Mathuram Sri Quotes & Sayings

As anthropomorphic and surreal people have said my early writing was, to me it was really stock and almost banal in the sense that it was just description, the poetry of comparing: "Your feet are like A, and your eyes like B." — Devendra Banhart

...the God in whom the majority of Christians throughout history have professed belief would appear to be evil (at least, judging by the dreadful things we habitually say about him). And I intend nothing more here than an exercise in sober precision, based on the presumption that words should have some determinate content.

(from Radical Orthodoxy 3.1 (2015): 1-17) — David Bentley Hart

The rapid progress true Science now makes, occasions my regretting sometimes that I was born so soon. — Benjamin Franklin

Instead of being on teams at school, I was preparing for auditions. — Shawn Ashmore

We are at the crossroads, my little outlaw,
and this is the map of my heart, the landscape
after cruelty — Richard Siken

Some people see things others cannot, and they are right, and we call them creative geniuses. Some people see things others cannot, and they are wrong, and we call them mentally ill. And some people, like John Nash, are both. — Nancy C. Andreasen

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing. — Isaac D'Israeli

I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world. — Muhammad Ali

Be helpful after you think, be smart before you create your own personality and be thoughtful after making friends. — Fahmid Hassan Prohor

That's what death is, Danny thought: wanting to talk to someone and not being able to. — Jennifer Egan

How like the orchard she was. Because of her slowness and the attitude in which she held herself -seemingly deferent, quiet-it appeared even a harsh word would smite her. But it would not. She was like an egg encased in iron. She was the dream of the place that bore her, and she did not even know it. — Amanda Coplin

You know what a supernova is? It's a dead star. And yet, it is the most beautiful specimen in the universe. Lots of people are supernovas but don't know it, they think that they're dead; they don't know that they're beautiful. — C. JoyBell C.