Prantik Mazumder Quotes & Sayings

Indeed, whoever imagines he has explained Zen has in fact only explained it away; it can no more be bound by a definition than the wind can be shut in a box without ceasing to be wind. Thus any attempt to write on Zen may seem an absurdity from the beginning, but that is only so if either reader or writer imagines that Zen can be contained in a set of ideas. A book about London is in no sense London itself, and no sane person would dream of thinking that it is. Yet apparently intelligent people often make the equally ridiculous mistake of identifying a philosophical system, a dogma, a creed, with Ultimate Truth, imagining that they have found that Truth embraced in a set of propositions which appeals to their reason. There — Alan W. Watts

All cities looked the same when you were on your back. — Maggie Stiefvater

Considerable research on successful soccer players and their developmental history, affirms that a good percentage of them have spent time in isolation, working on soccer skills. — Pele

If you look at all the notions we accept about who we are, you find that they are all based upon our perceptual experiences. — Deepak Chopra

T he people and all their leaders ought to know t h at historical law which lays down t h at certain concessions are t he cloak for a tighter rein — Anonymous

I am concerned that in their efforts to evade the Sapphire stereotype, black women may be discouraged from demanding equal consideration of their specific political needs within black political discourses. — Melissa V. Harris-Perry

I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together. — William Jennings Bryan

There are always meaningful songs for somebody. People are doing their courting, people are finding their wives, people are making babies, people are washing their dishes, people are getting through the day, with songs that we may find insignificant. But their significance is affirmed by others. There's always someone affirming the significance of a song by taking a woman into his arms or by getting through the night. That's what dignifies the song. Songs don't dignify human activity. Human activity dignifies the song. — Leonard Cohen

Jupiter, you are angry, therefore you are wrong. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I'm not so Hollywood; I live in New York, so it's very normal. I don't have many friends in the industry. My friends come from all sorts of different backgrounds and careers. — Michelle Monaghan

By the time I sit down ready to write, I've done a lot of longhand and a lot of note collecting along the way. — Jill McCorkle

It was only later I began to think of bringing you to lie. It's forbidden, of course. To breathe life into machines. We've lost the knowledge anyway. Erased along with post-Newtonian physics. But the ancient methods...those cannot be rooted out. Alchemy. Sorcery. Clockwork magic. I thought there might be a way. — Sharon Lynn Fisher

We must not fixate on what this new arsenal of digital technologies allows us to do without first inquiring what is worth doing. — Evgeny Morozov