Purnima Dillons Restaurant Quotes & Sayings

For the first time, Manning felt frightened. It was an indefinite fear, of being small and vulnerable among large forces that were indifferent to him. — Michael Frayn

Washington is a Hollywood for ugly people. Hollywood is a Washington for the simpleminded. — John McCain

There are people who have energy that say 'don't come near me, don't get too close.' There's people like Adrienne Shelley who have the energy of 'come over here and give me a hug and if you're around me you're going to be happy about it.' — Nathan Fillion

Her music ran through him with electric energy, more joyous than anything he could remember and more painful than silver. — Thea Harrison

Desire makes slaves out of kings, while patience makes kings out of slaves. — Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali

We used to be a source of fuel; we are increasingly becoming a sink. These supplies of foreign liquid fuel are no doubt vital to our industry, but our ever-increasing dependence upon them ought to arouse serious and timely reflection. The scientific utilisation, by liquefaction, pulverisation and other processes, or our vast and magnificent deposits of coal, constitutes a national object of prime importance. — Winston Churchill

I'm no prophet, but I'm guessing that comic books will always be strong. I don't think anything can really beat the pure fun and pleasure of holding a magazine in your hand, reading the story on paper, being able to roll it up and put it in your pocket, reread again later, show it to a friend, carry it with you, toss it on a shelf, collect them, have a lot of magazines lined up and read them again as a series. I think young people have always loved that. I think they always will. — Stan Lee

Some years ago John Kenneth Galbraith wrote in an essay on his efforts at writing a history of economics: 'As one approaches the present, one is filled with a sense of hopelessness; in a year and possibly even a month, there is now more economic comment in the supposedly serious literature than survives from the whole of the thousand years commonly denominated as the Middle Ages ... anyone who claims to be familiar with it all is a confessing liar.' I believe that all physicists would subscribe to the same sentiments regarding their own professional literature. I do at any rate. — Abraham Pais

I know that there's a customary cliche about librarians being what crass people might call "hard-asses". — Leah Thomas

Though Marcus' essay extends over 13 pages of small text, at its core is a very simple premise: Contemporary American fiction has lost its innovative edge and its interest in language as art, and Jonathan Franzen is largely, if not exclusively, to blame. — Jess Row

The party line is that stocks historically have outperformed all other investment plans. — Jim Cramer

Time heals all wounds. And if it doesn't, you name them something other than wounds and agree to let them stay. — Emma Forrest

When you reveal the inner workings of your creation, you become just one mere mortal among others. What is understandable is not awe inspiring — Robert Greene

Being a reporter took me out of myself and that shaped me as a writer. — Tom Barbash

Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us. — Emile M. Cioran