Platial Quotes & Sayings

Successful fiction does not need to be validated by 'real life'; I cringe whenever a writer is asked how much of a novel is 'real'. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Does the poem reside in experience or in self-consciousness about experience? — Mark Doty

Weeks passed, but my Word-A-Day Calendar was stuck on motherfucker. — Colson Whitehead

It is impossible to get a man to understand something if his livelihood depends on him not understanding. — Upton Sinclair

Women's director! Well, I'm very pleased to be considered a master of anything, but remember, for every Jill there was a Jack. People like to pigeonhole you - it's a shortcut, I guess, but once they do, you're stuck with it. — George Cukor

It's okay to DREAM and dream BIG. — Abhishek Kumar

Her rapist went unpunished, and yet she was sterilized.70 — Nancy Isenberg

We used to have a family game, invented by my sister and a friend of hers - it was called 'Agatha's Husbands'. The idea was that they picked out two or at the most three of the most repellent looking strangers in a room, and it was then put to me that i had to choose one of them as a husband, on pain of death or slow torture by the Chinese.
'now then, Agatha, which will you have - the fat young one with pimples, and the scurfy head, or that black one like a gorilla with the bulging eyes?'
'Oh I can't - they're so awful.'
'You must - it's got to be one of them. Or else red hot needles and water torture.'
'Oh dear, then the gorilla. — Agatha Christie

Habits die hard, only good ones, because bad ones are immortal. — Lovely Goyal

You can't have a normal practice with nine skaters, Until we have more than nine guys, it's not going to be a regular practice. — Craig Adams

Death is the ultimate disappointment — James Randi

I cannot get accustomed to war; my brain refuses to understand and explain a thing that is senseless in its basis. Millions of people gather at one place and, giving their actions order and regularity, kill each other, and it hurts everybody equally, and all are unhappy
what is it if not madness? — Leonid Andreyev

But this year I have started out trying to live all my waking moments in conscious listening to the inner voice, asking without ceasing, 'What, Father, do you desire said? What, Father, do you desire done this minute?' — Frank Laubach

You never fail if you know in your heart that you did the best of which you are capable. I did my best. That is all I could do. Are you going to make mistakes? Of course. But it is not failure if you make the full effort. — John Wooden