Raghunathan Ramakrishnan Quotes

#1. I did not know if the story was factually true or not, but it was emotionally true [ ... ].

Richard Wright

#2. I don't like being talked into things by ungraceful people.

Mark Salzman

#3. My daughter has pointed out that there were not enough lovejobs to go around in this new world. In any event, I probably learned tolerance, maybe even literary affection for the person in the wrong historical moment, living such long, never to be mediate wars with other sufferers.

Grace Paley

#4. Everybody has something to tell. Everyone has a story. I want to know yours.

Magan Vernon

#5. The most pivotal moments in people's lives revolve around emotions. Emotions make stories powerful.

Brandon Stanton

#6. Tough times don't last, but tough people do. And I've been through some tough times, and I know a lot of people can recall tough times, and maybe are going through some tough times right now, but they don't last.

Alonzo Mourning

#7. We think we want all the time in the world with the people we love, but maybe what we need is the opposite. Just a finite amount of time, so we still think the other person is interesting. Maybe we don't need acts two and three. Maybe love is best in act one.

Nicola Yoon

#8. The bent head, the averted eye, the faltering voice, the wincing figure- these, and not the unshrinking gaze and frank reply, are the true signals of passion.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#9. If you want to destroy something, be it a blemish, acne or the human soul, all you need to do is surround it with walls.

Elif Shafak

#10. Listen to your critics. Because if you go through life denying what they say, you'll never be a good writer. The only way to improve, is to listen to those who tell you what you need to work on

Adam Snowflake

#11. A soul of water a soul of stone. A soul by name a soul unknown. The hours unmake our flesh our bone. The Soul is all and all alone!

Clive Barker

#12. The most terrifying thing in the world was having to give a speech at my girlfriend's wedding. I was physically shaking and sweating the entire time.

Lindy Booth

#13. [T]hey somehow conveyed to me that they were all toadies and humbugs, but that each of them pretended not to know that the others were toadies and humbugs: because the admission that he or she did know it, would have made him or her out to be a toady and humbug.

Charles Dickens