Avadhani Convention Quotes

#1. Obsolescence is a fate devoutly to be wished, lest science stagnate and die.

Stephen Jay Gould

#2. The American mass media have achieved what American political might could not: World domination.

Akbar S. Ahmed

#3. Remember, half the people you know are below average.

Larry The Cable Guy

#4. I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it's a phantom chase.

Barbara Corcoran

#5. I say to myself that I mustn't let myself be cut off in there, and yet the moment I enter my bag is taken out of my hand, I'm pushed in, shepherded, nursed and above all cut off, alone. Whitehall envelops me.

Richard Crossman

#6. Music is nourishment, and a comforting elixir. Music multiplies the beauty of life and all its values.

Zoltan Kodaly

#7. Earthman, the planet you lived on was commissioned, paid for and run by mice. It was destroyed five minutes before the completion of the purpose for which it was built,

Douglas Adams

#8. Ask any teenage girl to describe her perfect bedroom, and you'll get answers like 'a room with a private phone line, a place to hang out with friends, and for it to be way-cool and funky.' Ask parents the same question, and 'a locked door that opens on their 21st birthday' might top the list!

Candice Olson

#9. The worst thing about this particular end (of my youth) and the beginning (of middle age) is that for the first time in my life, I realize I don't know where I'm going. My wants are simple: a job that I like and a guy whom I love. And on the eve of my thirteth, I must face that I am 0 for 2.

Emily Giffin

#10. One sure way to bring in the new is to make room for it

Akosua Dardaine Edwards

#11. There is not an issue that a woman cannot bring a perspective to.

Eddie Bernice Johnson

#12. Will you take a picture? she said. I looked down at the bleak panorama and shook my head. How could I take a picture of nothing?

Patti Smith

#13. However much or little I had written, on a subsequent reading it always seemed so fundamentally flawed that I had to destroy it immediately and begin again.

W.G. Sebald

#14. The entire gamut of the view's changes should have been known to her; its winter aspect, spring, summer and autumn; how storms came up from the sea; how the moors shuddered and brightened as the clouds went over.

Virginia Woolf

#15. He felt his heart, which no longer beat, contract, and he wondered if there was anything in the world as painful as not being able to protect the people you loved.

Cassandra Clare