Basmati Quotes & Sayings

Can you believe it? Fifty miles from McDonald's. I didn't think there was anywhere in the world that was fifty miles from McDonald's. — Neil Gaiman

Looking a dead insect in the sack of basmati that had come all the way from Dehra Dun, he almost wept with sorrow and marvel at its journey, which was tenderness for his own journey. In India almost nobody would be able to afford this rice, and you had to travel around the world to be able to eat such things where they were cheap enough that you could gobble them down without being rich; and when you got home to the place where they grew, you couldn't afford them anymore. — Kiran Desai

Over in Hollywood they almost made a great picture, but they caught it in time. — Wilson Mizner

It was a superstition among them that a lover who smoked would always return, even from France. A man's sexual capacity might be injured by smoking, but they would always prefer a faithful to a potent lover. — Graham Greene

Egotism is such a terrible disease, he dies, to be reincarnated he continues coming and going. — Guru Gobind Singh

While sex heads a great number of lists, we all have other things we like to do in between. — Roger Zelazny

I continue to enjoy looking for stories, and trying to do the best job I can reporting and writing them. — Bob Greene

A man touched me: his hand ... my thigh. I touched him too: my fist ... his jaw. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I have met the people who run the world, and I am not in awe of them. — Ken Livingstone

We think we know what it's all about; we think that disability is a really simple thing, and we don't expect to see disabled people in our daily lives. — Stella Young

Instead of exhausting ourselves trying to reshape the world to fit our dreams, we are better off using our strength to comfort one another in a world that is almost certain to mock our dreams and break our hearts. — Harold S. Kushner

That had always been my purpose: to get people back in touch with what makes us so valuable as a human race. — George Lucas

Painters are not in any way unsociable through pride, but either because they find few pursuits equal to painting, or in order not to corrupt themselves with the useless conversation of idle people, and debase the intellect from the lofty imaginations in which they are always absorbed. — Michelangelo