"I try very hard to tell stories and not lecture. I try to approach things as an amateur and not an expert, so that when I'm doing something, I'm starting out in a place a lot like where my readers start out - which is to say, naÃ¯ve."

-- Michael Pollan

#Trying Quotes #Experts Quotes #Stories Quotes

“If you walk across my camera I will flash the world your story.”
“I can not give you the reference of Ram Chandar or Krishna, because they were not historical figures. I can not help it but to present to you the names of (Hazrat) Abu Bakar (RA) and (Hazrat) Umar Farooq (RA). They were leaders of a vast Empire, yet they lived a life of austerity.”
“When I was younger, I was just always looking for this hot, so hot, like super-hot girl. And then, as I've gotten older, different things are really important to me, like just honesty. Being able to sit down and have a conversation.”

Source : Source: www.gq.com
“We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.”
“Sometimes when I'm in a bookstore or library, I am overwhelmed by all the things that I do not know. Then I am seized by a powerful desire to read all the books, one by one.”
“People think the earth is going to die and they have to save it. Thats ridiculous. If you rid the earth of flowering plants, people would die, period. But the earth was without flowering plants for almost all of its history.”

Source : "Attack of the Microbiologists" by Elizabeth Royte, www.nytimes.com. January 14, 1996.
“The idea of going on a spiritual journey is really part of the DNA of India itself.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“The rights of children as individuals begin while yet they remain the foetus...Whoever has read the 'Weekly' knows I hold abortion (except to save the life of the mother) to be just as much murder as the killing of a person after birth is murder.”

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