Lost Tabula Rasa Quotes & Sayings

Die in obeying commands like a soldier, and go to Nirvana, but no cowardice. — Swami Vivekananda

How I hate the Beautiful Game! I hate its cry-baby players and its gruff, joyless managers, its blokish supporters and its sinister owners, its whistle-peeping referees and its chippy little linesmen, its excitable commentators and - perhaps most of all - its unpluggable 'analysts.' — Craig Brown

I'm a compulsive storyteller, an avid reader, and have always nurtured the secret goal of spending my life as a writer. — Astro Teller

If you avoid conflict to keep the peace, you start a war inside yourself. — Cheryl Richardson

Chance plays a powerful role in every life - our brains and personalities are just chemical soup, after all; a few drops here or there matter enormously - but consequences often become more serious as income levels go down. — Mohsin Hamid

They claim there's a rationale for the children, don't they, sir?"
"Yes. Those babes in arms will grow up and want revenge on the Nazis in about 1963. I suppose the rationale for the women under forty-five is that they might be pregnant. And the rationale for the older women is while we're at it. — Martin Amis

I gave my hero a talent I'd love to have. Who wouldn't want to fly? — J.K. Rowling

I feel so blessed, and God has been so good to me. — Jonny Lang

Never apologize for burning too brightly or collapsing into yourself every night. That is how galaxies are made. — Tyler Kent

And, yes, I love the process of building. — Daniel Libeskind

Never be discontent with the life you've been dealt, be discontent with the way you're living it. — Mike Donehey

Call, believe, hear, and preach. — Jerry Bridges

I beam back at her. Fuck the surgery, fuck the kids, fuck the men in our lives or no longer in our lives. This is sweet. When she catches up with me, I say, How many, just how many forty-plus women would do that?
We gaze back up at the face bleeding into the chute we've just skied. We *did* that, I crow. Someone should love us just for that.
Hangfire — Claudia Putnam

State your name."
"Venice Huber."
"Occupation?"
"Well, it's hard to say. I don't model, land of the seventeen bimbos. I don't act - after all, isn't an actress just a model who won't shut up? Let's say, oh - homemaker. Could you die? — Paul Rudnick