Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis Quotes & Sayings

Acting? No, it is not for me. I would be terrible. — Kim Carnes

On the way home, I saw a fist fight between an adverb and a pair of parentheses.
I kept on walking. — Peter James West

The room is a wreck. It looks like it was worked over by Linda Blair on a crack binge. — Richard Kadrey

Not all writing is political or revolutionary, but the very act of giving yourself permission to write, to speak, to share the truth no matter whether the truth you understand is the truth others want to acknowledge, is brave, powerful, and important. — Dinty W. Moore

Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets. — Anthony Burgess

The principles he stood for and the way in which he asserted them were always easier to admire than to follow. — Shashi Tharoor

There are worse things in life to be than fat, and one of them is ignorant. Another is prejudiced. Another is deliberately cruel. — Laura Wiess

Do you want Columbus to go across the ocean, or do you want to put a message in a bottle and hope that it lands somewhere? I'd rather have actual people be there. Whether they look like Americans or like the inhabitants of some other country, depends on who has the most drive. — Kevin J. Anderson

You don't like presents or anything new, you don't even need a card. You prefer your appreciations to be something of helpfulness, for someone else's regard. — Julie Hebert

I'm not saying that George W. Bush did everything right. But even if you take a skeptical view of his Iraq war, [Barack] Obama made the more serious error of withdrawing his troops from Iraq early. — Garry Kasparov

"Why, I don't exactly know about perjury, my dear sir," replied the little gentleman. "Harsh word, my dear sir, very harsh word indeed. It's a legal fiction, my dear sir, nothing more." — Charles Dickens

Nothing is so rash as fear; its counsels very rarely put off, whilst they are always sure to aggravate the evils from which it would fly. — Edmund Burke

There are family mysteries I cannot solve. There are family mysteries I am unwilling to solve. — Sherman Alexie

I was on the abutment. — Abraham Zapruder

The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity. — Carl Jung