Farhang Foundation Quotes & Sayings

Challenges Ahead? Huh! Who cares! I am a CA, Chartered Accountant. — Vikrmn

It is a foible of our human nature that when we have an extremely unpleasant experience, it gives us a peculiar satisfaction if it is "the biggest" of its disagreeable kind that has happened since the world began. During a heat wave, for instance, we are very pleased if the papers announce that it is "the highest temperature reached since the year 1881," and we feel a little resentment towards the year 1881 for having gone us one better. Or if our ears are frozen till all the skin peels off, it fills us with a certain happiness to learn that "it was the hardest frost recorded since 1786." It is just the same with wars. The war in progress is either the most righteous or the bloodiest, or the most successful, or the longest, since such and such a time; any superlative whatever always affords us the proud satisfaction of having been through something extraordinary and record-breaking. — Karel Capek

I don't see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can. — Adam Rapp

In short - to overstate the point only slightly - because people don't really know why they do what they do, they give explanations of their own behavior that are about as reliable as anyone else's, and in many circumstances actually less so. — Kwame Anthony Appiah

I'm fine,' lied Richard bravely, to no one in particular. — Neil Gaiman

Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is a determination that there is something more important than fear. — David Paul Kirkpatrick

But this, too, you could say, is part of the American story, as we have always been people who move on, leaving behind wreckage and fragments in our wake. — Colin Dickey

Fun, that's the word I keep on using. That's the word I worry about when other writer's scripts get too dark. Optimistic. Fun. And to be optimistic and have fun there's got to be a darkness there. I think that's a very British attitude. — Russell T. Davies

Streets full of water. Please Advise. — Robert Benchley