Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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James Hilton: Damned dull time
“People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little.” —James Hilton.
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Claude Pepper: Next generation
“If more politicians in this country were thinking about the next generation instead of the next election, it might be better for the United States and the world.” —Claude Pepper.
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Alexander Hamilton: Inconstant
“An individual who is observed to be inconstant to his plans, or perhaps to carry on his affairs without any plan at all, is marked at once. By all prudent people, as a speedy victim to his own unsteadiness and folly.”‒ Alexander Hamilton.
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Alexander Mackendrick: Better actors
“Children are often better actors than adults because they have a greater capacity for believing in a situation.” —Alexander Mackendrick.
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Edith Sitwell: Patient with stupidity
“I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.” —Edith Sitwell.
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Sir Malcolm Bradbury: Married people
‘Why is it that married people always say “Come in” when everything they do says “Get out”?’ —Sir Malcolm Bradbury.
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Jane Addams: Precarious and uncertain
“The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.” —Jane Addams.
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Graham Yost: Corner
“If you put people in a corner, you see what their character really is.” —Graham Yost.
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Ivan Illich: Consumer society
“In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.” —Ivan Illich.
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William James: In spite of all our caution
“Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.”— William James.
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Ivan Illich: Hope and expectation
“We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.” —Ivan Illich.
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Sarah Orne Jewett: Harbor
“A harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing, since adventurers come into it as well as go out, and the life in it grows strong, because it takes something from the world, and has something to give in return.” –Sarah Orne Jewett.
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Charlie Sheen: Mars research
“The Mars research has advanced my life in no capacity. How has it helped your life? Looks like Arizona, tastes like chicken. Billions of dollars. I think we should just blow it up and sniff it as it drifts past.” —Charlie Sheen.
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Henry Lewis Mencken: Seldom a mistake
“Evil is that which one believes of others. It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.” —Henry Lewis Mencken.
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Paul Bourget: Complicity
“There are conditions of blindness so voluntary that they become complicity.” —-Paul Bourget.
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Pawan Kalyan: Change yourself
“Nature, philosophy and social issues are the three things that always occupy my mind. You do not have any power over others but can only change yourself.” —Pawan Kalyan.
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Lady Marguerite Blessington: More lofty
“Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular.” —Lady Marguerite Blessington.
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William Saroyan: Try to be alive
“When you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.” —William Saroyan.
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Lewis Black: Feelings
“I do have certain feelings. My feeling is that whoever is in charge, I want him out.” —Lewis Black.
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Chadwick Boseman: Natural problem solvers
“Guys are natural problem solvers – they like to have strategies.” —Chadwick Boseman.
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Meshell Ndegeochello: Bags of bones and muscle and hormones
“We’re all just bags of bones and muscle and hormones, I’ll never understand what makes our minds do the things we do. It’s like that statue of the monkey holding a skull. We’re trying to use a thing we don’t understand to understand ourselves.” —Meshell Ndegeochello.
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Rita Dove: Sun-drenched celebrities
“If only the sun-drenched celebrities are being noticed and worshiped, then our children are going to have a tough time seeing the value in the shadows, where the thinkers, probers, and scientists are keeping society together.” —Rita Dove.
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Charles Boyer: Another man
“A Frenchwoman, when double-crossed, will kill her rival, the Italian woman would rather kill her deceitful lover, the Englishwoman simply breaks off relations but they all will console themselves with another man.” —Charles Boyer.
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William Least Heat-Moon: No yesterdays on the road
“When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.” —William Least Heat-Moon
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Theodore Dreiser: Too much importance to words
“People in general attach too much importance to words. They are under the illusion that talking effects great results. As a matter of fact, words are, as a rule, the shallowest portion of all the argument. They but dimly represent the great surging feelings and desires which lie behind. When the distraction of the tongue…
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Murray Gell-Mann: Specialised understanding, coherent whole
“Of course, specialization is necessary today. But so is the integration of specialized understanding to make a coherent whole, as we discussed earlier. It is essential, therefore, that society assigns a higher value than heretofore to integrative studies, necessarily crude, that try to encompass at once all the important features of a comprehensive situation, along…
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Guillaume Apollinaire: Just be happy
“Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.” —Guillaume Apollinaire.
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Martin Amis: Bullets
“Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.” —-Martin Amis.
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Jorge Luis Borges: Fallible god
“To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.” —Jorge Luis Borges.
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Christopher Parker: Procrastination
“Procrastination is like a credit card: its a lot of fun until you get the bill.” —Christopher Parker.
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William Ernest Henley: Captain of my soul
“It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.” —William Ernest Henley.
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Jackie DeShannon: New tomorrow
“There can be a new tomorrow / There can be a brighter day / There can be a new tomorrow / Love will find a way.” —Jackie DeShannon.
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John Carmack: Low-level programming
“Low-level programming is good for the programmer’s soul.” —John Carmack.
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Ogden Nash: Kempt, unkempt
“I dreamt that my hair was kempt. Then I dreamt that my true love unkempt it.” —-Ogden Nash.
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Gene Roddenberry: Science fiction
“The funny thing is that everything is science fiction at one time or another.” —Gene Roddenberry.
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Elayne Boosler: Never been married
“I’ve never been married, but I tell people I’m divorced so they won’t think something’s wrong with me.” —-Elayne Boosler.
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Denis Leary: Irate
“I think we should take Iraq and Iran and combine them into one country and call it Irate. All the pissed off people live in one place and get it over with.” —Denis Leary.
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Davy Crockett: Hypocritically immortalized
“I have always supported measures and principles and not men. I have acted fearless and independent and I never will regret my course. I would rather be politically buried than to be hypocritically immortalized.” -Davy Crockett.
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Ted Hughes: Only calibration
“The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn’t live boldly enough, that they didn’t invest enough heart, didn’t love enough. Nothing else really counts at all.” —Ted Hughes.
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Mahendra Singh Dhoni: Three dogs
“I have three dogs at home. Even after losing a series or winning a series, they treat me the same way.” —Mahendra Singh Dhoni.
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Pierre Richard: Sense of humour
“I appreciate a sense of humor in people, because sometimes it is our only weapon against all the bad things and injustices of life. “ —Pierre Richard.
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John Galsworthy: Untidy
“The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.” —John Galsworthy.
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Letitia Elizabeth Landon: Very much like glasses
“I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time.” —Letitia Elizabeth Landon.
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George Packer: Wish and fear
“At the heart of the matter is a battle between wish and fear. Fear generally proves stronger than a wish, but it leaves a taste of disappointment on the tongue.” —George Packer.
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Ayn Rand: Inoperative
“When personal judgment is inoperative (or forbidden), men’s first concern is not how to choose, but how to justify their choice.”—Ayn Rand.
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Robert Green Ingersoll: Hands that help
“The hands that help are better far / Than lips that pray. / Love is the ever gleaming star / That leads the way, / That shines, not on vague worlds of bliss, / But on a paradise in this.” —Robert Green Ingersoll, lawyer and orator.
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Mark Knopfler: Just one world
“There’s so many different worlds, so many different suns. And we have just one world, but we live in different ones.” —Mark Knopfler.
