Sharmishta Sivaramakrishnan Quotes & Sayings

I'm six feet tall. No one realizes that because on 'The Daily Show' I'm usually sitting. — Jessica Williams

How can he [today's writer] be honored, when he does not honor himself; when he loses himself in the crowd; when he is no longer the lawgiver, but the sycophant, ducking to the giddy opinion of a reckless public. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Remember that the truth is in the details. No matter how you see the world or what style it imposes on your work as an artist, the truth is in the details. Of course the devil's there, too - everyone says so - but maybe truth and the devil are words for the same thing. It could be, you know. — Stephen King

Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them. — Albert Camus

The Vietnamese have a saying that you can't use a basket to cover a lion or an elephant. — Tim Weiner

What would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life? — Alan Watts

He turned to her - his gesture a superb compound of relief, remorse, passionate candour and bewilderment touched with curiosity; confidence and perfect penitence. Against which Scylla had to brace herself. Against such bravura how dull truth seemed, and difficult to access. Never had the bottom of a well seemed less attractive. She must hear him first. She could go down later. — Mary Butts

I listen to a lot of non-classical music at home, but I don't get many opportunities to sing it. — Claron McFadden

Most dictators were short, fat, middle-aged and hairless. Besides Danny Devito, there's only me to play them. — Bob Hoskins