Amishi Desai Quotes & Sayings

I was falling in love with myself. Not that beauty, or life itself, means much if you're in a room on your own. Heaven is other people. — Hanif Kureishi

Are you an atheist?"
"Oh no, I honor all the gods."
"And how many belong to that all?"
"Countless. And one."
"How meaningless!"
"'Oliness, let me hear you count to one."
"One."
"Point at that one."
Brownpony stirred restlessly. Finally he tapped his index finger against his temple.
Wooshin laughed quietly. "Wrong. You had to think about it too long. And you didn't count to one. You counted from one and stopped. The one is countless. — Walter M. Miller Jr.

I'm an artist and I can draw very well. I'm amazed that everybody can't draw well because I can do it so effortlessly. — Jerry Lawler

I've admired Alicia Keys since before I got into the music industry, just everything she represents as a female artist. — Melanie Fiona

Tragedy is clean, it is restful, it is flawless. — Jean Anouilh

And you couldn't control who you loved, even if you wanted to. That had been Genevieve's problem with Ethan Carter Wate. It had been Uncle Macon's problem with Lila, Link's with Ridley. Probably even Ridley's with Link.
Love was how all these knots started to unravel in the first place. — Kami Garcia

Lonely people, in talking to each other, can make each other lonelier. — Lillian Hellman

If we find it hard to believe that winning millions might not be so lucky after all, we just don't have a good enough imagination. If I fantasise about winning the lottery, it doesn't take long before all sorts of worrisome potential consequences occur to me. — Julian Baggini

The U.S. government has in recent years fought what it termed wars against AIDs, drug abuse, poverty, illiteracy and terrorism. Each of those wars has budgets, legislation, offices, officials, letterhead - everything necessary in a bureaucracy to tell you something is real. — Bruce Jackson

they must create the environment for action. In June 1967 Robert Kennedy said,
"Few will have the greatness to bend history itself. But each of us can work to
change a small portion of events. And in the total of all those acts, will be written
the history of this generation" (p. 237). — Daniel P. Modaff