Exotic Marigold Hotel Quotes & Sayings

Anxiety and lust are evicting the older passions. — Mason Cooley

I've always thought of myself as a character actor, even though I've played some leading-man roles. — Malcolm Gets

Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there an also dropped hammer. — John Ruskin

No lawyer can afford to be ignorant of the Bible. — Rufus Choate

I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends. — Carl Sandburg

Satan, who is a wonderful contriver of delusions, is constantly laying snares to entrap ignorant and heedless people. — John Calvin

This art of conservation is strength, and makes the masterpiece a masterpiece. Otherwise, the man who simply brought all the different colors obtainable, and squeezed them out upon the canvas to give it 'full force,' would be the greatest master, instead of being merely extravagant. — John F. Carlson

Egypt: Where the Israelites would still be if Moses had been a bureaucrat. — Laurence J. Peter

Nobody's going to save you. No one's going to cut you down, cut the thorns thick around you. No one's going to storm the castle walls nor kiss awake your birth, climb down your hair, nor mount you onto the white steed. There is no one who will feed the yearning. Face it. You will have to do, do it yourself. — Gloria E. Anzaldua

Live an active life among people who are doing worthwhile things, keep eyes and ears and mind and heart open to absorb truth, and then tell of the things you know, as if you know them. The world will listen, for the world loves nothing so much as real life. — Dale Carnegie

'The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel' is a British comedy-drama directed by John Madden. The film is based on the 2004 novel, 'These Foolish Things', by Deborah Moggach. — Tena Desae

Wouldn't. Think. About. Ian. — Jude Watson

I am simply unable to understand the value placed by so many people upon great wealth. — Theodore Roosevelt

I do believe that we baby-boomers are reinventing ageing as we enter it. We're living longer and expecting more from life; the success of 'The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel,' and other films and novels about finding love late in life, have shown that if we're up for it, there are adventures awaiting us. — Deborah Moggach

What I believe to be memories are probably daydreams. Still, my own sentimentality yearns for them as if they were the truth, suspect or twisted though they may be. I have forgotten that they were stories I heard from another and feel an intimacy with them as if they were my own direct memories"
-from "Oil — Yasunari Kawabata

Avoid the necessity of a physician, if you can, by careful attention to your diet. Eat what best agrees with your system, and resolutely abstain from what hurts you, however well you may like it. A few days' abstinence, and cold water for a beverage, has driven off many an approaching disease. — Lydia M. Child

Amazing grace! how sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me!
I once was lost but now am found,
Was blind but now i see. — John Newton

Can we be blamed for feeling we're too old to change? Too scared of disappointment to start it all again? We get up every morning, we do our best. Nothing else matters. — Deborah Moggach