Selvitt Quotes & Sayings

It was June in Maharashtra, and the monsoon would not come. The whole district lay panting in the heat, the burning sky clapped tight overhead like the lid of a tandoor oven. Lean goats stumbled down the narrow alleyways, udders hanging slack and dry beneath them; beggars cried for water in every village. Dust-devils swept over baked clay and through the dry weeds, whistling and shrieking. Hot sand blew into the eyes of torpid bullocks as they leaned into the yoke, whips snapping over their bony backs. A single stream crept along the valley floor, shrunken and muddy, and women stood ankle deep in its shallows, beating their laundry against rocks that rippled and danced in the sun. — Arinn Dembo

If you're using your imagination, you tend to look into the past for ideas. — Paul McCartney

There are two kinds of disease of the soul, vice and ignorance. — Socrates

I started off writing TV adverts. I saw those as rehearsals for a feature film. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

How can dreams be secondhand?" Lissie asked, sounding both skeptical and intrigued.
Addie flipped on the headlights, watched the snowflakes dancing in the beams. "Sometimes people give up on them, because they don't fit anymore. Or they just leave them behind, for one reason or another. Then someone else comes along, finds them, and believes they might be worth something after all. — Linda Lael Miller

I think being called a she-devil by a trial lawyer is meant as a compliment. — Ann Coulter

other words, if you want to know the truth about the emperor's clothes, don't ask the tailors. — Judith Rich Harris

On a sandbar
sunlight stretches out its limbs, or is it
a sycamore, so brazen, so clean and bold? — William Stafford

There are people who so arrange their lives that they feed themselves only on side dishes. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

Sure, tactically and in the short term, we'll do all right, but in the long term, these types of policies always fail, and you know why, because there will come a time that we need the same American public - that we kept everything hidden from - to support the policy either with their blood or money. — J.W. Amran

That I was in love with Niall Stella was only a secret in theory. He knew it, I knew it. — Christina Lauren

God's love does not protect us from suffering. God's love protects us in the midst of suffering. — Hans Kung

I'm half Puerto Rican. — Nick Woodman

If one asserts that buying customers below what they charge them is a corporate strategy, this is in essence an arbitrage game, and arbitrage games rarely last. — Bill Gurley

Fake people always seem like they're winning because they're always lying. — Troy Gathers