Alpana Quotes & Sayings

Over there, in Europe, all was shame and anger. Here it was exile or solitude, among these languid and agitated madmen who danced in order to die. — Albert Camus

It takes a great deal of labor and love to make ice wine. When you have it with dessert, you miss the point of enjoying it on its own. — Alpana Singh

From a very strategic level, I believe the military is part of the solution to better outcomes around the world, but at a higher level, it's really about economies. — Michael Mullen

And there are really never endings, happy or otherwise. — Erin Morgenstern

By 1986 the CIA was spending 70 per cent of its entire operations budget funding a Muslim jihad to kill Russians. The whole campaign was managed by a bunch of Islamists who were giving the lion's share of the US money and weapons to people who wanted to kill Americans. The US was happy to use Islam as a rallying cry. The CIA funded the printing of Korans to be distributed throughout the region, and the University of Nebraska produced primary-school textbooks, known as 'the ABC of Jihad', which taught children the alphabet and to count with Kalashnikovs and swords instead of apples and oranges, and were filled with images of Islamic warriors. Alphabet — Christina Lamb

Books are my one luxury. — Stella Vine

Don Knotts was a really big influence, especially on the Steve Allen show. I mean, look at the guy, his entire life is in his face. — Tim Conway

People don't come to Asheville very often, and they don't know I'm there. I enjoy it. I like it. — Jules Shear

When I was dating and the wine list was presented to my male companion, I tried to ignore this unfortunate faux pas. But this practice still goes on ... Closing note to all servers and sommeliers: please include women in wine selection. Okay? — Alpana Singh

Through care taken over trends, the desire to be novel and affectation knowledge, we repudiate our art, our instinct, our own way of doing things; it is absurd and stupid — Giuseppe Verdi

I've been audited for many, many years in a row, which I think is unfair, but that's the way it is. — Donald Trump

Any CEO who cannot clearly articulate the intangible assets of his brand and understand its connection to customers, is in trouble. — Charlotte Beers

Anticlimax is, of course, the warp and way of things. Real life seldom structures a decent denouement. — Anonymous

All encounters with children are touched with social embarrassment. — Sylvia Townsend Warner