Prabhatha Quotes & Sayings

Nobody will use other people's experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

What was it that Granny Weatherwax had said once? "Evil starts when you begin to treat people as things". And right now it would happen if you thought there was a thing called a father, and a thing called a mother, and a thing called a daughter, and a thing called a cottage, and told yourself that if you put them all together you had a thing called a happy family. — Terry Pratchett

He was never very good at talking about feelings. He'd been on his own for so long that it was as if he'd had to learn a new language — Ann Cleeves

Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago? — Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

Finally, the lock clicked and she tugged the secret door open. A rotten stench hit her like a fist. She drew away. The boy at her side recoiled, afraid. Sarah fell to her knees. Sarah could not speak, she could only quiver, her fingers covering her eyes, her nose, blocking out the smell ... She sank to her knees again and she screamed at the top of her lungs, she screamed, for her mother, for her father, screamed for Michel. — Tatiana De Rosnay

Beyond the reach of human rage
A drop of hell, a touch of strange ... — Stephen King

Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss of death. — Elon Musk

...explaining men still assume I am, in some sort of obscene impregnation metaphor, an empty vessel to be filled with their wisdom and knowledge. — Rebecca Solnit

It is Billie Holiday who was, and still remains, the greatest single musical influence on me. — Frank Sinatra

She was fierce in the presence of death, heroic even, as she was at no other time. Its threat gave her direction, clarity, audacity. — Toni Morrison

I'm going to be a big sister," Emily said. "My daddy breeded my mommy, like Chinook with the mares. — Pamela Clare

Appreciate the lessons of the past and enjoy the newness of the future, yet remember the present is today. — Annette Thomas

Don't you think you should retire again? The first retiral seems to have got mislaid. — Dorothy Dunnett