Sarla Trivedi Quotes & Sayings

I feel sorry for tribes that used to be cannibals but then stopped when the Christians came and inevitably ruined everything, because it would suck to be nostalgic for the comfort food of your childhood but then never have it again because now it's suddenly not cool to eat your dead uncle. — Jenny Lawson

I like to say that the one thing that all people who succeed in changing the world have in common is that they at least tried. — Kevin Systrom

In the disturbances caused by scarcity of food, the mob goes in search of bread, and the means it employs is generally to wreck the bakeries. This may serve as a symbol of the attitude adopted, on a greater and more complicated scale, by the masses of today towards the civilization by which they are supported ... Civilization is not "just here," it is not self-supporting. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

He believed in rational thinking and scientific inquiry, which was why he never won an argument with his mother, who believed in people doing what she told them, and believed it with a rock-hard certainty which dismissed all opposition. — Terry Pratchett

I am often thanked by people for inventing the term traditionally built. The people who give me thanks for this are often traditionally built themselves. — Alexander McCall Smith

I lived a normal life for a number of years. I had kids. I lived up on a farm in Gloucestershire in rural England, and just kind of got back to reality again. — Roger Andrew Taylor