Natyashastra Quotes

#1. So many stories are determined before they start.

Lionel Shriver

#2. Nothing crushes the soul of a father more than the loss of the beloved son he failed to lavish his love on.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#3. And we debate whether it's a - some woman's right to tear you out of there a piece at a time! C'mon! You have a God-given right to live. And of all places, inside your mother - what in the world happened to us?

Phil Robertson

#4. Her smile was peculiar - it made her nose wrinkle, not as though she smelled something unpleasant, but more that she was so amused, her whole face wanted to be a part of the smile.

Shannon Hale

#5. I just kind of assumed that you do a movie and then you leave and you hop onto the next thing. I never thought that people are actually buddies.

Gabrielle Union

#6. Conflate a narcissistic instinct for self-preservation with moral superiority.

Dennis Lehane

#7. I long ago developed a very practical smile, which I call my "Noh smile" because it resembles a Noh mask whose features are frozen. Its advantage is that men can interpret it however they want; you can imagine how often I've relied on it.

Arthur Golden

#8. The industry now wants to be in charge of everything.

Ben E. King

#9. It's not about finding Mr Right, or that sort of conventional ending, but I do want my characters to have hope - and that's what I do with all my stories.

Cecelia Ahern

#10. I see there is a good deal of grandiloquence in my book - my friends and foes have told me. I think it must be true, for there is a good deal of grandiloquence in me - and in nature also: I saw a sunset last evening that was a gross imposition upon modesty.

Max Ehrmann

#11. I don't think it was our time then. I guess it isn't now, either." John looks over at me, his gaze steady. "But one day maybe it will be.

Jenny Han

#12. What commercialism has brought into Linux has been the incentive to make a good distribution that is easy to use and that has all the packaging issues worked out.

Linus Torvalds