Thayil Jeet Quotes & Sayings

CNN can still afford 36 bureaus around the world. — Jim Walton

I was a hardworking junkie. Heroin doesn't affect your brain. It doesn't touch your thinking. It's purely physical. — Jeet Thayil

4 years earlier "This is truth: when you sacrifice your life, you must make fullest use of your weaponry. It is false not to do so, and to die with a weapon yet undrawn." Miyamoto Musashi, A Book of Five Rings. — Phillip W. Simpson

There's nothing I'm embarrassed about. — Brian May

Women are more evolved biologically and emotionally, that's well known
and it's obvious. But they confuse sex and the spirit; they don't
separate. Men, as you know, always separate: they separate
their human and dog natures. — Jeet Thayil

Drugs are a bad habit, so why do it? Because, said Dimple, it isn't the heroin that we're addicted to, it's the drama of the life, the chaos of it, that's the real addiction and we never get over it; and because when you come down to it, the high life, that is, the intoxicated life, is the best of the limited options offered. — Jeet Thayil

I found Bombay and opium, the drug and the city, the city of opium and the drug Bombay — Jeet Thayil

She looked like a woman talking about astronomical parallax, and that made her brilliantly beautiful. — Courtney Milan

You've got to face facts and the fact is life is a joke, a fucking bad joke, or, no, a bad fucking joke. There's no point taking it seriously because whatever happens, and I mean whatever the fuck, the punch line is the same: you go out horizontally. You see the point? No fucking point. — Jeet Thayil

No matter how much a young man likes to think for himself, he is always trying to model himself on some abstract pattern largely derived from the example of the world around him. And a man, no matter how conservative, shows his own worth by his personal deviation from that pattern. — Cesare Pavese

They [the Soviets] intend ... to induce the Americans to adopt their own 'restructuring' and convergence of the Soviet and American systems using to this end the fear of nuclear conflict ... Convergence will be accompanied by blood baths and political re-education camps in Western Europe and the United States. The Soviet strategists are counting on an economic depression in the United States and intend to introduce their reformed model of socialism with a human face as an alternative to the American system during the depression. — Anatoliy Golitsyn

As we say in Portugal, they brought the bus and they left the bus in front of the goal. — Jose Mourinho

We would like to ease the life of the Palestinians. I prepared a new plan that we call a positive agenda. — Silvan Shalom

Yeah. You were too little I guess. Hondo was a good horse. Grandpa loved him as much as you love Sackett. — Amy Harmon

Our life call is something God placed in our hearts long before we were born. We sense it, but often do not discern it, and if we do, many times we run from it. I know I did. Then God called my name and told me my destiny. There is nothing sweeter than hearing your name spoken by God. When He reveals to you who you are and what He has created you to be, a sense of security will come over you, and you will never want to be someone else. You will realize you are uniquely made, and you will never look at another person and desire to walk in that person's anointing and call. — Jeremy Mangerchine

He read because it gave him instant gratification in a way nothing else did,and as was the case with all addicts,gratification was the important thing. — Jeet Thayil

When we love, it is not necessary to understand what is happening outside, because everything happens inside us instead. — Paulo Coelho

He talks in proverbs. There's nothing I can say in reply. — Jeet Thayil

Isn't it incredible?, I said.
There was nothing incredible about it, she said.
I thought it was so because I spoke English, because I read books, and because my parents paid for my education and my upkeep. For me everything was surprising, the world was full of wonder, the most random idiotic occurrence was incredible because my luck made it so. For people like her, for the poor, the only incredible thing in the whole world was money and the mysterious ways in which it worked. — Jeet Thayil

How will the ships navigate
without stars? And then he remembered that the stars were
dead, long dead, and the light they shed was not to be trusted,
was false, if not an outright lie, and in any case was inadequate,
unequal to its task, which was to illuminate the evil that men did. — Jeet Thayil

It's like the prime directive on Star Trek. You have to let the planet evolve at its own pace. You can't introduce hyperspace or warp speed until they discover it for themselves. — Kami Garcia

Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives. — Vincent Canby

All I did was write it down, one word after the other, beginning and ending with the same one, Bombay. — Jeet Thayil

Like most men, Jimmy Jim was neither all good nor all bad. It is just that when he was bad, gentler people saw in him a disturbing fury. People, a lot them, don't understand fury. They understand anger and even hatred, but fury is one of those old words that have gone out of style. Jimmy Jim Bundrum understood it. It rode his shoulder like a parrot. — Rick Bragg

The process of which I am speaking is nothing less than a conservative revolution on such a scale as the history of Europe has never known. Its object is form, a new German reality, in which the whole nation will share. — Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

Then there are the addicts, the hunger addicts, the rage addicts, the poverty addicts , and power addicts, and the pure addicts who are addicted not to substances but to the oblivion and the tenderness the substances engender. An addict, if you don't mind me saying so, is like a saint. What is a saint but someone who has cut himself off, voluntarily, from the world's traffic and currency. — Jeet Thayil

Because now there's time enough not to hurry, to light the lamp and open the window to the moon and take a moment to dream of a great and broken city, because when the day starts its business I'll have to stop, these are night-time tales that vanish in the sunlight like vampire dust — Jeet Thayil

My religion is no way of knowing me. — Jeet Thayil

We're waiting for a glance or a word, some acknowledgement that we are here. — Jeet Thayil

Come on, a 25-page digression on god? You can't have that kind of thing, cut it out! — Jeet Thayil

The world is on fire; time is a bomb.
Ten thousand years are not enough
When so much remains to be done — Jeet Thayil