Durga Puja Famous Quotes & Sayings

Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. — Thomas Gray

It's important to be thankful, even if you're poor. I mean, come on, we all have clean water - well OK, not people in the developing world. — Avril Lavigne

The intention (of the puja pandals) is not so much to entertain as to disorient and astonish; to tap into the Bengali's appetite for the bizarre, the uncanny. — Amit Chaudhuri

To suppose that safety-first consists in having a small gamble in a large number of different companies where I have no information to reach a good judgment, as compared with a substantial stake in a company where one's information is adequate, strikes me as a travesty of investment policy. — John Maynard Keynes

A mobile home with a flat tire is a home. — Demetri Martin

I've been in training for stardom. — Bernie Mac

Even fools seem smart when they are quiet. — Robin Williams

May everyone be happy and safe, and may their hearts be filled with joy. — Gautama Buddha

Although I'm weak and full of flaws, I will never stop moving forward. No matter who I am, no one other than myself will create my own existence. No matter what others may think or feel, I will still move forward as myself. — Jun Mochizuki

For feverish mornings after he left, she lay awake in that guest room in their house, in the rumples of the sheet he had slept in. She would get him on every turn: his aftershave lingering on the sides of the pillow that sometimes caught her, waking up from her dreams of him, in nuclear nights, his gaze: drenching her like water drops on burning rocks. She herself didn't have any smell. He had to really lean in the first time to make out the attar amidst the freckles on her neck. And then there would be at least two, never only one: Jasmine and that other thing that he could never place- a smell that was between imitation pearls and the insides of a Durga Puja afternoon. On some days even in Simla, this she, would waft in by his collars nonchalantly.'
('Left from Dhakeshwari') — Kunal Sen

The furnishings she'd chosen reminded him of the woman who lived here. Nothing to admire, and yet he wished to be here. To stay here and be surrounded by rooms that settled him. He was at ease, and the longer he stayed, the more he found to like. — Carolyn Jewel