Thirumalai Quotes & Sayings

Canada is a live country - live, but not, like the States, kicking. — Rupert Brooke

Prabhakar was waiting for me at the bus station, smiling happily through the rain. He led me through the people gathered at the bus station, past shops selling cheap household items and eating places where pakoras were being fried in bubbling oil. The brands and consumerism of urban India had disappeared, and although I felt an acute sense of displacement, I was oddly comforted by the rough utilitarianism of the place, which reminded me of the India I had grown up in.

There were no cafes where I could hide my loneliness behind a cup of coffee and an open laptop, no shopping aisles where I could wander, picking out items that momentarily created an image of a better life. There was no escape here except through human relationships, and for that I was utterly dependent on Prabhakar speeding through the rain on his motorcycle. — Siddhartha Deb

I'm not a big fan of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It's just a personal thing, not an ego thing. — Steve Perry

Ideality is the avant-courier of the mind. — Horace Mann

Anyone who has an imagination can write a book - it's cheap to do - but movies are big money. — Darren Shan

One thing I learned about Gordon Brown is you've got to have the strength to just get in there and take him on. When you first hear him spouting his statistics and boasting about his record, it can be quite intimidating. But over time, shadowing him, I just realised that a lot of it was rubbish; a lot of it was baloney. — George Osborne

My cats inspire me daily. They inspire me to get a dog! — Greg Curtis

Quotation is a noun. Quote is a verb. — Eusebius Clay

Funny thing is, there's only so much you can fill up with earthly things. There's an empty place and a void inside that only God can fill and some folks never figure that out. — Tracie Peterson

I support affirmative action. I support special measures when you need it. — Quentin Bryce

My personal peculiarities could not offend her since she was totally uninterested in my pretensions to be a person. — Iris Murdoch