Akbars Quotes & Sayings

How can you see better of a dark night than anybody else, never mind how foolish? — Herman Melville

The case against censoring anything is absolute: ... nothing that could be censored can be so bad in its effects, in the long run, as censorship itself. — Katharine Whitehorn

The question is the primary form of communication for little kids. — Jim Gaffigan

We must learn to think in terms of an articulated structure that can cope with a multiplicity of small-scale units. If economic thinking cannot grasp this it is useless. If it cannot get beyond its vast abstractions, the national income, the rate of growth, capital/output ratio, input-output analysis, labour mobility, capital accumulation; if it cannot get beyond all this and make contact with the human realities of poverty, frustration, alienation, despair, breakdown, crime, escapism, stress, congestion, ugliness and spiritual death, then let us scrap economics and start afresh. — Ernst F. Schumacher

When I started drama school, theatre was the main draw. I never had any movie star notions. Not that there were family ties to the theatre, either. — Anne-Marie Duff

All my requests are in but one, thy Will be done. — Charles Wesley

I think I have more stamps in my passport than most stamp collectors have in their collections. — John Rhys-Davies

Oh what was the racket that backeted and smashed in raging might, to make this oil-puddle world?
— Jack Kerouac

I have two friends named Matt. They're both scouts in the cavalry. They both served in the same section of Iraq. They both worked with the same Iraqi translator. And yet, if you talk to them, their stories couldn't be more different, because one was there in 2006. One was there in 2008. — Phil Klay

Personal size and mental sorrow have certainly no necessary proportions. A large bulky figure has as good a right to be in deep affliction, as the more graceful set of limbs in the world. But, fair or not fair, there are unbecoming conjunctions, which reason will patronize in vain, - which taste cannot tolerate, - which ridicule will seize. — Jane Austen

I don't want to limit myself. I want to keep doing all sorts of roles. I guess what lies behind this urge is the conviction that movies have changed my life. And certain performances have inspired me to try to be someone different. — Rinko Kikuchi