Subcontinental Quotes & Sayings

He will find out the hard way on his birthday that he has got a present he never wanted — Graham Earl

I would like to draw your attention to the fact that in Russia, unlike in one third of the world's countries, being gay is not a crime. — Vladimir Putin

The American political system is not good at trading sacrifice now to prevent crises later. — Ezra Klein

I'd like to do a song that I wrote today about our government's increasing infringement on our right to privacy, but the lyrics mysteriously disappeared from my guitar case. — Dan Piraro

...Such a subcontinental thing to do, no? To bury what is difficult and painful in cerebral things. To let the intellect soak up the blood from a fight. This is what we do. Not because we lack sensitivity, but because we lack the right language for emotion. English has such a jealous hold over us, but it is a hard and brittle thing in our hands. It doesn't suit the easy melodrama of our natures. And it has a way of making matters of the heart seem at once inert and deeply shameful. So what do upper-class Indian men do when they are too wretched to do anything else? They talk of the Russians! Of Dostoevsky and Belinsky, of "cultural schizophrenia" and "the lackeyishness of thinking"... — Aatish Taseer

Tommy Wirkola is Norwegian but has a Finnish surname - he comes from the one of the northernmost countries in the whole of Europe. It was easy working with him. The people in the north are all fairly similar. — Pihla Viitala

Life, basically, is a nightmare until you learn to control the dream. — Rebecca Ore

I have to speak carefully now because I have this strange habit of imitating British people without even realizing that I'm doing it. — Matthew Norman

You can be miserable before you have a cookie and you can be miserable after you eat a cookie but you can't be miserable while you are eating a cookie. — Ina Garten

Certitude is seized by some minds, not because there is any philosophical justification for it, but because such minds have an emotional need for certitude. — Robert Anton Wilson

My life was a sort of series of random disasters. — Claire Tomalin

Many countries of the world, I said, had constitutions, but in almost every case they were documents in which governments told their people what they could do. The United States had a constitution, I said, that was different from all the others because in it the people tell their government what it can do. Its three most important words are "We the people," its most important principle, freedom. — Ronald Reagan

I'm not 100 percent certain, but I think my cup of coffee just said, You're my bitch. — Darynda Jones

The purpose of life is to live. The meaning of life is whatever you choose. The secret to life is balance in all things ... — James A. Murphy

She's adorable ." "How would you know?" "I'm gay, not blind. Her hair's all poofy and she's got a great nose. I mean, a great nose. And, what? What do you people like? Boobs? She seems to have boobs. They seem to be of approximately normal boob size. What else do you want? — John Green

Whenever you make a big effort and take risks, getting good results and points is very rewarding. — Dani Pedrosa