Downshift Quotes

#1. When I decided to write 'The God of Small Things', I had been working in cinema. It was almost a decision to downshift from there. I thought that 300 people would read it. But it created a platform of trust.

Arundhati Roy

#2. The information highway is being sold to us as delivering information, but what it's really delivering is data ... Unlike data, information has utility, timeliness, accuracy, a pedigree ... Editors serve as barometers of quality, and most of an editor's time is spent saying no.

Clifford Stoll

#3. Yet nature cannot be contravened, but preserves a fixed and immutable order.

Baruch Spinoza

#4. Fold him in his country's stars.
Roll the drum and fire the volley!
What to him are all our wars,
What but death bemocking folly?

George Henry Boker

#5. The snakes have their place in the agricultural economy of the village, but our villagers do not seem realize it.

Mahatma Gandhi

#6. What if I lose what little control I have left? I may live in a prison now, but at least I know my way around it.

Nicole Deese

#7. The number one way a man can succeed in fulfilling a woman's primary love needs is through communication. By learning to listen to a woman's feelings, a man can effectively shower a woman with caring, understanding, respect, devotion, validation, and reassurance ...

John Gray

#8. The cost of living keeps going up, although death is surprisingly affordable.

Stephen Colbert

#9. Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10. If the president is allowed to suspend constitutional rights on his own personal whims, our free republic has effectively ceased to exist.

Steve Stockman

#11. I've always been that person: If it gets into my head, I've got to do it until I get it perfect - a perfectionist's attitude.

Brendon Urie

#12. Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind, and great readers are becoming more scarce by the day.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#13. Survival is your strength not your shame.

T. S. Eliot

#14. In comedy timing is everything, but Betty White is the rarest of comics who seems to have mastered time itself.

Brian Williams