Nelagadale Quotes & Sayings

You know, I'm worried about Szymborska. I wish she would stop smoking. — Wislawa Szymborska

Weyler, the brute, the devastator of haciendas, and the outrager of women . . . is pitiless, cold, an exterminator of men," ran one such account. "There is nothing to prevent his carnal, animal brain from running riot with itself in inventing tortures and infamies of bloody debauchery. — Stephen Kinzer

I never want to hurt anyone on the ice. That's not the type of player I am. — Carl Hagelin

Racial distinctions should not play a role in sport. — Pierre De Coubertin

It's odd how one's memories of youth turn out so bleak. Why does the business of growing up - one's recollections of growth itself - have to be so tragic? I still haven't found the answer. I doubt if anybody has. When I finally reach that stage at which the placid wisdom of old age ... occasionally descends on a person, then I too may suddenly discover that I understand. But I doubt whether, by that time, understanding will have much point. — Yukio Mishima