Amitava Kumar Quotes

The writer will write in his or her words, but the readers, even when they are not reading you, will take it elsewhere entirely.

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• Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.

  

  Sammi Hanratty
  • Teenager
  • Go
  • Through

• When the British became Christian, Christianity in no way altered their political organisation.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Political
  • Way
  • Christian

• I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them.

  

  Mae West
  • Man
  • Better
  • See

• I'm not afraid of portraying anything on-screen.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Afraid
  • Anything
  • On-screen

• My favorite actor who played villains - who could play anything, really - was Jimmy Cagney.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Play
  • Actor
  • Favorite

• It's such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that really, for new ways of translating the beauty of it.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Beauty

• Comics are too big. You can't say any kind or genre of comics is better than another. You can say so subjectively. But to say it like it's objective is wrong. It's wrong morally, because it cuts out stuff that's good.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Good
  • You
  • Better

• It's always been a dream of mine, of exploring the living world, of classifying all the species and finding out what makes up the biosphere.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Up
  • World
  • Dream

• I have only one counsel for you - be master.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • You
  • Master
  • Counsel

• If you like to bake with eggs, you can substitute Ener-G egg replacer, bananas, tofu, or many other ingredients. You get the hang of it quickly enough.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • You
  • Eggs
  • Egg

• Remember, social progress only happens when those in society's privileged classes choose to give up their status.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Society

• Die Botschaft hör ich wohl, allein, mir fehlt der Glaube

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Die

• It doesn't mean much;It doesn't mean anything at all.The life I've left behind meIs a cold room.I've crossed the last lineFrom where I can't return.Where every step I took in faithBetrayed meAnd led me from my home.And sweet sweet surrenderIs all that I have to give.

  

  Sarah McLachlan
  • Life
  • Home
  • Cold

• Be a clown, be a clown, All the world loves a clown. Act the fool, play the calf, And you'll always have the last laugh.

  

  Cole Porter
  • World
  • Fool

• I've never been socially outgoing, but I suspect I've gotten more and more ambivalent about making new friends. I'm irritated by how-do-you-do chit-chat, but that's how new relationships usually begin.

  

  Ariel Gore
  • Friends

• I'd be quite excited to play somebody British.

  

  Claire Forlani

• I have been a Republican since I came to this country, fleeing communism when I was eight years old and Ronald Reagan was president.

  

  Ana Navarro
  • Country

• Just making a good movie is hard to do.

  

  Keenen Ivory Wayans
  • Good
  • Movie

• 'The Panorama' is also the last place anywhere in New York where the World Trade Center still stands, whole, as it stood in the early morning of September 11. I can also see the corner where I saw the first tower fall and howled out loud. Seeing the buildings again here is uplifting, healing.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • World
  • Fall
  • Morning

• A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of it is that you're not supposed to always know. It's subterranean.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Rock
  • Supposed
  • Mainstream

• Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Great
  • Movie
  • Words

• There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Easy
  • Mountain
  • Genius

• Our parents were musicians.

  

  Caroline Corr
  • Parents

• The writer will write in his or her words, but the readers, even when they are not reading you, will take it elsewhere entirely.

  

  Amitava Kumar
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