Ranjith Fernando Quotes & Sayings

Since the end of the Cold War, metropolitan elites everywhere have identified progress and modernity with the cornucopia of global capitalism, the consolidation of liberal democratic regimes and the secular ethic of consumerism. — Pankaj Mishra

To fall in love is a legendary action that doesn't need any explanation. — Auliq Ice

I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they've used, tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feeling of exhilaration to finally be there. — David Knopfler

He was less like a tree of knowledge and more like a bush of opinions." From the book "The Sellout — Paul Beatty

The analogy between the mind and a computer fails for many reasons. The brain is constructed by principles that assure diversity and degeneracy. Unlike a computer, it has no replicative memory. It is historical and value driven. It forms categories by internal criteria and by constraints acting at many scales, not by means of a syntactically constructed program. The world with which the brain interacts is not unequivocally made up of classical categories. — Gerald Edelman

Only people who are well off can be - complex. — H.G.Wells

I used to be an amateur inventor when I was a kid; I'm always inventing something. — Alan Alda

So I wrote what I hoped would be science fiction, I was not at all sure if what I wrote would be acceptable even. But I don't say that I consciously wrote with humour. Humour is a part of you that comes out. — Robert Sheckley

If after so much effort and prayer, the matter is not successful, it will be a clear sign that God does not will it. — Vincent De Paul

The English language is not always the President's friend. — George Will