Srinivasan Devanathan Quotes & Sayings

My own physicality, not an abstract idea, makes me a choreographer. — Twyla Tharp

If men like [Ken] Starr and his allies could ignore the Constitution and abuse power for ideological and malicious ends to topple a President, I feared for my country. — Hillary Clinton

He's playing every bit as hard as I am, only he knows what he's doing and I don't. Don't blame me because he's a better manipulator than I am - I haven't been around long enough to learn all his tricks. — Stephenie Meyer

Who would desire peace should be prepared for war. — Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

To many of my liberal and atheist friends and colleagues, an explanation for religious beliefs such as what I have presented in this book is tantamount to discounting both its internal validity and its external reality. Many of my conservative and theist friends and colleagues take it this way as well and therefore bristle at the thought that explaining a belief explains it away. This is not necessarily so. Explaining why someone believes in democracy does not explain away democracy; explaining why someone who holds liberal or conservative values within a democracy does not explain away those values. — Michael Shermer

I was always interested in fabric, clothes and designing. Maybe I would have been a designer by profession if I didn't start acting. — Katrina Kaif

Forgiveness is a selective remembering. It is a conscious choice to focus on someone's innocence instead of his or her mistakes ... This serves *you* ... Your body was not created to bear the burden of your overattachment to it, but was created as a container for the light of your spirit. It will more easily remember how to function perfectly when you remember the perfection in everyone. — Marianne Williamson

When a man is on the road to power he buys everyone a drink. Once elected he tries to close the saloons. — Robert Lautner

First, let us light the torch of our awareness and learn again how to drink tea, eat, wash dishes, walk, sit, drive, and work in awareness. We do not have to be swept along by circumstances. We are not just a leaf or a log in a rushing river. With awareness, each of our daily acts takes on a new meaning, and we discover that we are more than machines, that our activities are not just mindless repetitions. We find that life is a miracle, the universe is a miracle, and we too are a miracle. — Nhat Hanh

Never let a pickpocket bump into you if you can help it — Pseudonymous Bosch

You don't have to come from Trinidad to really love Harry Belafonte, you don't have to come from the West Coast to appreciate the simplicity and the beauty of the songs Kurt Cobain wrote. — Seth Avett

Don't take these from anyone but me or Shep. I don't want anyone slipping anything in your drink. — Jamie McGuire

As we all know, reality has a liberal bias. — Stephen Colbert

I love it when I start a book that is so good that all I want to do is get back to my own writing, in a competitive way. — Julia Glass