Farrokh Quotes & Sayings

Why is it that crisis pushes me to my own devices when those devices are frequently the very things that produced my crisis in the first place? — Craig D. Lounsbrough

...People stop, stare. No one stop and stare if one of your own beggars drop dead in street. No just step over him like he is a stone, or a dog turd and go away quickly. But when they see a white man with golden hair lying on the street, everyone stop, everyone cry, "Hai - hai, - poor boy, call doctor, call ambulance. What has happen, Farrokh-bhai?"..."

- Farrokh said to Baumgartner when he wanted to get rid of the reluctant, overly drugged homeless foreigner out of his restaurant. (Page 167) — Anita Desai

You should listen to these people, Farrokh," his father was telling him. "It isn't necessary for them to be your moral equals in order for you to learn something from them. — John Irving

I was fortunate enough to be one of those stories where I was scouted on the street by somebody and actually refused to go to the agency, and was approached on different occasions and finally kind of caved and said, 'OK, I'll try it and see what happens.' — Evangeline Lilly

Old Lowji's nasty remark would haunt Farrokh forever: "Immigrants are immigrants all their lives!" Once someone makes such a negative pronouncement, you might refute it but you never forget it; some ideas are so vividly planted, they become visible objects, actual things. — John Irving

I'm not interested in parts where they are looking for a good-looking guy. I want to be a weird little sidekick in a crazy comedy and then play like a dark drama or a thriller. — Alexander Skarsgard

The man of system ... is apt to be very wise in his own conceit; and is often so enamoured with the supposed beauty of his own ideal plan of government, that he cannot suffer the smallest deviation from any part of it ... He seems to imagine that he can arrange the different members of a great society with as much ease as the hand arranges the different pieces upon a chess-board. He does not consider that in the great chess-board of human society, every single piece has a principle of motion of its own, altogether different from that which the legislature might choose to impress upon it. — Adam Smith

You can't expect a man to change in one day by watching a film, right? — Mithun Chakraborty

Denial, panic, threats, anger - those are very human responses to feeling guilt. — Joshua Oppenheimer

God is in the rain. — Alan Moore

Luck, you see, brings bitter friends. — John Steinbeck

The day's dashed hopes had temporarily reduced her to the childish presumption that someone she loved should, in return for that love, be able to read her mind. — Myla Goldberg

Without music the world will still turn, but it won't rock. — Fran Drescher

I tell my kids they are going to live to over 100. — Michael Douglas

But there's a school of thought that says if you're going to go down in flames anyway, you might as well be the one lighting the matches. — Timothy Zahn

It's dangerous to start attributing your fortunes to luck and your misfortunes to fate. — Nancy Pickard

They had grown so fast that it was as if they had never been born. — Faridoun Farrokh