Unsmoothed Quotes

#1. Life is short, he thought. Art, or something not life, is long, stretching out endless, like concrete worm. Flat, white, unsmoothed by any passage over or across it. Here I stand. But no longer. Taking the small box, he put the Edfrank jewellery piece away in his coat pocket.

Philip K. Dick

#2. Humility and gratitude go hand in hand ... Awareness increases so that we become grateful for everything we are given. We have to learn, literally learn, to be grateful for what we receive day by day, simply to balance the criticism that day by day we voice because of powerful emotions.

Sivananda Radha Saraswati

#3. What they don't know is that I went over the edge years ago, and lived to tell the tale.

Rebecca Wells

#4. Cinema is about people, and we are a very emotional people. That is why you see those ups and those downs and those colours. That is what Indian cinema is about.

Vidya Balan

#5. In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.

Salman Rushdie

#6. The state in the matter of drugs should not, any more than in the matter of sex, act as the secret agent for the agenda of the church.

Terence McKenna

#7. Certainly paradise, whatever, wherever it be, contains flaws. (Paradisical flaws, if you like.) If it did not, it would be incapable of drawing the hearts of men or angels.

Henry Miller