P Padmarajan Quotes & Sayings

The mountains hugged each other sternly, similar to the way men hugged other men, not letting their chests touch. Thin clouds hung around their necks, and the mountains farthest away, the ones passed out against the horizon, were so pale, you couldn't see where their backs ended and the sky began.
The view made me sad, but I suppose everyone, when happening upon a sprawling expanse of earth, all light and mist, all breathlessness and infinity, felt sad - "the enduring gloom of man," Dad called it. — Marisha Pessl

If we rebuke our heart by a calm, mild remonstrance, with more compassion for it than passion against it and encourage it to make amendment, then repentance conceived in this way will sink far deeper and penetrate more effectually than fretful, angry, stormy repentance. — Francis De Sales

All politicians have vanity. Some wear it more gently than others. — David Steel

It is not by believing but by doubting that one can attain to the truth, which is ever changing form and condition. — Augusto Roa Bastos

The role of my agent has just been to get me in the room. If I can get in the room - say the character is just a charming man who lives next door - then I'll walk in there and be as charming as I can and they will think to themselves, 'I don't see why we can't cast him.' — Idris Elba

Old age is like learning a new profession. And not one of your own choosing. — Jacques Barzun

Since music has never had a Rembrandt, we have remained nothing more than musicians. — Morton Feldman

Be at your best when your best is needed. — John Wooden

I grew up in the hood, and I was raised to hate cops. But then, I started to realize that they're people, and they have lives, too. — Manny Montana

I'd like to make you laugh for about ten minutes though I'm gonna be on for an hour. — Richard Pryor

But, oh, when gloomy doubts prevail,
I fear to call thee mine;
The springs of comfort seem to fail,
And all my hopes decline.
Yet, gracious God, where shall I flee?
Thou art my only trust;
And still my soul would cleave to thee,
Though prostrate in the dust. — Anne Steele

It has been asserted that there is a separate species on the earth to correspond with each one of the stars. Now if the earth provides in each species a focus for the action of each star, why may not a similar provision be made among other heavenly bodies that are subject to the action of their fellows? — Nicholas Of Cusa

Strokes carry a message whether you will it or not. The stroke is just like the artist at the time he makes it. All the certainties, all the uncertainties, all the bigness of his spirit and the littlenesses are in it. — Robert Henri

I'm never shocked, I'm not the shockable type! — David Bailey