Ranee Mehra Quotes & Sayings

A window smoky with lavender twilight arched over a desk littered with books and weeping columns of burning wax. Over the desk hunched a sooty-headed character. The scratching paused as he dipped a quill into an inkwell that sat beside an old-fashioned black telephone with large finger holes for dialing. — Maria Alexander

I go back and research, say, every reference to the Gorgons, and I find what the classical writers said about them and it's so much richer than you might get in an average Greek mythology text. I feel like an archaeologist - I'm dusting off these things that people have not seen for thousands of years and bringing them into the modern world. — Rick Riordan

The novel is more of a whisper, whereas the stage is a shout. — Robert Holman

When I fell out of the light, I entered The stomach of indifference, the wordless cupboard. — Sylvia Plath

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury. — John Stuart Mill

Rock and menopause do not mix. — Stevie Nicks

It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection. — W. Somerset Maugham

muted tones of puce--the color of tongue and bologna — Wendy Wunder

Curing cancer affects good cells too in the short run but makes a life flourish in the long term. Curing corruption affects good people too in the short run but makes a nation flourish in the long term. — Vikrmn

IN A DETECTIVE'S WORLD there was one true blight on society, and it wasn't the master criminal; after all, superpredators were few and far between. It was the media. Sunday — Lisa Gardner

It's time for us as a country to try to come together in ways that freedom was really meant to be. — Oprah Winfrey

Even personal tastes are learned, in the matrix of a culture or a subculture in which we grow up, by very much the same kind of process by which we learn our common values. Purely personal tastes, indeed, can only survive in a culture which tolerates them, that is, which has a common value that private tastes of certain kinds should be allowed. — Kenneth E. Boulding