Siddesh Pai Quotes & Sayings

of the land right away. Nora Ephron, Ellen Goodman, Jane Bryant Quinn, and Susan Brownmiller all started at Newsweek in the early 1960s, but left fairly quickly and developed very successful writing careers elsewhere. "I thought I'd work my way up - to the clip desk, to research, and eventually to writer - once I — Lynn Povich

Faced with a totally controlled, monitored and owned online world, in which every utterance is immediately scanned and filed away, many have yet to make the connection that the best solution may not be running Tor and eighteen proxies, but writing things down on paper and talking face-to-face. Remember the mail? Remember conversations? Yeah, those still exist. Want to shake somebody out of their online trance? Send them a letter. Send them art. Want to record something that will last longer than a few seconds on Facebook or Twitter? Write a book. The physical world didn't go anywhere. In fact, physical artifacts and experiences have only grown in totemic power the more we've pushed them away. — Jason Louv

He must love such a handsome, noble, witty, accomplished lady; and probably she loves him, or, if not his person, at least his purse — Charlotte Bronte

Let's face it, the great comedians now that are handicapped in the looks department are tremendous writers. — Jack Black

People feel guilty. And guilt is stymieing. Guilt immobilizes. Guilt closes the air ducts and the veins, and makes people ignorant. — Maya Angelou

You are a writer - you write one chapter and go on to the next and the next and so forth. You manage the story, you control the ending, no one else. Think about it. The only difference between life and fiction is you cannot rewrite the beginning, but the ending is always within reach. While you write you think how the story will end. Do you make it an ending with no regrets? — Patrick Timm

Everyone has an influence on public affairs if he will take the trouble to exert it. — Calvin Coolidge

Men are hung up on breasts. They're looking at the titty dinner. It's pathetic. — Betty Dodson

Oh, for God's sake. Save your piss. Don't save your piss. It's all the same to me. — Kelley Armstrong

There is a certain part of all of us," Milan Kundera writes, "that lives outside of time. — Jennifer Senior

Elizabeth lifted her skirt, disregarding modesty, and delivered a swift kick to the creature's head. — Seth Grahame-Smith

After a long, impartial enquiry of the truth, and after much and earnest calling upon God, to give unto me the spirit and revelation in the knowledge of Him, I find myself obliged, both by the principles of reason and Scripture, to embrace the opinion I now hold forth. — John Biddle