Prabaker Quotes

#1. The weeks I'd spent in Bombay with Prabaker had taught me that the shaking or wiggling of the head from side to side - that most characteristic of Indian expressive gestures - was the equivalent of a forward nod of the head, meaning Yes.

Gregory David Roberts

#2. Writers' lives break into two halves,

John Updike

#3. I'm not the sort to back away from a fight. I don't believe in shrinking from anything. It's not my speed; I'm a guy who meets adversities head on.

John Wayne

#4. In the performance of a good action, we not only benefit ourselves, but we confer a blessing upon others.

Philip Sidney

#5. A good horse runs with seeing just the shadow of the whip.

Gautama Buddha

#6. Be stoic when necessary and write-you have seen a lot, felt deeply, and your problems are universal enough to be made meaningful-WRITE.

Sylvia Plath

#7. It's exciting to take control of your future instead of waiting for the phone to ring,

Jennifer Westfeldt

#8. The first poem in The Beauty holds a woman in Portugal in a wheelchair singing, with great power, a fado. I have never seen this or heard of it, the image simply arrived. But surely such a thing has happened. And it matters to me that it has, or could.

Jane Hirshfield

#9. When honor and the Law no longer stand on the same side of the line, how do we choose[?]

Anne Bishop

#10. I can't save you like that, Ty.

Lucy Christopher

#11. While I'm working on a book, I rarely read anything more than The New York Times. Which may have the long-term effect of flattening my style.

Norman Mailer

#12. My family was blue collar, a middle-class kind of thing. My father was born in Detroit, Italian-American. My mother is English. She acted on the stage with Diana Dors. Her parents were French.

Lorraine Bracco

#13. The way I use to develop an aerobic condition is three against three, man to man, in a square 20 metres by 20.

Jose Mourinho