Madhuri Dixit Quotes

I was quite the media darling.

Madhuri Dixit

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Good
  • Player
  • Tennis

• To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity.

  

  Basil Bunting
  • Present
  • Appreciate
  • Them

• Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Communication

• I don't know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Know
  • Politics
  • Wants

• I spent a lot of time at my grandparents in the school holidays, and the only books in the house were a copy of the Bible and Agatha Christie's 'Murder at the Vicarage.' I developed a taste for murder mysteries and then later discovered libraries, second-hand bookshops, and jumble sales.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Time
  • School
  • House

• I hate when a movie just sort of ends and is so open-ended you feel like it wasn't finished. I appreciate leaving things up to the interpretation of the audience and letting them make decisions about where things will go in the future - but the director has to make a decision; otherwise it is sort of a cop-out.

  

  Zach Gilford
  • Up
  • Movie
  • Future

• My sleep is very important, and I have to have at least eight hours every night in order to function properly the next day. Unfortunately, flying through several time zones makes me disorientated, and it takes several days to readjust.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Time
  • Important
  • Night

• The habit of collecting, of attachment to things, is an essential human trait. But Western civilization put collecting on a pedestal by inventing museums. Museums are about representing power. It could be the king's power or, later, people's power.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • People
  • Power
  • King

• President Obama has a good sense not just of the economic requisites for financial crisis firefighting but also how you build political support for moving forward on reforming the financial system, making sure that the banks are carrying enough capital.

  

  Lael Brainard
  • Good
  • Political
  • Support

• I've always loved the word blunderbuss. I've always thought that it was a beautiful word and that it could mean several different things.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Different
  • Beautiful
  • Thought

• We twentieth-century Mexicans, even those of pure Indian descent, look on the pre-Columbian world as a world on the other side, not only distant in time but across the cultural divide.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Time
  • World
  • Look

• I've taken a lot of time to build up the name Flavor Flav, but this could come tumbling down in 30 seconds. If you want to keep what you worked for hard all your life, then you got to do the right thing in your life.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me - has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• Death's the discarder.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Death

• Devious, underachieving, school-hating, irreverent, and clever.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • School
  • Clever

• If liberals were prevented from ever again calling Republicans dumb, they would be robbed of half their arguments. To be sure, they would still have 'racist,' 'fascist,' 'homophobe,' 'ugly,' and a few other highly nuanced arguments in the quiver. But the loss of 'dumb' would nearly cripple them.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Ugly
  • Dumb

• I find inspiration by feeling like I haven't done or achieved anything. I push all songs I've written to the furthest part of my mind so I am not thinking of what I've done. I continue to think on what I need to do.

  

  Jason Boyd
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Feeling

• I don't think of myself as an explorer but as an athlete.

  

  Ben Saunders
  • Athlete

• I've never had WiFi at home. I'm too easily distracted, and YouTube is too tempting.

  

  Dave Eggers
  • Home

• Art is not a Trojan horse.

  

  Elfriede Jelinek
  • Art
  • Horse

• My parents did an excellent job of bringing me up with values.

  

  Bruce Smith
  • Up
  • Job
  • Parents

• The inspiration really comes first from the character and the story. That vision of what the story is, and what the character is, the world that they inhabit and what the story wants to tell. That's really what inspires me.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • World
  • Character
  • Vision

• I think in a lot of romantic comedies it ends with a kiss, and I feel like in modern day relationships, and maybe just my own experience, it starts with a kiss and then all sort of falls apart and then comes together. You're texting. You're wondering what's going on. There's no definitions, there's no labels.

  

  Elizabeth Meriwether
  • Experience
  • Together
  • Romantic

• I was quite the media darling.

  

  Madhuri Dixit