a book? Check out Lamentations. That's where we're at, pretty much. Pretty much lamenting. Pretty much pouring our hearts out like water. — Peter Heller

For me making a digital photo is like making a watercolor ... It's not a painting, and it's not a photo. It's something altogether new. — Art Wolfe

Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me. — Emil Cioran

The wilderness does not make you forget your normal life so much as it removes the distractions for proper remembering. — Jim Harrison

Speak of the Gods as they are. — Bias Of Priene

Matisse draws what I call the essence of the plants. He leaves a shape open. He'll do a leaf and not close it. Everybody used to say, oh, I got it all from Matisse, and I said, 'Not really.' — Ellsworth Kelly

He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was ... — F Scott Fitzgerald

Some foods are so comforting, so nourishing of body and soul, that to eat them is to be home again after a long journey. To eat such a meal is to remember that, though the world is full of knives and storms, the body is built for kindness. The angels, who know no hunger, have never been as satisfied. — Eli Brown

Personally, I have as little to do with politicians as possible. The ones that I've met I've found very boring. They're extremely egotistical, incredibly self-important. If I can help it, I try to stay as far away from them as possible. — Peter Capaldi

In psychoanalysis, only the fee is exactly what it seems to be. — Mason Cooley

Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek. — Edmund Waller

The idea behind the meta-induction is that all of our theories are fundamentally provisional and quite possibly wrong, if we can add that idea to our cognitive toolkit, we will be better able to listen with curiosity and empathy to those whose theories contradict our own. We will be better able to pay attention to counterevidence - those anomalous bits of data that make our picture of the world a little weirder, more mysterious, less clean, less done. And we will be able to hold our own beliefs a bit more humbly, in the knowledge that better ideas are almost certainly on the way. — Kathryn Schulz

Direct your mind where you want it to travel instead of always going for the ride. — Kris Carr

Oh my God. I thought I was going to have an aneurysm right there in line. Your hair smells really good? Your hair smells really good? Who did he think he was? James Bond? You don't tell someone their hair smells good. Not in a mall. — Meg Cabot