Bapsi Sidhwa Quotes

They gleam, reflecting rainbow hues—insinuating questions ... What is eternity? Why are the stars? Where do cats lay their eggs? And why don’t hospitals have flushing bedpans built into the beds?

Bapsi Sidhwa

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• Playing a character for four years, in people's minds, that's who you are.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • People
  • Character
  • Years

• I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Myself

• Yesterday ended last night. Today is a brand-new day.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Today
  • Night
  • Day

• Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Space
  • Mission
  • Robot

• I'm terrible remembering lyrics. Before a tour, I have to remind myself. I have to go through the songs.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
  • Myself
  • Lyrics
  • Go

• I don't think I'm unlike a lot of people. I am just someone who is trying to find that mate, and I think it's a really hard thing to do.

  

  Halle Berry
  • People
  • Trying
  • Mate

• I was quietly rebellious. My parents thought I was very good but secretly I did things like saying I was staying in one place and going somewhere else instead. My older sister was openly rebellious and would tell my parents where to go, but I never did that.

  

  Frances O'Connor
  • Good
  • Parents
  • Sister

• I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Father
  • Parents
  • Change

• The uncommon man has done the impossible and there has been that much more light in the world because of it. Children respond to heroes by thinking creatively and sometimes in breaking beyond the bounds of the impossible in their turn, and so becoming heroes themselves.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Children

• Applause is a receipt, not a note of demand.

  

  Artur Schnabel

• You have to face fears head on.

  

  Kriti Sanon

• I was lucky to get the kinds of parts I wanted. I always said I didn't want to do anything my kids can't see.

  

  Dick Van Dyke
  • Kids

• The way to do it is to put as much life into the song as I can. You can either get it to breathe or you can't.

  

  Levon Helm
  • Life
  • Song
  • Breathe

• The funny thing is, all my friends are short. I wasn't aware of tall people till I got to high school. I didn't know they existed. I was sheltered.

  

  Kevin Hart
  • People
  • School
  • Friends

• In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better.

  

  Doris Lessing
  • Writing

• As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

  

  Diogenes
  • Good
  • Friends

• I've lost bags all over the world and had cases end up in London, Frankfurt, Los Angeles and Miami.

  

  Brigitte Nielsen
  • Up
  • World
  • Lost

• Without language we would have no reason, without reason no religion, and without these three essential aspects of our nature, neither mind nor bond of society.

  

  Johann Georg Hamann
  • Mind
  • Nature
  • Society

• You know, maybe I was just born in the wrong time, but I love all things romantic. Puffy understands that. For my last birthday, he covered my hotel room floor with rose petals and had flowers and candles all over the room.

  

  Jennifer Lopez
  • Time
  • Romantic
  • Rose

• People are clocks who think they wind themselves.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • People
  • Think
  • Wind

• I'm a great thief. I like to lift stuff and play it better. The real trick is taking whatever you've stolen and trying to do something different with it.

  

  Carl Palmer Emerson, Lake & Palmer
  • Stuff
  • Trick
  • Thief

• I argue, based on metaphysical and physical considerations, that we should think of the fundamental parts of the world as a mix of intrinsic natures, rather like a paint-pot filled with a rainbow of colors, loosely mixed to give a richly varied, spatiotemporally inseparable, spread of qualities, and that this mixture is what gives rise to ordinary reality.

  

  L.A. Paul
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Reality

• They gleam, reflecting rainbow hues—insinuating questions ... What is eternity? Why are the stars? Where do cats lay their eggs? And why don’t hospitals have flushing bedpans built into the beds?

  

  Bapsi Sidhwa
  • Rainbow
  • Reflecting
  • Gleam