Pushparaj Deshpande Quotes & Sayings

I really gravitate to the comedy of tonal contrasts. I hope that doesn't sound insufferably pretentious. What I mean is people having reactions to things that seem inappropriate, or being happy in an apparently unhappy situation. — Matt Nix

Your speech is pompous sounding, full of pride, as fits the lackey of the Gods. You are young and young your rule and you think the tower in which you live is free from sorrow: from it have I not seen two tyrants thrown? The third, who now is king, I shall yet live to see him fall, of all three most suddenly, most dishonored. Do you think I will crouch before your Gods, -so new-and tremble? I am far from that. — Aeschylus

I had no idea that no one else would do it. — William Gibson

If she kissed him, would he taste like blood or cloves or a mixture of the two? — Cassandra Clare

It's fun to meet people from throughout the world who you don't have to explain yourself to. — Billie Jean King

Whenever I'm onstage, I try my best not to think that I'm performing. It's simply another part of my day. — Bobby McFerrin

The world shall perish not for lack of wonders, but for lack of wonder — John B. S. Haldane

If a dictator takes up my ideas, the resulting town will survive the political system that commissioned it and stand as a social good. Besides, modernism rather than classicism has dominated the architecture of totalitarian regimes of both the left and right. — Leon Krier

You just don't know anything unless you can write it. Sure you can argue things out in your own head and bring them out at parties, but in order to argue anything thoroughly, you must be able to put it down on paper. — S.I. Hayakawa

The 'enduring theme' [in fiction] of male competition and female competition for the hero/survivor has taken us from the fittest surviving to the brink of no one surviving. Sex roles have gone from functional to dysfunctional almost overnight. This is why the enduring theme must be questioned now. — Warren Farrell

The president [Barack Obama] himself has said he thought part of his job was to remind the American people that being president and commander in chief is a serious responsibility. — Hillary Clinton