Ponnammal Music Award Quotes & Sayings

Our choices in these next few moments could only change how we suffered.
Not if.
From everything I could see, that was already decided. — Lola Dodge

No. All I say is that it is not argument that convinces me of the necessity of a future life, but this: when you go hand in hand with someone and all at once that person vanishes there, into nowhere, and you yourself are left facing that abyss, and look in. And I have looked in. . . . — Leo Tolstoy

For years I'd waited for someone to love me: that was the permission I needed to fall in love myself, as though I were a pin sunk deep in a purse, waiting for a magnet to prove me metal. When that did not happen, I'd thought of myself as unlovable.
... It was this I'd waited for all my life: a love that would make me useful, a love that would occupy all my time. — Elizabeth McCracken

I'm a city boy. I grew up in a big city, in Birmingham, and I want to write about a city. It's much richer tapestry for me than green fields. Fields and wild life make me feel ill. I don't like - I don't want to write about that stuff. — Mark Billingham

He blinks; he has to swallow back tears. The parlor — Anthony Doerr

Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another. — Plato

I don't like sewing machines. I don't understand how a needle with a thread going through the tip of it can interlock the thread by jamming itself into a little goddamn spool. It's contrary to nature and it irritates me. — Neal Stephenson

There is one thing sadder than to see one's children die; it is to see them leading an evil life. — Victor Hugo

He wasn't a gentleman and there was no telling what men would do when they weren't gentlemen. There was no standard to judge them by. — Margaret Mitchell

My friend named his car. And I don't want to be judgemental, but ... what a dork. — Demetri Martin

The guest will judge better of a feast than the cook — Aristotle.

I don't censor myself, but I don't want to force my sick-skewed version of the world, either. — Bob Saget

I knew the second I met you
that there was something about you I needed. Turns out it
wasn't something about you at all. It was just you. — Jamie McGuire