Shouvik Chakrabarty Quotes & Sayings

When the world is on your shoulder, got to straighten up your act and boogie down. — Michael Jackson

Each time I write, I reaffirm my soul. — Rob Bignell, Editor

Republicans have been fleeced and exploited and lied to by a conservative entertainment complex. — David Frum

Why send a letter when you can send something truly magnificent? — Cassandra Clare

The Sufi must be able to alternate his thought between the relative and the Absolute, the approximate and the Real. — Idries Shah

Water is the sleeping giant issue of the 21st century and we all need to wake up about it. — Robert Redford

I see the mycelium as the Earth's natural Internet, a consciousness with which we might be able to communicate. Through cross-species interfacing, we may one day exchange information with these sentient cellular networks. Because these externalized neurological nets sense any impression upon them, from footsteps to falling tree branches, they could relay enormous amounts of data regarding the movements of all organisms through the landscape. — Paul Stamets

Everyone has their own varying means of measuring thing. Sometimes people can agree on something, but other times they can't. — Ichtys

Every event in this world is the effect of some precedent cause, and also the cause of some subsequent effect. — Horace Mann

I'm gonna ask ye ladies a question, and I bloody expect to be answered," he growled. "Who's the scoundrel been doin' some unwanted rootin' of yer cunts for pay? — Bey Deckard

I love it when people tell me you can't. For the very moment they say you can't, they challenge the "I can" that lies deep down within me, and the result is always positive. The I can in me rises up to the challenge and gets the job done. — Bien Sufficient

There was a red button on the wall labelled EMERGENCY, but no button labelled BEWILDERMENT. — Michel Faber

This irritated or puzzled such students of literature and their professors as were accustomed to 'serious' courses replete with 'trends ' and 'schools ' and 'myths ' and 'symbols ' and 'social comment ' and something unspeakably spooky called 'climate of thought.' Actually these 'serious' courses were quite easy ones with the students required to know not the books but about the books. — Vladimir Nabokov

And since I am a man, I would appreciate it if you would cry for us both, gatita. — Cherise Sinclair

Lately she can read a novel in two hours. She has always been an avid reader, but these days she can read much faster. The colors, the conversations, everything is much more vibrant and inclusive, as if opening a book releases genies trapped inside. The scenes and people between their covers sometimes seem more vivid than real life, with their sunny, pearl-toothed characters, the witty conversation, the handsome stranger squeezed into a subway car or knocking about on the street. Sometimes, when she finishes a book at record speed, Dana feels a slight letdown, as if a good friend has hung up the phone in the middle of a conversation. — Susan H. Crawford