Chotta Quotes & Sayings

All the criminals do their work on the screen, which people can see. Politicians work behind the screen, which the public can't see.1 - Gang leader Chotta Shakeel, in Suketu Mehta, Maximum City — Dinesh D'Souza

What will this boaster produce worthy of this mouthing? The mountains are in labor; a ridiculous mouse will be born.
[Lat., Quid dignum tanto feret hic promissor hiatu?
Parturiunt montes; nascetur ridiculus mus.] — Horace

Fasting cleanses the soul, raises the mind, subjects one's flesh to the spirit, renders the heart contrite and humble, scatters the clouds of concupiscence, quenches the fire of lust, and kindles the true light of chastity. Enter again into yourself. — Saint Augustine

I don't know if I'm a daredevil, exactly, but I do enjoy a good challenge. It's the only way you grow. — Natalie Dormer

I wanted to be a pariah, because all my heroes were cult artists, people who devoted their lives to poking into very narrow, very deep corners - Erik Satie, Alfred Jarry, Malcolm Lowry - people who suffered in order to express their vision of life. — Jim Woodring

The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting. — Alfred Sisley

Sometimes you have to stop and ask yourself who's really stupid, the guys who stop and pick you up, or you, for being out here in the first place? - excerpt from: freefalling — Darlenne Susan Girard

Your inner beliefs could be more influential on the size and shape of your body than your genes are. — Crystal Dwyer Hansen

But though he lacked the gift of intimacy, in many ways his supportive love still came through to me. He somehow conveyed his belief in me without ever articulating it, and that was the single most sustaining thing in my life. — Katharine Graham

Man is homo religiosus, by 'nature' religious: as much as he needs food to eat or air to breathe, he needs a faith for living. — Will Herberg

The statistics John Wesson has compiled in The Science of Soccer show that Premiership football players are vastly more likely to have been born in the first half of the school year. These were the biggest boys in the class and were thus selected for the school team. How fair is that? — Daniel Finkelstein

And I swear that I don't have a gun ... no I don't have a gun — Kurt Cobain

My list of things I never pictured myself saying when I pictured myself as a parent has grown over the years. — Polly Berrien Berends

Be kind to dragons, for thou art crunchy when toasted and taste good with ketchup. (Sebastian) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Sometimes all the 'marketing' insight in the world can't move a client, but the creation of a truly great brand name can become a billion-dollar idea! — George Lois

how foolish I was ever to have thought that professors were intellectual giants. They're people - and afraid the rest of the world will find out. — Daniel Keyes