Iskeems Quotes & Sayings

Russian cars are silly. They look like imports drawn by a cartoonist for a UAW newsletter. — P. J. O'Rourke

Every part of him wants to scream: is this not wrong? But here it is right. — Anthony Doerr

Madame, may I see your dog's chit, please, — Kenneth Oppel

Happy is the woman who can laugh at herself. She will never cease to be amused. — Charlene Vermeulen

Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Me, I was already jaded and tarnished, skeptical that a fantasy world could keep reality at bay. — Jodi Picoult

There is a great deal of self-will in the world, but very little genuine independence of character. — Frederick William Faber

Man has not changed. Man still rejects the testimony of the Scripture. — Billy Graham

America is just the country that how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society. — Peter Kropotkin

Melissa popped open the clattery little Rotring tin. Pencils, putty rubber, scalpel. She sharpened a 3B, letting the curly shavings fall into the wicker bin, then paused for a few seconds, finding a little place of stillness before starting to draw the flowers. Art didn't count at school because it didn't get you into law or banking or medicine. It was just a fluffy thing stuck to the side of Design and Technology, a free A level for kids who could do it, like a second language, but she loved charcoal and really good gouache, she loved rolling sticky black ink on to a lino plate and heaving on the big black arm of the Cope press, the quiet and those big white walls. — Mark Haddon

I would rather wear honest tears than the most beautiful and elaborately faked smile. — Tyler Knott Gregson

I will drink life to the lees. — Alfred Tennyson

In the winter of 1987 India was full of iskeems that had gone awry. Agricultural iskeems, political iskeems, economic iskeems, educational iskeems, stop black money iskeems, attract white tourists iskeems, drinkable water iskeems, animal protection iskeems, women's welfare iskeems, nurture children iskeems, don't scan female foetus iskeems, privatization iskeems, medical iskeems, entertainment iskeems, old India iskeems and new India iskeems.
We had mastered the art of nomenclature from the white man.
Grand labels could disguise unforgivable things. — Tarun J. Tejpal