Subramony Iyer Quotes

#1. Whenever you speak to someone, you are presuming the two of you have a certain degree of familiarity - which your words might alter. So every sentence has to do two things at once: convey a message and continue to negotiate that relationship.

Steven Pinker

#2. There are no techniques in politics.

Michael Ignatieff

#3. Memories were like tomb paintings, thought the Major, the colors still vivid no matter how many layers of mud and sand time deposited. Scrape at them and they come up all red and blazing.

Helen Simonson

#4. The ability to just sit there. That's being a person.

Louis C.K.

#5. Marriage is an investment which pays dividends if you pay interest.

Bob Monkhouse

#6. These facts make the creator of music a being like the gods, and make music itself the supreme mystery of human knowledge.

Claude Levi-Strauss

#7. The madmen seem to live on forever, don't they?

Lauren Bacall

#8. The nation which forgets it defenders will be itself forgotten.

Calvin Coolidge

#9. Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.

Juvenal

#10. I think as a woman it's in our nature to nurture someone else. Sometimes at the expense of ourselves.

Emilia Clarke

#11. To allow uncomfortable feelings is to be fully alive because it opens the emotional faucet that also supplies joy and excitement.

Deborah Sandella

#12. Losing should not be negotiable.

Leonard D. Rawlins