Mansions Global Quotes & Sayings

He said. Academy alumni with quantitative skills go on to become stockbrokers. There are damned few patrician scientists. — Natalie Angier

Millions of Nepalese have swelled the armies of cheap mobile labour that drive the global economy, serving in Indian brothels, Thai and Malaysian sweatshops, the mansions of oil sheikhs in the Gulf, and, most recently, the war zones of Iraq. Many more have migrated internally, often from the hills to the subtropical Tarai region on the long border with India. The Tarai produces most of the country's food and cash crops and accommodates half of its population. On its flat alluvial land, where malaria was only recently eradicated, the Buddha was born twenty-five hundred years ago; it is also where a generation of displaced Nepalese began to dream of revolution. — Pankaj Mishra

This, then, is the global significance of Chungking Mansions. It is a building of the periphery within a city of the core, a city located between the developing world's manufacturing hub and its poorest nether regions. It is a ghetto of middle-class striving within a city of wealthier middle-class striving, viewing its denizens with fear and scorn yet letting business as usual be the law of the day. Chungking — Gordon Mathews

There aren't too many people out there who can start one of my books and not finish it. I don't think too many writers can say that. — Joy Fielding

I'm cursed with this puritanical streak that makes me want everything to be about something. It's a terrible affliction. — Kenneth Oppel

I can't be an ingenue forever, and I wouldn't want to be. — Lea Salonga

I am ashamed of my century, but I have to smile. — Frank O'Hara

But work a year and sleep an hour, and sleep a night and sing a day, And take a little wine and love, and when you feel religious - pray. — Ridgely Torrence