Mehernosh Mistry Quotes & Sayings

Henry liked to put to himself when he was a schoolboy: what are the chances of this particular fish, from that shoal, off that continental shelf ending up in the pages of this copy of the Daily Mirror? Something just short of infinity to one. Similarly, the grains of sand on a beach, arranged just so. The random ordering of the world, the unimaginable odds against any particular condition, still please him. Even as a child, and especially after Aberfan, he never believed in fate or providence, or the future being made by someone in the sky. Instead, at every instant, a trillion trillion possible futures; the pickiness of pure chance and physical laws seemed like freedom from the scheming of a gloomy god. — Ian McEwan

The 85 Percent Solution: Getting started is more important than becoming an expert. — Ramit Sethi

I never understood, what a starving artist was until I became one. — Mary Sage Nguyen

I have had bullets flying at concerts, but I don't want to talk about that. — Zubin Mehta

the broadening of cultural perspectives can in turn broaden the range not only of what can be sensed but what can be perceived. — Ivo Dominguez

Bashar Assad has said many things. We will see in the near term whether he is serious about a political process. — Adel Al-Jubeir

We see systematically taught in our high schools today that kids not have to hear their parents, that they can make their own rules, and not even live by what their parents, so there's no guidance from the parents. And there's a concerted effort why - government must be their God. — Rafael Cruz

Although it may seem callous to say so, millions of Americans are lucky that Magic Johnson was infected with H.I.V. There is no way of calculating how many lives he has saved. No advertising agency could have invented a better, or more effective, role model. — Michael Specter

There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness. — Stendhal

It's funny that people think because you don't have a movie or record out, you disappear into a frozen chamber someplace. They think you're dead when you're not in the public eye. — Jason Schwartzman

I swear I only want to hear about you, to know what you've been doing. It's a hundred years since we've met-it may be another hundred before we meet again. — Edith Wharton