U R Ananthamurthy Quotes

#1. It also occurred to him that Minds wrote voluminous biographies of each other in order to cover the odd potentially valuable or embarrassing nugget of truth under a mountain of bullshit.

Iain M. Banks

#2. As an actor, whether you look good or you don't, it's still about what you look like: Whether you are heavy enough to play this part or thin enough to play that part. The fact of the matter is, you can add a little weight with some extra padding, but you can't shave it off.

Cherry Jones

#3. More money," Etcoff writes, "is spent on beauty than on education or social services." FEARS

Arianna Huffington

#4. I was living alone before, Campbell, if that's what you're asking." She looks at me over the edge of her wine glass. "How about you?"
"I have six wives, fifteen children, and an assortment of sheep."
Her lips curve. "People like you always make me feel like I'm underachieving.

Jodi Picoult

#5. I exist in the paradise of my mind.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#6. Before I knew escape, life was something to be endured, passively. Now I hunger for it.

Kristin Halbrook

#7. We must hide our integrity, like we hide our love.

U.R. Ananthamurthy

#8. St. Ignatius was second in succession to St. Peter as bishop of Antioch. He was a student of Christ's most beloved apostle John. So what Ignatius wrote pulses with the authority Christ gave to Peter and the heart John could hear beating at the Last Supper.

George William Rutler

#9. It is said Somerset Maugham traveled the world with a notebook to learn the essence of life and Kafka sat in a room for the same objective. Yet Kafka came out with a better world-view.

U.R. Ananthamurthy

#10. You have the body of a god and the smile of a demon. I walk towards you, barefoot, a believer walking a religious path. I wrap my arms around your neck, a priest hugging his crucifix.
I offer you my all. Burn me like incense.
Let's make all the church bells in hell ring just for us.

Malak El Halabi

#11. The dazzle of illusion, even when we see through it; the ways in which we entangle ourselves, the ways in which we work free-
How do we get to change?
When all is said and done, it seems a matter of grace.

U.R. Ananthamurthy

#12. But to be part of helping create a character and be a part of something from the beginning - the excitement of it - it doesn't get any better.

Sarah Chalke

#13. Animals in different countries have different expressions just as the people in different countries differ in expression.

Gertrude Stein

#14. Regard yourself all the more as a sinner because you cannot feel yourself to be what you are.

Walter Hilton

#15. I know how it feels when people look right through you, or worse, see you as something or someone other than what you are.

Ally Condie

#16. He cannot quite accept that real property cannot be changed into money with the same speed and ease with which he changes a wafer into the body of Christ.

Hilary Mantel

#17. Wearing fake happiness is as good as smearing foundation. A bit of moisture drains it all.

Aniruddha Sastikar