Kamyab Quotes & Sayings

When am I going to see you?"
"Do you really want to know?"
"Very much."
"Never," I said, and hung up with a resolute click. — Sylvia Plath

Mere philosophy will not satisfy us. We cannot reach the goal by mere words alone. Without practice, nothing can be achieved. (3) — Swami Satchidananda

He shone all over. Only Magnus, Simon thought resignedly, would have access to sequined battle armor. — Cassandra Clare

When you're playing this bad of a character, it's obviously not reality for someone who's not living that life. — Michael Rapaport

It does seem, in other words, not only more difficult for a woman experimental writer to be accepted than for a woman writer (which corresponds to the male situation of experimental writer vs. writer), but also peculiarly more difficult for a woman experimental writer to be accepted than for a male experimental writer. She may, if young, get caught up in a "movement," like Djuna Barnes, like H.D., like Laura Riding, as someone's mistress, and then be forgotten, or if old, she maybe "admitted" into a group, under a label, but never quite as seriously considered as the men in that group. — Christine Brooke-Rose

And that's how we ended up discovering the evil horses that threatened all of humanity. — Katherine Applegate

Not only am I constantly seeking better performance but also to be a better person, to be respected. — Yani Tseng

I can always tell if someone's from Harvard because they trot out their vitae. I would die at Harvard. — Junot Diaz

Was there happiness at the end [of the movie], they wanted to know.
If someone were to ask me today whether the story of Hassan, Sohrab, and me ends with happiness, I wouldn't know what to say.
Does anybody's?
After all, life is not a Hindi movie. Zendagi migzara, Afghans like to say: Life goes on, undmindful of beginning, en, kamyab, nah-kam, crisis or catharsis, moving forward like a slow, dusty caravan of kochis. — Khaled Hosseini

It is the end of a family- when they begin to sell their land. Out of the land we came and into we must go - and if you will hold your land you can live- no one can rob you of land. — Pearl S. Buck

He talked and talked because he didn't know what to say. — Dacia Maraini

I use biography, I use literary connections (as with Platen - this seems to me extremely helpful for appreciating the nuances of Mann's and Aschenbach's sexuality), I use philosophical sources (but not in the way many Mann critics do, where the philosophical theses and concepts seem to be counters to be pushed around rather than ideas to be probed), and I use juxtapositions with other literary works (including Mann's other fiction) and with works of music. — Philip Kitcher