Nitesh Mishra Quotes & Sayings

I'm the proverbial kid in the candy store. I'm a guy who is lucky enough to have been chosen to turn his compulsive hobby into a profession. If I didn't have my job, I'd be doing almost the same thing for free. — Dick Latvala

He looked so lost, so soulful, so lonely. I wanted him to kiss me now. I wanted to let him know I was his for all eternity. — Ellen Schreiber

Dear child, I am about to make a long journey, so take into thy keeping the keys of the thirteen doors of heaven. Twelve of these thou mayest open, and behold the glory which is within them, but the thirteenth, to which this little key belongs, is forbidden thee. Beware of opening it, or thou wilt bring misery on thyself. — Jacob Grimm

Suggested remedy for the common cold: A good gulp of whiskey at bedtime-it's not very scientific, but it helps. — Alexander Fleming

A dancer's life is all about repetition. — Twyla Tharp

North Koreans are irrational to some extent, but I don't think they're totally irrational. I think they watch American cable channels. I think they watch the European cable channels. I think they, their decision makers keep up more than we know. And I think they want us to think they're a little crazy. — William J. Clinton

To avoid discord, never put two wise people in the same room. — Mason Cooley

Prayer is the acid test of devotion. — Samuel Chadwick

The problem is you don't understand what the problem is. — Tim Kinsella

The rebuilding of Iraq has been terrible. — Pat Robertson

Everyone ate as a group, and a huge cauldron of dumpster-dived gruel bubbled over a campfire, tended by a grubby-handed group of chefs dicing potatoes and onions on a piece of cardboard on the ground. Huck [Finn] may have been right that a 'barrel of odds and ends' where the 'juice kind of swaps around' makes for better victuals, but it occurred to me that the revolution may well get dysentery. — Matthew Power