Ur Ananthamurthy Quotes & Sayings

I have sent books and music there, and all / Those instruments with which high spirits call / The future from its cradle, and the past / Out of its grave, and make the present last / In thoughts and joys which sleep, but cannot die, / Folded within their own eternity. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Active, pulsing love took a secondary position to expedient need and the narcoleptic inertia of the day-to-day. — Craig Lancaster

My whole thing is that I want to explore why you read books, what's the purpose of reading, and maybe that it's not that cool to hate something just because it's popular. — Josh Radnor

The bad guy wins? Fuck him. — Gillian Flynn

I asked for your heart and you gave me a stone. — Rachel Hore

My definition of love is: Being willing to die for someone, that you yourself want to kill. — Whitney Cummings

It was monks who first taught the art of reading in silence. During the Dark Ages. Augustine, perhaps, was first. And silence was a tongue Elena understood. Silence was her idiom for support and caring. Silence was permissive and contemplative and nonconfrontational and there was melody to it. It was both earth and ether. — Rick Moody

For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth. — Hunter S. Thompson

Nixon has enough to overcome in terms of his legacy and his political history. Now he has to overcome the in-fighting between his daughters. It's so sad. There's another obstacle for him to clear. — Monica Crowley

If language had been the creation, not of poetry, but of logic, we should only have one. — Friedrich Hebbel

I ad lib most of my dialogue. If I did remember my lines, it would be too bad for me. — W.C. Fields

It is open to question whether the highly individualized characters we find in Shakespeare are perhaps not detrimental to the dramatic effect. The human being disappears to the same degree as the individual emerges. — Franz Grillparzer

Not every believer has the missionary gift, but every Christian is called to some kind of involvement in missions. We are called to advance the gospel in some way and to participate in the fulfilling of God's purposes in our generation — David Shibley