I want to clarify that as far as the Mahagathbandhan is concerned, the Biju Janata Dal is not a part of it.

I believe that investment in sports is investment in youth. And that, in turn, is investment in the future.

You can tell it's a poem because it's swimming in a little gel pack of white space. That shows it's a poem.

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.

Caring for someone is scary, because you both know how it feels to lose someone in the span of a heartbeat.

I was broadcast-struck from an early age; I had saved up for a tape recorder and started making programmes.

The past is good (as we all know), twenty, thirty years back everything was good, anyone can tell you that.

Commonplaces never become tiresome. It is we who become tired when we cease to be curious and appreciative.

There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.

An epicure is one who gets nothing better than the cream of everything but cheerfully makes the best of it.

Gather kittens while you may, Time brings only sorrow; And the kittens of today; Will be old cats tomorrow.

Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins.

One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.

Reported as Oscar Wilde's last words on his death bed... This wallpaper is killing me. One of us has to go.

Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.

America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself.

She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses but in all my garden there is no red rose.

It was one of those parties where you cough twice before you speak and then decide not to say it after all.

Now, the past has plenty to teach us, but I don't think it should be allowed to detain us against our will.

Sometimes, you gotta believe something crazy. Because all the other things you could believe hurt too much.

I’d much rather have good teeth than have diamonds and roses drop out of my mouth whenever I said something

Just because I tread heavily on propriety's toes doesn't mean I can't play the game when it's of use to me.

The preaching that ignores the doctrine of Hell lowers the holiness of God and degrades the work of Christ.

Imagine what Ivanka Trump life has been like? She's been eaten alive by the media. I have empathy for that.

Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.

destructiveness comes only when life isn't lived. People who can live their lives don't destroy themselves.

There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.

Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems.

The art of research [is] the art of making difficult problems soluble by devising means of getting at them.

I love Tike Alicar, The Anarchist. But I love Edie Sawyer, U-Go Girl, too. I was a little in love with her.

We don't want emotion handed to us - that's not emotion. You have to build and come from the reader's soul.

An artist is someone who feels the vibrations of the world and tries to transcribe them through his medium.

A pleasant traveling companion on a journey is as good as a carriage. Each day is the scholar of yesterday.

If you live in America, you don't have to work. You can just drift along in the smiling and nodding racket.

Even hooligans marry, though they know that marriage is for a little while. It is alimony that is for ever.

It is of the highest importance from the standpoint of experience that we know the Holy Spirit as a person.

... then he offers me his arm. As I take it, I wonder what folly decreed that women cannot walk unassisted.

Whenever I come across an Arabic word mired in English text, I am momentarily shocked out of the narrative.

Yeah, and by the way? How much does it suck that I'm an adult if I kill somebody, and not if I want a beer?

An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience.

I believe the universe created us - we are an audience for miracles. In that sense, I guess, I'm religious.

We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of on good rain and black loam.

The places where water comes together with other water. Those places stand out in my mind like holy places.

The art is not one of forgetting but letting go. And when everything else is gone, you can be rich in loss.

You are a genius beyond description, so start telling yourself that and become aware of who you really are.

To use the law of attraction to your advantage, make it a habitual way of being, not just a one-time event.

We're all the sons of God, or children of the Is, or ideas of the Mind, or however else you want to say it.

I like that you can open up any one of my books anywhere and immediately be lost. I just love them so much.

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