Indostan Quotes & Sayings

Fundamentalism fills you with answers before you even think to ask the questions. — Robert M. Price

There was a time when conservative intellectuals raised the level of American public debate and helped to keep it sober. Those days are gone. As for political judgment, the promotion of Sarah Palin as a possible world leader speaks for itself. The Republican Party and the political right will survive, but the conservative intellectual tradition is already dead. And all of us, even liberals like myself, are poorer for it. — Mark Lilla

Bush has never sent over a balanced budget. — Chaka Fattah

I think it's essential for writers to be involved in the recording process as things can often go wrong in this area. Voice actors are all too often presented with a wad of XL sheets, no proper character notes, context or reference and are just expected to perform. — Rhianna Pratchett

The retinue of a grandee in China or Indostan accordingly is, by all accounts, much more numerous and splendid than that of the richest subjects of Europe. — Adam Smith

You don't get nothing and like it. — Billie Joe Armstrong

How little the public realizes what a girl must go through before she finally appears before the spotlight that is thrown upon the stage. — Florenz Ziegfeld

There is the same difference between talent and genius that there is between a stone mason and a sculptor — Robert Green Ingersoll

'You've got mail!' exclaims the cheery automaton at America Online. The flag on the mailbox icon waves invitingly on my computer screen. For a second, I'm 10 years old again, waiting for the postman's whistle to slice the stillness of an Australian afternoon. — Geraldine Brooks

Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself. — Mohsin Hamid

I always get so overwhelmed trying to do everything perfectly. I can't do a job and not put everything I have into it. I need to be the best employee, the best co-worker, the best whatever. I need everyone to like me and I just burn out bending over backward to make that happen. Having people be mad at me is my worst fear. I can't stand it. There is this crazy fear I have of being rejected by anyone - even people I don't really care about. It's always better to leave them first, cut all ties, and disappear. They can't hurt me that way - no one can. — Nic Sheff