Umrao Jaan Ada Quotes & Sayings

Architecture is what nature cannot make.
Architecture is something unnatural but not something made up. — Louis Kahn

When she smoothed my shirt and stepped back, I said, 'Mama, why do you always look at me like I'm dressed in a fancy suit?' She said, 'Because I see your soul, Leland Keller. Your soul is as a spick- and- span and sharp as a man in his church suit. That's what's important in life. Make sure your soul is dressed right, always in its church clothes. That's the only thing that matters to God' ... — Joey W. Hill

He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves. — Lord Chesterfield

It has now become a very common sentiment, that there is some deep and radical wrong somewhere, and that legislators have proved themselves incapable of discovering, or, of remedying it. — Josiah Warren

I encourage people to get a village so that there will always be someone who's like family looking out for your child. — Kym Whitley

If you say you are truly in love with me, you must see the light in my darkness, embrace my iniquity, and follow me to hell. — Michael Bassey Johnson

The principles are exactly the same as those of QED: everything is built out of propagators, vertex diagrams, and coupling constants. But there are new actors and whole new plot lines, including one called QCD. — Leonard Susskind

What you stand for is more important than what you stand in. — Kenneth Cole

When all economists are equally open-minded and are willing to incorporate important variables in their work, even if the rational model says those variables are supposedly irrelevant, the field of behavioral economics will disappear. All economics will be as behavioral as it needs to be. And those who have been stubbornly clinging to an imaginary world that consists only of Econs will be waving a white flag, rather than an invisible hand. — Richard H. Thaler

'War and Peace' goes down a lot smoother than a Dan Brown novel, let me tell you. — Dave Morris

Veteran performers are dying off, and new acts simply aren't emerging on the national scene. — Brian Setzer