Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Dennis Miller: Insightful shallowness
“There’s nothing wrong with being shallow as long as you’re insightful about it.” ~Dennis Miller.
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Tim Berners-Lee: Social basis
“Freedom of connection with any application to any party is the fundamental social basis of the internet.” ~Tim Berners-Lee.
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Bill Hicks: Children
“Children are smarter than any of us. Know how I know that? I don’t know one child with a full-time job and children.” ~Bill Hicks.
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Soren Kierkegaard: Tyrants and martyrs
“The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.” ~Soren Kierkegaard.
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Rabindranath Tagore: Trees
“Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.” ~Rabindranath Tagore.
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Shashank Manohar: Conflict of interest
“You cannot stretch conflict of interest to absurd levels. You can even say that because I am the #BCCI president I can call any #Ranji trophy selector and influence a selection. Conflict of interest has to be direct link, not a remote one.” —#ShashankManohar in the #Week dated December 6, 2015.
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Douglas MacArthur: Your age
“You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.” ~Douglas MacArthur.
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Bukhari: Signs of a hypocrite
“The signs of a hypocrite are three: Whenever he speaks, he tells a lie, and whenever he promises, he breaks his promise and whenever he is entrusted, he betrays and proves he is dishonest.” ~Bukhari.
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Norman Wisdom: Sorry circumstances
“I was born in very sorry circumstances. Both of my parents were very sorry.” ~#NormanWisdom.
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George Orwell: Hole-and-corner way
“One’s got to change the system, or one changes nothing. One can’t put things right in a hole-and-corner way.” ~George Orwell.
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Terri Guillemets: Weather
“Weather is a great metaphor for life—sometime it’s good, sometimes it’s bad, and there’s nothing much you can do about it but carry an umbrella or choose to dance in the rain!” ~#TerriGuillemets.
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A-Baihaqi: Strongest and most patient
“He who is victorious over his passion at the time of anger is the strongest among you. He who forgives, having the power to release his anger is the most patient among you.” ~A-Baihaqi.
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Anais Nin: Not very far
“We are going to the moon—that’s not very far. Man has got so much farther to go within himself.” ~Anais Nin.
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Malcolm X: Apartheid
“There is no more apartheid in South Africa than in the United States.” ~Malcolm X.
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Lana Turner: Successful man, successful woman
“A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.” ~#LanaTurner.
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Chetan Bhagat: Ignored
“Girls cannot stand being ignored, that too for a textbook.” —Chetan Bhagat, Half Girlfriend.
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George Orwell: Nationalism
“Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.” ~#GeorgeOrwell.
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Chetan Bhagat: Indecisive woman
“An army of intellectual men cannot solve the riddle created by an indecisive woman.” —Chetan Bhagat, Half Girlfriend.
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Tim Berners-Lee: Future and past
“The future is still so much bigger than the past.” ~#TimBerners-Lee.
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Clint Eastwood: “I” people, “We” people
“There are two kinds of people in this world. ‘I’ people and ‘We’ people. I’ve always tried to be a ‘We’ person.” ~Clint Eastwood.
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Nicolas Boileau: Nature
“Nature always springs to the surface and manages to show what she is. It is vain to stop or try to drive her back. She breaks through every obstacle, pushes forward, and at last makes herself a way.” — Nicolas Boileau, poet and critic.
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Franz Kafka: Advertisements
“I do not read #advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.” ~#FranzKafka.
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Rembrandt: Nature
“Choose only one master — Nature.” —Rembrandt, painter and etcher (15 Jul 1606-1669).
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Franz Kafka: Book, an axe
“A book must be an axe for the frozen sea inside of us.” —Franz Kafka, novelist (3 Jul 1883-1924) .
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Angelina Jolie: Weakness
“It is a weakness when people try to pretend that they are not vulnerable , because they all are. We are all going to get sick and we are all going to die, and we all have things that upset us and embarrass us and scare us.” —#AngelinaJolie.
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Jim Collins: Right people
“The old adage ‘People are your most important asset’ is wrong. The right people are your most important asset.” —Jim Collins.
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E E Cummings: Listen, let’s go
“Listen: There’s a hell of a good universe next door: Let’s go.” ~E E Cummings.
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Mickey Mantle: Teams and gangs
“A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.” —Mickey Mantle.
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Margaret Atwood: Feminist
“Does feminist mean large unpleasant person who’ll shout at you or someone who believes women are human beings? To me it’s the latter, so I sign up.” —Margaret Atwood, novelist and poet (b. 18 Nov 1939).
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Angie Dickinson: Frank Sinatra
“My mother was against me being an actress—until I introduced her to Frank Sinatra.” ~Angie Dickinson.
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Dr. Martin Henry Fischer: Modern drugs
“Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.” — Dr. Martin Henry Fischer.
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John Swinton: Fourth Estate
“There is no such thing, at this date of the world’s history, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for…
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Leo Buscaglia: Life lived for tomorrow
“Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day behind from being realized.” ~Leo Buscaglia.
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Milton Berle: Television by candlelight
“We owe a lot to Thomas Edison—if it wasn’t for him, we’d be watching television by candlelight.” ~Milton Berle.
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery: Rock pile
“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.” —Antoine de Saint-Exupery, author and aviator (29 Jun 1900-1944) .
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Rudyard Kipling: Strong men
“But there is neither East nor West, Border nor Breed, nor Birth. When two strong men stand face to face, though they come from the ends of the earth!” ~Rudyard Kipling.
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Charles Bukowski: Weary time
“What a weary time those years were — to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.” ~Charles Bukowski.
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Tom Stoppard: Healthy attitude
“A healthy attitude is contagious but don’t wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.” ~Tom Stoppard.
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Augustus Hare: Intellect of the wise
“The intellect of the wise is like glass: It admits the light of heaven and reflects it.” — Augustus Hare, writer.
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John Gay: Life, a jest
“Life is a jest, and all things show it, / I thought so once, and now I know it.” —John Gay, poet and dramatist (30 Jun 1685-1732) .
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Biz Stone: Creativity
“Be as creative as you like, as often as you want, because you can never run out.” –– Biz Stone.
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J K Rowling: Mistakes
“I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being–forgive me–rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.” JK Rowling’s Albus Dumbledore.
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Alexander Woollcott: Illegal, immoral or fattening
“Everything I like is either illegal, immoral or fattening.” ~Alexander Woollcott.
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Ayn Rand: Second rater
“Do you know the hallmark of a second rater? It’s resentment of another man’s achievement.” ~Ayn Rand.
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Jean-Paul Sartre: Every existing thing
“Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.” ~Jean-Paul Sartre.
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Jack Kerouac: Kindness in the wilderness
“One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls.” ~Jack Kerouac.
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Scott Alexander: Easy
“Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.” ~Scott Alexander, US scriptwriter.
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George Marshall: Next objective
“When a thing is done, it’s done. Don’t look back. Look forward to your next objective.” — George Marshall, military leader.
