Laxman Sivaramakrishnan Quotes

#1. Something in me died at Peleliu. Perhaps it was the childish innocence that accepted as faith the claim that Man is basically good. Possibly I lost faith that politicians in high places, who do not have to endure war's savagery, will ever stop blundering and sending others to endure it.

Eugene B. Sledge

#2. The fuckers. There, I feel better. God-damned human race. There, I feel better.

Charles Bukowski

#3. The ultimate intuitions and insights will only approach one who lives in his work and remains there, and whoever considers them from afar gains no power over them.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#4. Wherever we are, we are as one

Cassandra Clare

#5. I had a conversation with a biologist in an art gallery, and he persuaded me that it was possible to grow a dress from microbes. It was the craziest thing I had ever heard, but I'm a bit of a science fiction fan and I thought it sounded like an interesting challenge.

Suzanne Lee

#6. Bryan helped me up. "How can you be so good one minute then clumsy the next?"
I shrugged. "I've never been very athletic. Not unless you count fencing."
"You made fences?

John Corwin

#7. ( ... ) You're very young."
"No one's young anymore. Anyone who's survived this long is ancient."
There's a smile pulling up one corner of his mouth.

Stephenie Meyer

#8. It never really bothered me that I never got the same publicity.

Marion Motley

#9. To be your best today, your only goal is to outperform the guy you were yesterday.

Martyn Rooney

#10. the value of intellectuals is neither their intellect nor the value of their intellect but the value of what they use their intellect to do

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#11. A big bonus was about as well concealed on the Salomon Brothers trading floor as the results of a hot date in a high school boys' locker room.

Michael Lewis