Ramji Srinivasan Quotes & Sayings

Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart. — Erica Jong

friends didn't bail on you when the rough storms came. They ran towards you instead of away from you. — Belle Calhoune

Death may be inevitable, but love is not. Love, you have to choose. I'll begin with that. With Love. — Hillary Jordan

Any country that has Milton Friedman as an adviser has nothing to fear from a few million Arabs. — John Kenneth Galbraith

Life is not a set campaign, but an irregular work, and the main forces in it are not overt resolutions, but latent and half-involuntary promptings. — Walter Bagehot

History more often records the brilliant successes and spectacular defeats of contending forces than the effect of war on the common people. — Mildred Cable

Rewrite and revise. Do not be afraid to seize what you have and cut it to ribbons ... Good writing means good revising. — William Strunk Jr.

The values ascribed to the Indian will depend on what the white writer feels about Nature, and America has always had mixed feelings about that. At one end of the spectrum is Thoreau, wishing to immerse himself in swamps for the positive vibrations; at the other end is Benjamin Franklin, who didn't like Nature. [p.91] — Margaret Atwood

a candle loses nothing from lighting another candle — Kerry Day

I don't understand why anyone would collect my work. Please understand ... it's like writing Our House. It took me an hour, it was 30 years ago, get over it! But people say, No, no, it changed my life, and I don't understand that. I can't take that seriously as a producer of what I consider to be art. If they want to collect it, fantastic. If you see what I saw when I took it and it means something to you, then by all means collect it. If I make some money, um, fine. — Graham Nash

Part of my big message with all this is that if you are alive, you know all you need to know about the message of classical music, because more than any other music, it is about the way life really is. — Michael Tilson Thomas