Mandira Travel Quotes & Sayings

Words were his delight;
Hers, a gay gracefulness
Of dancing and moving.
But when to the place
Of deep loving
(Starlight at midnight)
At last they came,
Their full communion
And consummation,
Their complete sphere,
Was stillness for her,
Silence for him. — Theodore Spencer

His hand cupped her cheek as he lowered his head to hers. Just before their lips touched, a light knock sounded on the door. — Lia Davis

Traveling provides occasions for shaking oneself up but not, as people believe, freedom. Indeed it involves a kind of reduction: deprived of one's usual setting, the customary routine stripped away like so much wrapping paper, the traveller finds himself reduced to more modest proportions - but also more open to curiosity, to intuition, to love at first sight. — Nicolas Bouvier

My love is a hummingbird sitting that quiet moment on the bough, as the same cat crouches. — Charles Bukowski

Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice. — Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to
make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way. If
we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for
personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing
a part of our lives? — Alan Kay

I think of translations as passing some scholarly smell test: you can read the words of the translation and be reasonably sure of what the words are in the original. — Christian Wiman

Harry Dresden - I take responsibility for more impossible situations in the first twenty-four hours of being dead than most people do all day. — Jim Butcher

Excellence is the asymptotic state that never quite reaches perfection. — Andy Hargreaves

People can do what they like in the privacy of their own homes. — Liane Moriarty

I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century. — Norman MacCaig

Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence. — Ralph Waldo Emerson