Lakshmi Narayan Quotes

#1. Success is a funny thing. You can't really enjoy it when you're empty. Your heart is a bottomless sinkhole that swallows up everything and anything that it ingests and yet nothing can fill it. There's no sense of accomplishment; everything is meaningless.

Christine Brae

#2. 'Twin Peaks' is my favorite American TV show.

Rebecca Hall

#3. Personally, I love Toronto.

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

#4. Dear though the reader might be, I'd be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.

Vikram Seth

#5. Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance

Leo Buscaglia

#6. Rockets are bad technology. iPhones are good technology

Steve Wozniak

#7. The new history is really ancient history newly discovered. Journalists are taking crash courses in the blood-drenched background of Serbs, Croats, Bosnians, North Ossetians, Armenians and Azerbaijanis.

Henry Grunwald

#8. Modesty is the richest ornament of a woman ... the want of it is her greatest deformity.

Charles Caleb Colton

#9. I might have missed my calling as an editor. In the spring, the sight of my empty garden beds gives me the horticultural equivalent of writers' block: So much space! So many plants to choose among, and yet none of them seem quite right!

Susan Orlean

#10. Is great beauty in the simplicity of giving oneself to another in trust, and allowing them to hold you up.

Raine Miller

#11. Don't drown the man who taught you to swim. If you learned your trade or profession from the man, do not set up in opposition to him.

Charles Spurgeon

#12. Faith doesn't grow or deepen when we cower in secrecy. Faith strengthens as we go public.

James MacDonald

#13. Each heart is made of a different stone - no two feel alike nor break the same way ...

John Geddes

#14. Ah, if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#15. We're getting rewarded. We don't give up on the play and we show some character at the same time, but there is a long way for us to get to where we want to be.

Peter Bondra