Jamaluddin Ahmed Quotes & Sayings

The absurd vanity of metaphysicians who like to imagine that they create the world by thinking about it. — Edward Abbey

That was enough to make her blush with shame for the mere fact that Las Vegas existed. There — Alexander McCall Smith

Diamond, however, had not been out so late before in all his life, and things looked so strange about him! - just as if he had got into Fairyland, of which he knew quite as much as anybody;
for his mother had no money to buy books to set him wrong on the subject. — George MacDonald

Love is never as ferocious as when you think it's going to leave you. — Anita Shreve

The world of finance is a mysterious world in which, incredible as the fact may appear, evaporation precedes liquidation. First the capital evaporates, and then the company goes into liquidation. These are very unnatural physics ... — Joseph Conrad

Play the shot you've got the best chance of playing well. — Greg Norman

Stay away from excellence at all costs; it stinks. — Michael Leunig

Those things we stuff, try so hard to ignore, they are the very things begging for release
the things that hold the promise of hope, the flame of freedom. — Jo Ann Fore

We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important. — Berthold Auerbach

More and more, Democrats are starting to worry they that they have a more um, colorful version of Jimmy Carter on their hands. Obama acts cool as a proverbial cucumber but that awful '70s show seems frightfully close to a rerun. — Eric Alterman

There's this other girl called Lykke Li from Sweden - I really want to collaborate with her, that'd be great. Obviously Kanye West as well, and Drake would be pretty amazing. — Tinie Tempah

I don't understand this notion of ethnic pride. "Proud to be Irish," "Puerto Rican pride," "Black pride." It seems to me that pride should be reserved for accomplishments; things you attain or achieve, not things that happen to you by chance. Being Irish isn't a skill; it's genetic. You wouldn't say, "I'm proud to have brown hair," or "I'm proud to be short and stocky." So why the fuck should you say you're proud to be Irish? I'm Irish, but I'm not particularly proud of it. Just glad! Goddamn glad to be Irish! — George Carlin

You are the greatest achievement of your own life. — Sarah Rees Brennan