Rohinton Irani Quotes & Sayings

Andy Hertzfeld, an original member of the Apple team and now an engineer at Google, once said that what Jobs taught him was to "follow your heart" and only great work comes out of doing what you adore. — Carmine Gallo

The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable. — Oliver Goldsmith

Imagine that. You just can't let your entire life go by worrying about your damned thighs. You'd never find happiness. — Sarah Gilbert

By Aladdin's lamplit scrotum, man! Everything is a story. What is there but stories? Stories are the only truth. — Christopher Moore

We magistrates find that reason is the easiest thing in the world to dispense with; banished from our law courts as it is from our heads, we delight in trampling it underfoot, and that is what makes our judicial sentences such masterpieces, since (although commonsense never presides in them) those sentences are carried out with as much firmness as if people knew what they actually meant. — Marquis De Sade

Regret is poison that kills the soul. — Karen Marie Moning

I get a little scared sometimes. A lot of things scare me. — Liam Hemsworth

It can therefore be said that, from the viewpoint of the doctrine of the faith, there are no difficulites in explaining the origin of man, in regard to the body, by means of the theory of evolution. — Pope John Paul II

He liked radical politics and had a fondness for chocolate. — Laura Kinsale

Being referred to as a hunk or a heartthrob makes me nervous, but it's flattering. But I'm more interested in being an actor than a heartthrob. — Orlando Bloom

Out of evil, much good has come to me. By keeping quiet, repressing nothing, remaining attentive, and by accepting reality - taking things as they are, and not as I wanted them to be - by doing all this, unusual knowledge has come to me, and unusual powers as well, such as I could never have imagined before.
I always thought that when we accepted things they overpowered us in some way or other. This turns out not to be true at all, and it is only by accepting them that one can assume and attitude towards them.
So now I intend to play the game of life, being receptive to whatever comes to me, good and bad, sun and shadow forever alternating, and, in this way, also accepting my own nature with its positive and negative sides. Thus everything becomes more alive to me.
What a fool I was! How I tried to force everything to go according to way I thought it ought to.
an ex patient of C. G. Jung (Alchemical Studies, pg 47) — C. G. Jung

The thing that is changing...
Is it my surroundings, or myself? — Mika Yamamori

I'm real comfortable around people, and it took a long time for me to evolve to that point. — Ron Perlman

We read many books, because we cannot know enough people. — T. S. Eliot