People Could Fly Story Quotes

#1. Our nation is like a tree of which the original trunk is swarajya and the branches are swadeshi and boycott.

Bal Gangadhar Tilak

#2. Tell me what you can't forget, and I'll tell you who you are. I switch off my apartment light and she comes with the dark.

Julie Buntin

#3. I was shrewd like mauma. Even at ten I knew this story about people flying was pure malarkey. We weren't some special people who lost our magic. We were slave people, and we weren't going anywhere. It was later I saw what she meant. We could fly all right, but it wasn't any magic to it.

Sue Monk Kidd

#4. I used to pretend that I was just passing through this family on my way to my real one.

Jodi Picoult

#5. What have you taken from me, and from what have you taken me?

John Connolly

#6. You would think with all the genius and the brilliance of these times, we might find a higher purpose and a better use of mind.

Jackson Browne

#7. One is never satisfied with a portrait of persons whom one knows. That is why I have always pitied portraitists. One demands so seldom of others the impossible, but demands just that of the portraitists.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#8. Mark Brunell usually likes to soak his balls before a rainy game.

John Madden

#9. Expressing oneself is like a drug. I'm so addicted to it.

Ai Weiwei

#10. Ah-ha! On the stove was a cast-iron skillet. Perfect. Precisely how hard did you have to hit someone on the head to knock him out without killing him? I wasn't sure. Guess I'd just have to bash away and hope for the best.

Linda Grimes

#11. Q: Do you really distance yourself from your subject? I mean, what would you do if you were presented with a young girl burning to death?
A: About 1/60 at f5.6.

Robert Capa

#12. An incense floated in the quivering air, A mystic happiness trembled in the breast As if the invisible Beloved had come Assuming the sudden loveliness of a face And close glad hands could seize his fugitive feet And the world change with the beauty of a smile.

Sri Aurobindo

#13. If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

Baruch Spinoza