"I used singing as a safety measure. I would pay attention to what songs the popular girls liked, learn those songs from the radio or library cassettes, and then "accidentally" sing or hum these songs in class. This would impress the girls, who would then defend me from the boys."

-- Vivek Shraya

#Girl Quotes #Song Quotes #Boys Quotes

“Compassion is easily forsaken in the midst of prosperity, even when this prosperity is God given.”
“If you had a pill that would guarantee a pitcher 20 wins, but might take five years off his life, he'd take it.”

Source : Jim Bouton (1970). “Ball four: my life and hard times throwing the knuckleball in the Big Leagues”, Dell Pub Co
“If I stop making films, I will die. I can tell myself that one day I will stop living. But I cannot bear the fact that the day will come when I will no longer be making films.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“A good use for me is to let me go away with my sewing machine and come back with some really new stuff.”
“Being human totally sucks most of the time. Videogames are the only thing that make life bearable.”
“There is a book yearning to come out of me: about how we can build the new collaboration economy, and the role of 'openness' in our quest for efficient use of resources and as a driver of innovation.”
“The Beatles have a deeper appreciation of all music. There's a humor, there's a Broadway sense, and later on, the Indian stuff came in. The Beatles were always taking in stuff and filtering stuff out to us. There's such a classical sense of arrangement, and their harmonies-what the Beatles did vocally is amazing.”
“We all share beauty. It strikes us indiscriminately. There is no end to the beauty for the person who is aware. Even the cracks between the sidewalk contain geometric patterns of amazing beauty. If we take pictures of them and blow up the photographs, we realize we walk on beauty every day, even when things seem ugly around us.”

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