Harishankar Parsai Quotes & Sayings

The proposition of Mr. Ricardo, which states that a rise in the price of labour lowers the price of a large class of commodities, has undoubtedly a very paradoxical air; but it is, nevertheless, true, and the appearance of paradox would vanish, if it were stated more naturally and correctly. — Thomas Malthus

Take solace in the fact that you can quit at any time. I cannot.] — Chuck Klosterman

That audience is there for me. — GG Allin

Espionage is not supposed to be sporting, otherwise it would not be clandestine. — Khalid Muhammad

How do I know why Miles walks off the stage? Why don't you ask him? And besides, maybe we'd all like to be like Miles, and just haven't got the guts. — Dizzy Gillespie

Joe Biden was first elected to the Senate in 1972 at age 30. Somewhere around 1992, he should have had to go out and get a real job. — Howie Carr

Just remember, the things we write, they aren't always really us. — Scott Westerfeld

At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives. — Robert Farrar Capon

People from the past always seem to have much more time to create beautiful, intricate, delicate things that often reach the future in a kind of curled-up, capsized state. — Robyn Hitchcock

We are in the process of making the English language gender-neutral, and manliness, the quality of one gender, or rather, of one sex, seems to describe the essence of the enemy we are attacking, the evil we are eradicating. — Harvey Mansfield

Those are pretty. Did he leave you your dignity after he cut you up?"
"Asshole." Shelby didn't flinch. There was no pity in his voice, just the familiar shit talk. "You got a lot of room to talk. Looks like someone tried to cut your dick off but missed."
"Good thing too or I wouldn't be able to make your mother scream every night. — Mercy Celeste

If I feel in need of sleep, I just open a book or turn on the television. Both are better than any sleeping pill. — Ethel Merman

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

My music and my lyrics are essentially emotional postcards. — Sarah McLachlan

I pursue no intentions, no directions; I have no program, no style and no mission. — Gerhard Richter