"My books serve as archives of thoughts and emotions, like a tonal history that captures how I felt at a certain time of my life. It's not very informational. You're not going to get comprehensive knowledge about the Han dynasty of China or about India's Emergency. But you might learn how one person felt about the Los Angeles Olympics."

-- Sarnath Banerjee

#Book Quotes #India Quotes #Archives Quotes

“Cut down on your use of plastic shopping bags because many end up in the ocean.”

Source : "The Office‘s Angela Kinsey Gets Serious About Sea Turtles" by Tamar Abrams, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 16, 2010.
“I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.”

Source : "The Impact of the Six-Day War: A Twenty-Year Assessment". Book by Stephen J. Roth, 1988.
“She liked to imagine that when she passed, the world looked after her, but she also knew how anonymous she was. Except when she was at work, no one knew where she was at any time of day and no one waited for her. It was immaculate anonymity.”
“I suppose sometimes it takes getting lost to enjoy the joy of being found”

Source : FaceBook post by Tricia Goyer from Aug 16, 2013
“What is normal? Normal is only ordinary; mediocre. Life belongs to the rare, exceptional individual who dares to be different.”
“If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we do?”
“Anyone who is not investing now is missing a tremendous opportunity.”
“Well, it seems that one day Dylan was drivin' up to San Francisco from New Orleans or somewhere, when our record [House of the Rising Sun] came over his radio. When it was announced he said to Joan Baez -- who was with him at the time -- 'This'll be the first time I've heard this version', although it was number one in the States. So he listened to it, stopped the car, ran round the car five times, banged his head on the bumper and began leapin' about shouting 'It's great! It's great!'”

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