Tamilshaadi Quotes & Sayings

And understandably so, that when you're in legal jeopardy, you really cannot put yourself in a position to open yourself up to the media. — Monica Lewinsky

The triumphs of a mysterious non-meeting are desolate ones; unspoken phrases, silent words. — Anna Akhmatova

Do the books that writers don't write matter? It's easy to forget them, to assume that the apocryphal bibliography must contain nothing but bad ideas, justly abandoned projects, embarrassing first thoughts. It needn't be so: first thoughts are often best, cheeringly rehabilitated by third thoughts after they've been loured at by seconds. Besides, an idea isn't always abandoned because it fails some quality control test. The imagination doesn't crop annually like a reliable fruit tree. The writer has to gather whatever's there: sometimes too much, sometimes too little, sometimes nothing at all. And in the years of glut there is always a slatted wooden tray in some cool, dark attic, which the writer nervously visits from time to time — Julian Barnes

History isn't what happened, history is just what historians tell us. — Julian Barnes

I chanced a shy look at Sam, and found he was already staring at me. When our eyes met, we both blushed but didn't look away. His curiosity, his energy, his wonder for the world had reawakened the part of me I was so sure I'd lost.
"What now?" he asked.
I smiled. "Next stop the pyramids?"
He grinned, and impulsively I lifted my chin and kissed him. For a moment, the warmth of that kiss drove away the pain and the horrors of the last few days. I leaned into him as much as my bandages allowed, until at last I pulled my lips away and rested my forehead against his.
"The pyramids, the North Pole, the moon," Sam replied, his voice a bit hoarse. "Next stop anywhere, as long as you're there. — Jessica Khoury

I was swimming for the United States of America. I was swimming to beat Stephen Holland. — Bobby Hackett

You are what you are, and I'd rather be myself than try and be what I'm not. — Georgia Groome

One world
Now and forever
Best friends... best friends, loyal and true
One dream... one dream
Side by side
There's nothing we can't do
One hand... one hand helping the other
Each heart... each heart fitting as one
We live... we live, always together
Sharing the same bright sun...
— Pokemon Company International

You can make people do anything if they're afraid. — Jim McDermott

Good or bad, words have an impact on each of us. As a writer, I can only hope that the effects my words have on others are more often good than bad. — Jessica Lave

If you have money, power, and status today, it is due to the century and place in which you were born, to your talents and capacities and health, none of which you earned. In short, all your resources are in the end the gift of God. — Timothy Keller

I don't like this idea of division: that if you're a clever woman then you've got to be a particular way. Because men don't. Men please themselves. — Marian Keyes