"So the self under the eye lies, Attendant and withdrawn."

-- Ted Hughes

#Lying Quotes #Eye Quotes #Self Quotes

“I am very excited to be supporting one of the world's most visionary efforts to seek basic answers to some of the fundamental question about our universe and what other civilisations may exist elsewhere.”
“Flying. Whatever any other organism has been able to do man should surely be able to do also, though he may go a different way about it.”
“I only believe in those who can still blush.”

Source : "Asfalto Selvagem: Engraçadinha, seus amores e seus pecados" by Nelson Rodrigues, Ruy Castro - Published by Companhia das Letras, (p. 175), 1994.
“Is it strange, then, that in a literature so concerned with realism and with personal liberation this refusal and impoverishment of the life of the spirit have always nourished the screamers, the eccentrics, the pseudo-Whitmans, the calculating terrorists?”

Source : Alfred Kazin (2013). “On Native Grounds: An Interpretation Of Modern American Prose Literature”, p.62, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“To seek God by rituals is to get the ritual and lose God in the process”
“The only companies that innovate are those who believe that innovation is vital for their future.”
“No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker.”
“An incident that left an impression on me was the 1999 sub-junior national boxing championship held in Calcutta. I had trained extremely hard to get there but got kicked out in the first round itself. 'If others can win, why can't you?' I repeatedly asked myself.”

Source : "Vijender Singh on Boxing, Bollywood and Modeling". Interview with Preetika Rana, blogs.wsj.com. June 1, 2012.

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