quotes about Roughness

“All I know is that I have two choices – stay wrapped in blankets and get on with dying, or get the list back together and get on with living.”

“Once you start, there is no end to who is to go in and who is to be left out.”

“Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.”

Source : Madhav Pundalik Pandit, Sri Aurobindo (1992). “Dictionary of Sri Aurobindo's Yoga”, p.182, Lotus Press

“'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.”

“In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.”

“People would be so much more interesting if they'd behave like who they are, and not like what they think others expect them to be.”

“If you are alone, tell some stories to yourself. This is a different kind of pleasure and it has, indeed, its reward. I have tasted a little of everything, and I have truly never enjoyed anything more.”

“When you've only got few days of rehearsal before you're in the studio, it's wonderful to start off with people that you have good, friendly, tolerable relationships to start with, for the simple reason that you don't have to spend 24 hours figuring out how sensitive they are, and can you give them a line reading, or how do you have to give them direction.”

“Newspapers are a centre of public culture. We can’t give in to extortion.”

“You know, when Arnold Palmer came on TV with an old tractor and told me to buy Pennzoil, I bought that, and when Dale Jarrett advertises UPS, I can go along with that, too. But I don't think having an 18-year-old, somebody who's probably gotten five packages in his life and they were all 'Girls Gone Wild' videos, tell me what delivery service I should use would have much effect on me.”