Guru Dutt Quotes

#1. The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech.

Dogen

#2. For all I know, my grandfather was a bank robber in Kilsyth.

Peter Capaldi

#3. I wanted to show those characters discovering it is possible to find common ground, as they make their way through a plotline that I hope is engrossing enough to keep the reader a willing participant.

Joan D. Vinge

#4. In a way fighting was just like using magic. You said the words, and they altered the universe. By merely speaking you could create damage and pain, cause tears to fall, drive people away, make yourself feel better, make your life worse.

Lev Grossman

#5. A wise man, once he is past fifty, does not befuddle his senses with strong drink, nor make violent love in the cool spring night, nor dance on his hands.

Frans G. Bengtsson

#6. In going on with these Experiments, how many pretty systems do we build, which we soon find ourselves oblig'd to destroy! If there is no other Use discover'd of Electricity, this, however, is something considerable, that it may help to make a vain Man humble.

Benjamin Franklin

#7. To me, the advantage of the recorder is that it is so natural. I love the fact that it is just a piece of wood, that there are almost no mechanics involved.

Michala Petri

#8. My whole problem is that my lips move when I think.

Bill Watterson

#9. If you asked me to write a rock song or a rap song, I couldn't do it because they're not in my fingers.

Tom Lehrer

#10. I came up with a parallel Venice called Venus. set in a parallel Venice about 1701.

Tanith Lee

#11. We're talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax, human sense; every attempt means starting over with language. starting over with accuracy.

Anne Carson

#12. If you do not learn to think today, tomorrow someone else will do and will wangle you.
THE WOMAN THAT USED TO PLAY HIDE AND SEEK, a story by David Cotos.

David Cotos

#13. There is an aspect of my character that tends to latch on to one difficult but potentially solvable problem, rather than grapple with the vast and unsolvable problem that would be all I could see, if I were to look up, figuratively speaking, from my small blue notebooks.

Ben H. Winters

#14. I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand.

Gordon Parks

#15. He had tales of distant countries.

James Joyce