Srirupa Som Quotes & Sayings

I'm not a prostitute but I can give you what you want — Missy Elliot

Leowin: Don't worry Luthiel. 'Truth's existence never depended upon belief. — Robert Fanney

God won't answer 100 percent of the prayers we don't pray. — Mark Batterson

...innocence is not safe in a civilization like ours, where a man must practice a 'ruled undemonstrative distrustfulness' in order to defend himself against traps. This 'ruled undemonstrative distrustfulness' is not confined to business men, but exists everywhere. We all exercise it. I know I do, and I should be surprised if you, who are listening to me, didn't. All we can do (and Melville gives us this hint) is to exercise it consciously, as Captain Vere did. It is unconscious distrustfulness that corrodes the heart and destroys the heart's insight, and prevents it from saluting goodness. — E. M. Forster

We don't have too much ritual in our life anymore. And these life symbols which people rely on to keep their feeling of well being, that life is not too bad after all are required more and more. — John Hench

I always feel that there is a curtain, you know, that if I could just peek behind the curtain I'd see how the world really works. And since I haven't had it I have to write about it instead. — Charles De Lint

There is no such thing as the Queen's English. The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the bulk of the shares! — Mark Twain

The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness. — George Eliot

From the beginning, then, but briefly. — Claire Messud

If a person who constantly reads is labeled a bookworm, then I was quickly becoming what might be called a tapeworm. — David Sedaris