Madhurima Das Quotes & Sayings

Judge said, what you got in your defense son? Fifty-seven channels and nothing on. — Bruce Springsteen

I am 'sort of' haunted by the conviction that the divine William is the biggest and most successful fraud ever practiced on a patient world. — Henry James

The poetry is all in the anticipation, for there is none in reality. — Mark Twain

We tend to think of happiness (and by happiness I also mean health or overall well-being)as a gift, and sometimes it is, a pure gratuity. But most of the time it comes about because you've done the work, prepared the ground to allow it in or tended it carefully once it has arrived. You have to practice happiness the way you practice the piano, commit to it the way you commit to going to the gym. — Norah Vincent

Technology, outsourcing, a growing temp staffing industry, productivity efficiencies, have all replaced the middle class. — James Altucher

I was born in 1954. My parents were brought up in the war years, and life was hard. — Annie Lennox

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching. — Oscar Wilde

I have a friend who does everything, travels all over the world, goes everywhere, and he says that no matter where in the world he's been, it never gets any better than having a child. — Nia Peeples

You never know if you can actually do something against all odds until you actually do it. — Abby Wambach

The theater is a baffling business, and a shockingly wasteful one when you consider that people who have proven their worth, who have appeared in or been responsible for successful plays, who have given outstanding performances, can still, in the full tide of their energy, be forced, through lack of opportunity, to sit idle season after season, their enthusiasm, their morale, their very talent dwindling to slow gray death. Of finances we will not even speak; it is too sad a tale. — Ilka Chase

These days Geryon was experiencing a pain not felt since childhood.
His wings were struggling. They tore against each other on his shoulders
like the little mindless red animals they were. — Anne Carson

Somehow a bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever. — Helen Rowland

But to you who are listening I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you ... . Do to others as you would have them do to you. If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them. — Gary Chapman