V. S. Naipaul Quotes
I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't know if it has set in or not. Honestly, it's crazy. It's such an amazing honor. I remember thinking back to being in my room waiting for the call to see if I got the part. It's like winning the lottery. I'm proud to be a member of such an amazing cast - that's the best award of all.
-
Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
-
I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for. It isn't to make money that's for sure. I've never made any.
-
But I prefer to go to comedies. Give me Julia Roberts smiling anyday.
-
It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
-
The thing that can get kind of annoying is, when you travel so much, how hectic it gets. I was being interviewed once - it was a phone interview - and they said, 'Where are you right now?' and I didn't know where I was.
-
But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
-
No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.
-
The whole fame question is one that is constantly intriguing to me. I think that fame is something that other people create about you. Whether you jump into that or not is up to you – and whether you have the talents for jumping into it or not.
-
I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
-
Every time you come out with an album or a song, you want to feel like you're growing a bit in what you are and giving people something that they can feel.
-
I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.
-
One of the few benefits of being a journalist is that you're not in the Army.
-
When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.
-
I've seen articles suggesting that Wal-Mart buys at prices lower than our competitors', and that this gives Wal-Mart an unfair advantage. I don't believe it... What we hear is concern that in some circumstances, Wal-Mart may actually be paying more than our competitors.
-
Take the time today to understand your contribution to any bad event you've just been through.
-
I had no work after 'Gangster' for two years, and my sister Rangoli met with an accident that destroyed her looks. My struggle with my parents combined with the industry not accepting me made me feel alienated.
-
I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.
-
Part of that is that New York has proved to be too much fun for me to live and work; I love New York so much.
-
I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist.
-
Without an adversary prowess shrivels. We see how great and efficient it really is only when it shows by endurance what it is capable of.
-
Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
-
My mother is a strong woman. Her strength comes from being tested by life's unpredictability. It comes from soldiering on for her children, even when she might rather have given up. I know it hasn't always come easily, but I also know it's her greatest gift.
-
I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.
