Age Quotes - Page 115

The very first lesson that I learnt from the Qur'an was the message of unity and peace.

You have resources yet to be unleashed. Make bold, courageous choices. Live as though you have the power to change the world - because you do.

I think my mother... made it clear that you have to live life by your own terms and you have to not worry about what other people think and you have to have the courage to do the unexpected.

Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.

The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.

The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.

As long as you are curious, you defeat age.

Most of the bright people don't work for you - no matter who you are.

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.

It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.

Language grows out of life, out of its needs and experiences. 828

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.

The saying goes, 'The sage rests, truly rests and is at ease.' This manifests itself in calmness and detachment, so that worries and distress cannot affect him, nothing unpleasant can disturb him, his Virtue is complete and his spirit is not stirred up.

Forget the adage buy low and sell high.

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.

I was a teenage godmother.

Art as language....in the future there will only be art. This common language will carry the message of love.

No matter how expert you may be, well-designed checklists can improve outcomes.

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

I learnt to sing in Bengali, my mother tongue, then went on to sing in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati and every possible Indian language.

I suppose, I hoped, by setting a particularly brutal ancient rite in the present and in my own village to shock the story's readers with a graphic dramatization of the pointless violence and general inhumanity in their own lives.

If a story doesn't give you a hard-on in the first couple of scenes, throw it in the goddamned garbage.

Every age has its temptations, its weaknesses, its dangers. Ours is in the line of the snobbish and the sordid.