Airand Quotes & Sayings

It is an ancient and venerated custom of people in my country to start a story by praying to a Higher Power.
"I guess, Your Excellency, that I too should start off by kissing some god's arse.
"Which god's arse, though? There are so many choices.
"See, the Muslims have one god.
"The Christians have three gods.
"And we Hindus have 36,000,004 divine arses to choose from. — Aravind Adiga

My own preference, as a reader, for this sort of book, is to experience the closest possible equivalent to culture shock. I want to go to new, strange places, feel lost, and then (probably with quite a few subtle nudges on the author's part) gradually figure out where I am and what the heck's going on. As a reader, I enjoy few things more. From feedback, I know that I'm not alone in that, but also that some readers find it too demanding. But it's impossible to take care of both sides of that particular aisle at once. If you make it through the book, though, then go back and reread the beginning, you may find that you actually enjoy it this time, because everything's as coherent as I was able to make it, and you already know where you are. — William Gibson

The finite human being shall never know in its fullness Truth and Love which is itself infinite. — Mahatma Gandhi

I'm gonna film my entire life and watch it later! — Doug Stanhope

Forgiving others simply means that you refuse to be a prisoner of a past that you can't change, and shackled to decisions that you didn't make. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Sensing us, the trees tremble in their sleep, The living leaves recoil before our fires, Baring to us war-charred and broken branches, And seeing theirs, we for our own destruction weep. — Kathleen Raine

What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my own, intersect with the public life of the culture. — Salman Rushdie

Progress in painting, there's no such thing! ... One day I went and changed the yellow on my palette. Well, the result was, I floundered for ten years! — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Trade is a social act. — John Stuart Mill

How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven't I done time enough, haven't I served my term? can't I apply for a-pardon? — Tennessee Williams

I used to do a lot of video analysis early on, but more for pleasure and looking at my own technique. — Roger Federer

The AvowalAs swimmers dareto lie face to the skyand water bears them,as hawks rest upon airand air sustains them;so would I learn to attain freefall, and floatinto Creator Spirit's deep embrace,knowing no effort earnsthat all-surrounding grace. — Denise Levertov

I eat everything. I still like to go to Peter Luger once in a while. — Jean-Georges Vongerichten

What you picture in your mind, your mind will go to work to accomplish. When you change your pictures you automatically change your performance — Zig Ziglar