Natyasastra Quotes & Sayings

At 10 minutes to seven on a dark, cool evening in Mexico City in 1968, John Stephen Akwari of Tanzania painfully hobbled into the Olympic Stadium-the last man to finish the marathon. The winner had already been crowned, and the victory ceremony was long finished. So the stadium was almost empty and Akwari - alone, his leg bloody and bandaged - struggled to circle the track to the finish line. When asked why he had continued the grueling struggle, the young man from Tanzania answered softly: My country did not send me 9,000 miles to start the race. They sent me 9,000 miles to finish the race. — Walter Inglis Anderson

He smiled when he talked, a smile that was not completely cold, but was the professional smile of a man who spends his days answering easy questions for people whom he'd rather usher out of his office via catapult. — Cherie Priest

We're the Fascist States of America today, not the United States of America, because the corporations are in power. — Jesse Ventura

- What ... what are you doing here? I thought you had to run some
errands.
- And let an opportunity like this slip by? No chance. Everything in
the world, except you, can wait 'til tomorrow. — J.M. Colail

Discipline our youth in early life in sound maxims of moral, political, and religious duties. — Noah Webster

My friendship with Jack remains strained. I want to believe that he was duped, but he has always been far too clever to fall for another man's ruse. So we have added yet one more thing to our relationship about which we never speak. Sometimes I think we will break beneath the weight of it, but on those occasions I have but to look at my wife in order to find the strength to carry on. I am determined to be worthy of her and that requires that I be a far stronger and better man than I had ever planned to be.
We see Frannie from time to time, not as often as we'd like unfortunately. She did eventually marry, but that is her story to tell.
Dear Frannie, darling Frannie.
She shall always remain the love of my youth, the one for whom I sold my soul to the devil. But Catherine, my beloved Catherine, shall always be the center of my heart, the one who, in the final hour, would not let the devil have me. — Lorraine Heath

My aim is to communicate with the last man in the audience. Art minus communication is meaningless. The term 'abhinaya' is not just facial expressions. It means drawing the spectator to an idea. Look at the modern advertisements. It's contemporary abhinaya. But one who creates should know what has to be completely and what has to be suggestively portrayed. That is ethical aesthetics. The Natyasastra says a production must be such that a family should be able to watch it together. — Padma Subrahmanyam

She sighed. "Go on, say it. I shouldn't have come."
"You shouldn't have come." He looked sideways at her and gave her a fleeting grin. "But I'm glad you did. — Kai Meyer

To every religion the gods of other religions are only notions concerning God, but its own conception of God is to it God himself, the true God. — Ludwig Feuerbach

The Japanese army is now prepared to use every means within its power to subdue its opponents. The objectives of the Japanese Expeditionary Forces are, as clearly set forth in statements issued by the Japanese Government, not only to protect the vested interests of Japan and the lives and property of the Japanese residents in the affected area, but also to scourge the Chinese Government and army who have een pursuing anti-foreign and anti-Japanese policies in collaboration with Communist influences. — Iwane Matsui

There's a lot of negative messaging and it beats on you after a while. And people are growing up with that stuff and they start believing it themselves. — Kevin Sorbo

I'm not usually drawn to memoir - many run the risk of self-aggrandizement or score-settling. — Alice McDermott

Our intention and aspiration is to continue building out thematic information about every subject - basemaps, imagery, demographics, landscape data, etc. - so anyone can use it to access thousands of authoritative maps. — Jack Dangermond