Nayana

“You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

“We thought we only wanted X, but having read this application, it seems important to expand our thinking to include Y.”
― Karen Kelsky, The Professor Is In: The Essential Guide to Turning Your Ph.D. into a Job

“you threw a stone into a gutter it would only spurt filth in your face.”
― R.K. Narayan, Malgudi Days

“A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the center of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy. At teh end of the lecture, a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said: "What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise." The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, "What is the tortoise standing on?" "You're very clever, young man, very clever, " said the old lady. "But it turtles all the way down!”
― Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time