Shahjahanpur Quotes & Sayings

If die I must, let me die drinking in an Inn. — Walter Map

It's the classic story form. All staying equal, or proving equal, or being equal, this will all continue, and the next time around, we'll move on to see what happened to Harry after he dove in the river, or who his friend John really was, and so on. — Robert Creeley

Atheism is a religion the way abstinence is a sex position. — Bill Maher

In Shahjahanpur, there was not much of a political fight. It was my family constituency and I knew all the voters and their problems and needs. — Jitin Prasada

Not only do I recommend [Wendell] Berry to anyone who will talk to me for more than seven seconds, but I buy his books in quantity and send them to people. I bought a few dozen of his newest, "Our Only World." — Nick Offerman

Mankind invented a system to cope with the fact that we are so intrinsically lousy at manipulating numbers. It's called the graph. — Charlie Munger

The Rock has just one thing to say to you: poontang your ass on out of here! — Dwayne Johnson

There is an uninformed myth circulating just now that makes dubstep way too important in the musical universe - don't believe the hype. — Kode9

So, now, with me. That brute which knows no peace came ever nearer me and, step by step, drove me back down to where the sun is mute. — Dante Alighieri

While no one wishes to incur losses, you couldn't prove it from an examination of the behavior of most investors and speculators. The speculative urge that lies within most of us is strong; the prospect of a free lunch can be compelling, especially when others have already seemingly partaken. It can be hard to concentrate on potential losses while others are greedily reaching for gains and your broker is on the phone offering shares in the latest "hot" initial public offering. Yet the avoidance of loss is the surest way to ensure a profitable outcome. — Seth Klarman

I usually destroy unreleased material. It has a way of coming back to haunt you. — John Fogerty

The private detective of fiction is a fantastic creation who acts and speaks like a real man. He can be completely realistic in every sense but one, that one sense being that in life as we know it such a man would not be a private detective.
(Letter, April 19, 1951) — Raymond Chandler

Civilized society is a hopeful belief and protest that science, money and goods make man count for more than any other animal. In this sense everything that man does is religious and heroic, and yet in danger of being fictitious and fallible, — Ernest Becker

I don't really like watching my stuff. It makes me feel sick. You imagine you look a certain way in your head, and when it looks even the slightest bit different from what you imagine, you go, 'Rubbish!' — Robert Pattinson

When you conquer fear, you unleash a greater power from within you. — Stephan Labossiere

When you are an Anvill, hold you still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill. — George Herbert