Phanindra Yarlagadda Quotes & Sayings

Maybe it goes without saying that if you want to become a famous writer before you're dead, you'll have to write something. But the folks in my classes with the biggest ideas and the best publicity shots ready to grace the back covers of their best-selling novels are also usually the ones who aren't holding any paper. — Ariel Gore

... some wounds refuse the remedy of time. — Robert McCammon

Now it is thus with time in Elfland: in the eternal beauty that dreams in that honied air nothing stirs or fades or dies, nothing seeks its happiness in movement or change or a new thing, but has its ecstasy in the perpetual contemplation of all the beauty that has ever been, and which always glows over those enchanted lawns as intense as when first created by incantation or song. — Lord Dunsany

That your spirit grow in curiosity, that your life be richer than it is, that you bow to the earth as you feel how it actually is, that we - so clever, and ambitious, and selfish, and unrestrained - are only one design of the moving, the vivacious many. — Mary Oliver

I used to carry a rabbit's foot for luck. Then it was a monkey's paw. Now it's a camel's toe. — Kristen Schaal

My mother used to say that the gods made the world round so that we could never see too far into our own future. — Kirsten Beyer

There are amazing opportunities all over the world for women, and I think that there's more good that comes out of positive energy around that than negative energy. — Marissa Mayer

I believe there are two things that exist in the world that everyone should read because they teach you pretty much everything you need to know about life: the Bible and Harry Potter. — Brittainy C. Cherry

I like visual imagery in my head. — Stephen Malkmus

Only by seeking challenges can we hope to find the best in ourselves. — Robert Rodriguez

Let us remember that telling the people we love that we love them and appreciate them is a gift that lasts longer than any shiny bauble you can give. — Genevieve Gerard

Ideas are substitutes for sorrows... — Marcel Proust

Four shrugs. "So I suggest that you take the next week to consider your fears and develop strategies to face them." "That doesn't sound fair," says Peter. "What if one person only has seven fears and someone else has twenty? That's not their fault." Four stares at him for a few seconds and then laughs. "Do you really want to talk to me about what's fair?" The crowd of initiates parts to make way for him as he walks toward Peter, folds his arms, and says, in a deadly voice, "I understand why you're worried, Peter. The events of last night certainly proved that you are a miserable coward." Peter stares back, expressionless. "So now we all know," says Four, quietly, "that you are afraid of a short, skinny girl from Abnegation." His mouth curls in a smile. — Veronica Roth

The world doesn't owe you anything. You have to work for everything you get and you have to appreciate every bit of success the world gives you. — Taylor Swift