Zarina Screwvala Quotes & Sayings

It is seldom in life that one knows that a coming event is to be of crucial importance. — Anya Seton

I really wanted to be a musician, but it turned out I had no sense of time. — Tom Perrotta

Our fight against racism should not be a matter of black and white, but good and evil. — Kathy McClary

To regard the fundamental as the essence, to regard things as coarse, to regard accumulation as deficiency, and to dwell quietly alone with the spiritual and the intelligent - herein lie the techniques of Tao of the ancients. — Zhuangzi

Everybody thinks I'm this delicate little girl. But you can't tell a book by it's cover.' To which she added a momentary smile. — Haruki Murakami

The Mute Master had told her that people dealt with their pain in different ways - that some chose to drown it, some chose to love it, and some chose to let it turn into rage. — Sarah J. Maas

She can stop traffic with a smile. I can stop traffic, too. I just tend to do it by crashing my car into something. — Seanan McGuire

The logic of freedom of religion implies freedom to be an atheist, even though, from a historical perspective, this has not been accepted in the Muslim world. — Tariq Ramadan

Angus thought about this. She was right. That was why our national conversation was so bad. Courtesy had been abandoned in favour of the put-down, the attack, the calculated sound bite. What sort of national conversation was that? The answer came to him immediately: none. — Alexander McCall Smith

You can never entirely rest comfortably with Michael Black or Michael Paynes. — Joshua Malina

Now anyone can move anywhere. I've made deep connections with people around the world since I tour everywhere that I will simply never see again. — Ian MacKaye

And now here he was in my kitchen. Smelling like apple pies and looking at me with a direct seriousness that made him even cuter. The bruising spreading up the side of his face had halted, and under it he was very pretty. Not jock-pretty, or the hurtful kind of pretty that tells you a guy is too busy taking care of his royal self to think about you. — Lilith Saintcrow

My head's not in the clouds, but I think I've gotten too much credit for being an astute businessman. — Steven Spielberg

Sydney's the kind of port that leaves a mark on a sailor," the old man mused.
"Really?" Haakon said, wondering what the man meant.
"It did on me," he said, opening up his shirt to display his chest. It was covered with tattoos! At the top, SYDNEY was printed in elaborate red and blue letters. Beneath that was an enticing selection of names and dates.
"Mary, 1838 ... Adella, 1840 ... " The old sailor began laughing. "Beatrice, 1843 ... Helen, 1846." And then finally, "Mother." There was no date after "Mother."
"Mothers you love forever," he said. Everybody laughed then, including Haakon, though the thought brought some sadness to his heart. He did love his mother forever, and he missed her as well. — Bonnie Bryant Hiller

Throughout the world Dark Ages have scrawled finis to successions of cultures receding far into the past. — Jane Jacobs