Sania Mirza Quotes
Negativity sells. I have been labelled a rebel. If I had been one, would I have got married at 23? Would I have been a straight A student?
Quotes to Explore
-
Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.
-
To disregard the obvious is not a good trait in a leader in any situation.
-
One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
-
Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.
-
Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.
-
I was born in New York City. But my family moved when I was still an infant. Except for a year and half when we lived in Youngstown, Ohio, I grew up in small towns in Pennsylvania. I graduated from high school in Farrell, Pennsylvania.
-
I'm definitely a guitar player, but it's the last thing I listen to in a song, after the singer and the drums.
-
I probably follow all sports a little bit. I like hockey quite a bit. I like football. I like college basketball when it gets down to March Madness. I like baseball. I enjoy them all. I watch them all.
-
Selectors can't please everyone, but I am OK if they are working for the benefit of Indian cricket. It's an administrative decision to appoint a selection committee, and I would like to let them do their job.
-
I am happy everywhere except in places where I see glitz and rich farts. I am happiest in Brooklyn, where the concentration of rich farts is minimal.
-
In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense.
-
In entertainment, there's a theory that you should be lunching and dinnering and going to some kind of power breakfast.
-
For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.
-
I think the government should be out of the marriage business and leave marriage to the churches.
-
I am delighted to be joining 'Guardian U.S.'s team as a weekly columnist, and to have the chance to address American and global current events on its distinguished platform. 'Guardian U.S.' brings the 'Guardian's hard-hitting investigative brand to a new focus on American news and opinion.
-
If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.
-
When they talk to me, people say, 'I didn't expect you to be how you are.'
-
We must get rid of fossil fuels by developing injection systems for automobiles, which can run on bio-fuel.
-
The public has no idea that the deficit has been falling like a stone.
-
Programs like 'Jeopardy' and 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire' are ridiculous. They're the stupidest shows in history. They're making us dumber. They don't give us information, they give us facts, factoids. You don't learn who Napoleon was and how he was motivated. You learn what year he was born, and when he died. That's useless.
-
I was taught a very strong work ethic that included punctuality, which I've always felt is a sign of respect for others.
-
I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike.
-
Our teen-agers withdrew to their bedrooms on their thirteenth birthday and didn't show themselves to us again until it was time to get married.
-
Negativity sells. I have been labelled a rebel. If I had been one, would I have got married at 23? Would I have been a straight A student?
