Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.
Quotes to Explore
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The difference between eccentricity and originality in historical studies is often difficult to detect at first encounter. When a radically new interpretation of a large segment of history makes its appearance, time is needed to sift the evidence.
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If I don't write down a thought - or an image or a line of poetry - the instant it comes to mind, it vanishes, which explains why I have pens and notebooks in my pants and coat pockets, the car, the bicycle basket, on one or two desks in every room including bathrooms and the kitchen.
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I don't know how to ground myself without the other actor present.
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Most artists, their 60th show was in front of no one. My first show was in front of 1,200 people.
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I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.
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I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.
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Our Bollywood stars who talk of being part of 100 crore films, I think I belong to the 1,000 crore club.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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My kitchen looks like the one from my childhood - very homey, with a little bit of Alice in Wonderland!
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I don't feel under-taxed in any way at all.
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I choose to focus on the positive.
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Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does not expect, nor often get.
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I have always been grateful to Colonel Longley. He proved to me that when people in authority take a stand, good can come out of it.
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As the numbers of native-born Europeans begin to fall, with their anemic fertility rates, will the aging Europeans become more magnanimous toward destitute newcomers who do not speak the national language or assimilate into the national culture but consume its benefits?
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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The incentive that you give to your youth is going to be the make-or-break future of the country.
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And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way.
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The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.
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What's a hero if not for its journey.
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Money is far more persuasive than logical arguments.
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Even when the east excited me most, even when I was keenly aware of its superiority to the broad, sprawling, swollen towns beyond the Ohio, with their interminable inquisitions which only spared children and the very old-even then it had always for me a quality of distortion.
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It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.
