Michael Perlis famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • As her parents, Aishwarya and I want our child to be happy and healthy. I was guarded from all this (media attention and showbiz world). The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.

  • The holy name of Krishna has extraordinary spiritual potency because the name of God is nondifferent from God Himself.

  • Therefore a person fully absorbed in the bodily concept of life is surely killing himself by not making spiritual progress. Such a person is called pasu-ghna. Especially excluded from spiritual life are the animal hunters, who are not interested in hearing and chanting the holy name of the Lord. Such hunters are always unhappy, both in this life and in the next. It is therefore said that a hunter should neither die nor live because for such persons both living and dying are troublesome.

  • I have little shame, no dignity – all in the name of a better cause.

  • If one were asked to name one musician who came closest to composing without human flaw, I suppose general consensus would choose Johann Sebastian Bach...

  • What journalism is really about-it's to monitor power and the centres of power.

  • Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change.

  • In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation.

  • The best journalism is sometimes about footnotes—when we write small to say something big.

  • Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there.

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