Quotes & Sayings About Teachers By Indian Philosophers

Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment. — Madeline Kahn

In 1905 Albert discovered Relativity, in 1906 he invented Rock and Roll. — Yahoo Serious

Destruction doesn't create a vacuum, it simply transforms presence into absence. — Anne Michaels

But the reason we fly from the city is not in reality that it is not poetical; it is that its poetry is too fierce, too fascinating and too practical in its demands. — G.K. Chesterton

In no other modern religion is dissent still a crime, punishable by death. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali

The British press has been unfair to me and the public has followed. — Joss Stone

Each man kills the thing he loves — Anthony Burgess

Our possessions are a trust from God. What we clutch tightly, we lose. What we place in His hands, we will possess. — Phil Callaway

The drive for control, or the perception thereof, is truly the strongest force in human nature. — Tom Peters

In vain I warned other Arab leaders, those pleasure-seeking gluttons who only listen to the fawning and simpering of those who owe them favors. There was a full complement of them at Cairo, lined up like onions, spying on each other on the sly, half of them so conceited they could not stop behaving like constipated patriarchs, the other half too thick to be able to look serious. Arrivistes who thought they had really arrived, comic-opera presidents unable to shake off their country-bumpkin reflexes, petrodollar emirs looking like rabbits straight out of the magician's hat, sultans wrapped in their robes like ghosts, disgusted at the blathering eulogies the speakers were trotting out ad infinitum. Why were they there? They cared for nothing that did not concern their personal fortunes. Busy stuffing their pockets, they refused to look up to see how dizzyingly fast the world was changing or how tomorrow's storm clouds of hate were gathering on the horizon. — Yasmina Khadra

I think you either have to have a very strong decisive person at the top or else a really brilliant staff command. — Hunter S. Thompson

That's a nice song,' said young Sam, and Vimes remembered that he was hearing it for the first time.
It's an old soldiers' song,' he said.
Really, sarge? But it's about angels.'
Yes, thought Vimes, and it's amazing what bits those angels cause to rise up as the song progresses. It's a real soldiers' song: sentimental, with dirty bits.
As I recall, they used to sing it after battles,' he said. 'I've seen old men cry when they sing it,' he added.
Why? It sounds cheerful.'
They were remembering who they were not singing it with, thought Vimes. You'll learn. I know you will. — Terry Pratchett

The western is the simplest form of drama - a gun, death. — Howard Hawks

I think people want to put you in a box and close it away so that it makes them feel better. A lot of musicians get that. — Daniel Powter