Mallika Sukumaran Quotes & Sayings

If you can orbit the planet, why can't you see
what makes the human heart happy?
Is it art or is it sex?
Or is it, as I suspect, just keeping going
from next thing to next thing
to next thing to next thing
to next to next to next to next
pulsating stupidly to outlast time? — Dan Chiasson

At AOL, we thought the killer app was people — Steve Case

Where I grew up, I could be a punk rocker and a jock. But in college, it became apparent that those two worlds didn't mix. When I brought my guitar back to school after Thanksgiving break, a friend handed me his bass and said, 'Listen to the Ramones.' — Jeff Ament

Can you imagine a demon auction? Serial killer going once ... twice ... sold to the drama queen at the corner. — P.C. Cast

One of the best teaching experiences Ed Schein and I had when we were teaching at MIT in the 1960s was inventing a course on leadership through film. — Warren Bennis

I can fake anything. — Michael Reagan

I need you because I love you. — Erich Fromm

How sympathetic you look, Anne ... as sympathetic as only seventeen can look. — L.M. Montgomery

There are a few books I have read that I've never been the same after, and I think all good writing somehow addresses the concern of and acts as an anodyne against loneliness. We're all terribly, terribly lonely. And there's a way, at least in prose fiction, that can allow you to be intimate with the world and with a mind and with characters that you just can't be in the real world.
I don't know what you're thinking. I don't know that much about you as I don't know that much about my parents or my lover or my sister, but a piece of fiction that's really true allows you to be intimate with ... I don't want to say people, but it allows you to be intimate with a world that resembles our own in enough emotional particulars so that the way different things must feel is carried out with us into the real world.
I think what I would like my stuff to do is make people less lonely. — David Foster Wallace

A long disease seems to be a halting place between life and death, that death itself may be a comfort to those who die and to those who are left behind. — Jean De La Bruyere

History is a yarn. And can I deny that what I wanted all along was not some golden nugget that history would at last yield up, but History itself: the Grand Narrative, the filler of vacuums, the dispeller of fears of the dark? — Graham Swift

We have ourselves to save. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I'm not dissatisfied, just not satisfied in an ultimate sense. — Ariel Pink

That's my girl." My heart jumps a little when he says that and I remind myself to get a grip. — Jasmine Warga