Shanmugam Nagarajan Quotes & Sayings

Many luckless people imagine that romance is dead: some, overcivilised, fondly suppose that there never was romance: a poet tells us that romance is unrecognised though really present: but scientists can meet him daily, walking at large and undisguised in the world. — Archibald Hill

Somewhere in him, a shadow turned mournfully over. You had to run with a night like this so the sadness could not hurt — Ray Bradbury

Here was one place where I could find out who I was and what I was going to become. And that was the public library. — Jerzy Kosinski

When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away - even if it's only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time. — Stephen Koch

I take my hat off to the hero who dashes into a burning house and saves his neighbor's child; but I shake his hand if he has risked squandering a precious five seconds to find and save, together with the child, its favorite toy. — Vladimir Nabokov

What makes a subject difficult to understand - if it is significant, important - is not that some special instruction about abstruse things is necessary to understand it. Rather it is the contrast between the understanding of the subject and what most people want to see. Because of this the very things that are most obvious can become the most difficult to understand. What has to be overcome is not difficulty of the intellect but of the will. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

If I had time in a bottle, if words could make wishes come true, I'd save everyday for eternity passes. And then I would spend them with you. — Jim Croce

I don't believe you can ever really cook unless you love eating. — Nigella Lawson

In 2005, I had one more year of college left, and I was taking a summer class in Barbados. I got discovered in the airport on my way back and started modeling at the beginning of my senior year at Bucknell. — Garrett Neff

Everything that goes on in your whole life is a result of molecules rushing around somewhere in your brain. — Don DeLillo

Ignore their heathen prayers and help us blow those little bastards [the Viet Cong] straight to Hell. Amen. — Hal Moore

I don't like the idea that I am going to come back as an ant or a sparrow if I don't get along in the great karma of life. — Stephen King

The past is magnetic. It draws us in. — Jeanette Winterson