Telefilms By Kaushik Quotes & Sayings

All we need to do, reader or writer, from first line to final page, is be as open as a book, and be alive to the life in language - on all its levels. — Ali Smith

If we are machines, then in principle at least, we should be able to build machines out of other stuff, which are just as alive as we are. — Rodney Brooks

But that's part of faith. Believing and knowing despite what other people say, and despite what the world might think of your beliefs. — James Frey

Mr Palliser was one of those politicians in possessing whom England has perhaps more reason to be proud than of any other of her resources, and who, as a body, give to her that exquisite combination of conservatism and progress which is her present strength and best security for the future. — Anthony Trollope

Words are too awful an instrument for good and evil to be trifled with: they hold above all other external powers a dominion over thoughts. If words be not (recurring to a metaphor before used) an incarnation of the thought but only a clothing for it, then surely will they prove an ill gift; such a one as those poisoned vestments, read of in the stories of superstitious times, which had power to consume and to alienate from his right mind the victim who put them on. Language, if it do not uphold, and feed, and leave in quiet, like the power of gravitation or the air we breathe, is a counter-spirit, unremittingly and noiselessly at work to derange, to subvert, to lay waste, to vitiate, and to dissolve. — William Wordsworth

It's odd the things that people remember. Parents will arrange a birthday party, certain it will stick in your mind forever. You'll have a nice time, then two years later you'll be like, 'There was a pony there? Really? And a clown with one leg?' — David Sedaris

If I could find someone who would love me to the extent I do, I would love her to the extent she could never love me. — M.F. Moonzajer

If you break 100, watch your golf. If you break 80, watch your business. — Joey Adams

Note to self: Overthrow government of magical Britain at earliest convenience. — Eliezer Yudkowsky