Colourism In India Quotes & Sayings

In trying to be concise I become obscure. — Horace

Always remember that writing is an alliance between author and reader. With every line we put down on the page, we need to leave room for the reader's imagination and intellect. — Hal Zina Bennett

So it comes to this; one doesn't need rest. Why bother about sleep if one isn't sleepy? That stands to reason, doesn't it? Wait a minute, there's a snag somewhere; something disagreeable. Why, now, should it be disagreeable? ... Ah, I see; it's life without a break. — Jean-Paul Sartre

We were big Saturday Night Live and Eddie Murphy fans. — Illeana Douglas

No society has fulfilled its democratic promise if people go hungry ... If some go without food they have surely been deprived of all power. The existence of hunger belies the existence of democracy. — Frances Moore Lappe

I would like my books to stand as a tool to unbind children from expectations of poetry because it should free the child to self-expression and exploration. — Masiela Lusha

We believe what we want to believe, what we like to believe, what suits our prejudices and fuels our passions. — Sydney J. Harris

Corporate executives and businessmen do not. So somebody who wants to invest in a dam or build a steel plant or a buy a bauxite mine is not considered a security hazard, whereas a scholar who might wish to participate in a seminar about, say, displacement or communalism, or rising malnutrition in a globalized economy, is. Foreign terrorists with bad intentions have probably guessed by now that they are better off wearing Prada suits and pretending they want to buy a mine than wearing old corduroys and saying they want to attend a seminar. (Some would argue that mine buyers in Prada suits are the real terrorists.) — Arundhati Roy

Voroshilov was a hard-riding, hard-drinking military crony of civil-war days. — Kliment Voroshilov

Lucius didn't believe in werewolves. He said that people were too horrible for any other monsters to exist, which he thought was a shame. — Rasmenia Massoud

There are too many politicians in the world and too few statesmen. — Adi Godrej

luck was really stubbornness married to a knack for observation, a fluid sense of the truth, a sharp ear for lies, and a deeply suspicious nature. They'd — Michael Chabon