Shanmugam Ias Quotes & Sayings

Anything you do has a still point. When you are in that still point, you can perform maximally. — Joseph Campbell

I work in a creative industry. My work isn't terribly hard, it's artistically explorative, so I have no complaints. — Kristen Bell

You know you're screwed when a Western doctor recommends acupuncture. — Heidi Julavits

You have Vampire Weekend who have more African references musically than most African-American artists. — Solange Knowles

Even growing up, I was always the helper-outer, the sous-chef to my parents. — Lindsey Vonn

And religion causes most of the problems, war, and economics of course, and study your history or you're going to repeat it; and if you're burning a Harry Potter book you need some serious counseling, you don't get it, you're missing the whole point. — Michael Berryman

I do not want to live in a world where we have no privacy and no freedom, where the unique value of the Internet is snuffed out, — Glenn Greenwald

Periodontal bacteria can easily slip into the bloodstream and cause infection elsewhere in the body. — Mallory Ortberg

If I took over the 'Glamour' offices for a day, I would put Joe Pesci on the cover. I would say 'We've got to change all these magazines a little bit. We have to bring out a different version of what is, like, cool. You know, what's winning. Joe Pesci, Burt Reynolds.' — Jake Johnson

Will the prized treasures of to-day always be the cheap trifles of the day before? Will rows of our willow-pattern dinner-plates be ranged above the chimneypieces of the great in the years 2000 and odd? Will the white cups with the gold rim and the beautiful gold flower inside (species unknown), that our Sarah Janes now break in sheer light-heartedness of spirit, be carefully mended, and stood upon a bracket, and dusted only by the lady of the house? China — Jerome K. Jerome

He wasn't an animal. He was the most intelligent, complicated person I'd ever met. He may not be good or virtuous, but he was human, flawed and powerful. And I cried because he needed me too. — Skye Warren

Then his fingers trembled on her ankle - tightened around her foot. His head shifted, turning toward her. With a growl, she crashed the poker down onto his head. His hand jerked. A gurgling noise arose, not from his throat but from his chest, from deep down, as if he were fighting for something. Struggling. His eyes shifted toward her. Joan raised the poker again. The gurgling stopped - not abruptly but in a final, lingering, prolonged, exhalation of breath. His lungs gradually expelled every last atom of oxygen. — Cate Campbell Beatty

One person seeks a midwife for his thoughts; the other, someone he can assist. Here is the origin of a good conversation. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The world is a more tragic and dangerous place when American isn't leading and, under this president, we have not been leading. — Carly Fiorina

Life is a thing to be lived, not spent; to be faced, not ordered. Life is not a game of chess, the victory to the most knowing; it is a game of cards, one's hand by skill to be made the best of. — Jerome K. Jerome