Vadivelu Meme Quotes & Sayings

When you're dead, you're dead. No one is going to remember me when I'm dead. Oh, maybe a few friends will remember me affectionately. Being remembered isn't the most important thing, anyhow. It's what you do when you are here that's important. — Susan Hayward

A hundred years of scholarly thinking has stretched back a million-fold the age of the Earth. But these same diviners, antiquarians and scholars are thinking now as they did a hundred years ago, when it comes to the age of civilizations; they can't even begin to concede that civilizations might have very old histories. The Earth is allowed to be millions of millions of years old, but the birth of civilization is still set somewhere between two thousand B.C., depending on the bias of the archaeological school and the definition of civilization. — Doris Lessing

And the wicked thing is, that when we're really upset, we always take it out on the people who are closest and whom we love the most. — Rosamunde Pilcher

Most people are optimists, although they may claim they are not. People who call themselves realists are often the biggest optimists of all. — Stephen King

To have been described long ago to a recent acquaintance by nameless people is irresistible. — Jane Austen

Some of the books the Ministry's confiscated - Dad's told me - there was one that burned your eyes out. And everyone who read Sonnets of a Sorcerer spoke in limericks for the rest of their lives. And some old witch in Bath had a book that you could never stop reading! You just had to wander around with your nose in it, trying to do everything one-handed. And - "
"All right, I've got the point," said Harry. — J.K. Rowling

In Berlin I especially enjoyed the orchestral concerts, and I attended a large number of them. I formed the acquaintance of a good many musicians, several of whom spoke of my playing in high terms. — James Weldon Johnson

Outwardly we should practise the shravakayana, inwardly the bodhisattvayana and secretly the vajrayana. — Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse

Am I a vampire?" Massie asked.
"Huh?" Alicia asked.
"Then why are you keeping me in the dark? — Lisi Harrison

Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do. — Ivan Turgenev

Come on, Barbie. Please. Do it for your favorite cupcake. — Gena Showalter

Golf tips are like aspirin. One may do you good, but if you swallow the whole bottle you will be lucky to survive. — Harvey Penick