Mahadevan Harvard Quotes & Sayings

You may return and tell Sun Quan to wash his neck: the executioner is coming. — Luo Guanzhong

When it's time to make music, that's about getting lost for me. To be a control freak is not half as good as being a freak who's casually in control. You're feeling around in the dark for something that feels good. — Josh Homme

When you take on something like your footprint on the environment, you have to say, 'Where am I going to draw the circle around my level of responsibility and then where do I assume that others will take responsibility?' — Sally Jewell

I think fiction may be, whatever else, an exercise in the capacity for imaginative love, or sympathy, or identification.
-Imagination & Community — Marilynne Robinson

I've found that all it usually takes to draw out an engineer is to ask a couple of technical questions and then remain calm while listening to the answers. Most people tend to take on a blank, frightened look as soon as they realize that a technical explanation is under way; if you can resist giving this reaction and simply listen, your engineer will open up and tell you everything you ever wanted to know. — Margaret Lazarus Dean

I know Quebecers don't want to relive old battles; they prefer to build for the future. — Kim Campbell

The Goal of Education is to Help People Use Their Minds Better — Howard Gardner

But the heart of a woman is such that, however arid it may become when the winds of prejudice and the demands of etiquette have blown across it, there always remains one corner that is radiant and fertile
-the one that God has dedicated to maternal love. — Alexandre Dumas

Is it really in our countrys best interest to signal to the enemy that they probably only have to wait us out a little longer because congressional determination to defeat them is crumbling? Doesnt such a resolution further diminish our chances for success at the very time our soldiers are preparing to go into battle? And finally, regardless of our politics is this the time to announce to the world that our president is 'on his own'? — Fred Thompson

I'm not a completely closed book; I'm a social person and if I see something worth sharing, I'm happy to do that. — Josh Duhamel

[Race] had no substance, like a shadowy shape that terrifies in the dark but vanishes by the light of day. — Nayantara Sahgal

One thing talk can't accomplish is communication. This is because everybody's talking too much to pay attention to what anyone is saying — P. J. O'Rourke

If you going rape me, rape me already and leave me in whichever ditch you leave woman. Just stop bore me with your r'asscloth mouth — Marlon James