Mohsin Hamid Quotes

The ruins proclaim the building was beautiful.

Mohsin Hamid

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• It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • People
  • Important
  • Money

• I interviewed Johnny Knoxville once. I was kind of scared to interview him because I thought he might be a real jerk, but he was really nice, and I ripped his chest hair out.

  

  Rachel Perry
  • Real
  • Nice
  • Kind

• You should never ask, 'What would the readers like now?' Instead, you should ask, 'What would I like if I was a reader?' And then you must trust your own mind.

  

  Hakan Nesser
  • Mind
  • Trust
  • Never

• I learned my French through school. I was lucky in that the tutor on 'The Wonder Years' set spoke fluent French.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • School
  • Wonder
  • Lucky

• To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Remember
  • Death
  • Me

• I'm a big Stephen King fan.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • King
  • Big
  • Stephen King

• I always put myself second - I like to make others happy.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Happy
  • Myself
  • Like

• I cannot compromise or inhibit my independence.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Independence
  • Compromise

• I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • Up
  • Family
  • Sick

• You may have heard that back in the States there are some people who are smoking grass. I don't know how you feel, but it's sure easier than cutting the stuff.

  

  Pat Morita
  • People
  • May
  • Know

• Trying to rebuild Afghanistan on the cheap has left the country in the hands of warlords and an impotent Northern Alliance puppet regime that runs Kabul and nothing else.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Country
  • Trying
  • Hands

• I don't have goals when writing books, apart from getting to the end. I have rather vague ideas about how I want things to feel, I'm big on ambience. I have a title, a beginning and a probable ending and go from there.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Writing
  • Beginning
  • End

• I've always been kind of a mutt creatively. I started off in journalism, and I've actually done more police and procedural shows than I've ever done science fiction shows. I was on 'Murder She Wrote,' I was on 'Walker, Texas Ranger,' I was on 'Jake and the Fat Man.'

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Done
  • She
  • Man

• It is my duty, gentlemen, to inform you that women are dictatorsall, and I recommend to you this moral:In real life it takes only one to make a quarrel.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Life
  • Women
  • Real

• My husband always smells good to me.

  

  Jessica Capshaw
  • Good
  • Husband

• This idea of the digital native in the bedroom taking down a fascist regime and building a billion-dollar company is a very attractive image, but actually, if you look at the research, young people are on the lowest rung of digital opportunity.

  

  Beeban Kidron
  • People
  • Opportunity

• I think comic books have come an incredibly far way, and I want to make sure we don't take a step back. I certainly don't want my name on a movie that would take it back.

  

  Marc Guggenheim
  • Movie

• Once you have extrapolated the effects a particular science will have on society - cheap clean energy, rejuvenation - the political impact is quite easy to predict. The two are twinned.

  

  Peter F. Hamilton
  • Society
  • Science
  • Political

• The big percentage is us, the real people, and we have to say something. You have to speak up. You have to.

  

  Leslie Jones
  • People
  • Up
  • Real

• Cacie Dalager's voice is beautiful, and her lyrics break my heart.

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • Heart
  • Beautiful
  • Lyrics

• I love bats! Women are scared of them. They think bats can get caught in their hair, don't they? But bats are the most beautiful of animals, extraordinarily delicate. Have you observed their brilliant little eyes, gleaming with intelligence, and their skin, silky as velvet? And look at all these delicate little bones.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Women
  • Beautiful
  • Eyes

• I wrote a great deal of a novel, 'Winter's Tale,' on the roof of a Brooklyn Heights tenement on Henry Street. I was a technical climber, and now and then I would put down my manuscript and get up to walk along parapets and climb walls and chimneys.

  

  Mark Helprin
  • Up
  • Great
  • Winter

• The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.

  

  Francoise Sagan
  • Time
  • Regret

• The ruins proclaim the building was beautiful.

  

  Mohsin Hamid
  • Beautiful
  • Building
  • Fundamentalist