Amitav Ghosh Quotes

I know nothing of this silence except that it lies outside the reach of my intelligence, beyond words - that is why this silence must win, must inevitably defeat me, because it is not a presence at all.

Amitav Ghosh

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• When you grow up without it, you want to have it. It's funny, in America some people say, 'Why do you want to make money so much?' And I say, 'Well, I guess you didn't starve as a kid.'

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• I would see anything by Antony Gormley.

  

  Kate Fleetwood
  • See
  • Anything
  • Would

• I always enjoyed acting. My aunt was actually an actress.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Always
  • Acting
  • Aunt

• The fact that two-thirds of Americans who work at small businesses will see premium increases because of the health law is devastating news. This is one more in a long line of broken promises from President Obama and Washington Democrats.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Work
  • Long
  • Small

• I'm showing the younger generation your career doesn't have to be over when you're 16-years-old.

  

  Nastia Liukin
  • Career
  • You
  • Generation

• When you go into a game on offense, you make a couple moves and see what the defender is going to do. Then you pretty much can figure out what he is going to do against you - whether he carries his hands low or high, whether he is bumping or pushing, those type of things.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • High
  • Game
  • Pretty

• I didn't and don't go to Internet for any business purposes. The book sales for me by this point are way beyond any influence I might have, positively, or others might have, negatively.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Business
  • Book
  • Influence

• A lizard is a perfect pet for a model. They only need feeding once a fortnight. And I'm always travelling, so it's perfect. If I had a dog, it would drop dead of starvation.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • Perfect
  • Model
  • Dog

• I like someone who's not afraid to be a kid!

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Like
  • Afraid
  • Someone

• I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • School
  • Science
  • Education

• These people are fascinated by me, but I haven't done anything.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • People
  • Done
  • Me

• If I see a movie on TV that I'm in, I usually will watch it for that reason: It's like I'm watching another person.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Movie
  • Reason
  • Person

• Starting on February 1, 2010, and running through until May 30, I will be Toronto Public Library's Writer in Residence, working out of the Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Speculation at the Lillian H. Smith branch at College and Spadina.

  

  Karl Schroeder
  • May
  • Science
  • Running

• I am not responsible for the actions of Saakashvili and even for those of Gamsakhurdia.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • Actions
  • Responsible
  • Saakashvili

• I visited England immediately after I finished writing 'The Marrying Season,' before any editing or revisions.

  

  Candace Camp
  • Writing
  • Season
  • Editing

• He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.

  

  Tacitus
  • May
  • Day
  • Fight

• I use an electric wheelchair because I have no sense of balance, and muscle spasticity has arched my spine like a cat's, while my legs are really just for show.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Like
  • Balance
  • Cat

• I had no clue about taxes at all. I didn't know they hit your paycheck. There's something that you've always got to put money away for. I didn't know you've got to put money away for it, even though it's coming out your own money. It's like, 'What the heck?'

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Money
  • You
  • Know

• I have, like, two and a half years of failed jokes that I know I wouldn't repeat, but I certainly have no comprehension of what definitely works. And the only gauge that I can go by is, 'This makes me laugh,' and is joyful... I like to, if possible, do things that people can enjoy and it doesn't take anybody down.

  

  Taran Killam
  • People
  • Enjoy
  • Laugh

• I have 800 books of just Samuel Beckett's work, tons of his correspondence, personal letters that he wrote. I have copies of plays he used when he directed, so all of his handwritten notes are in the corners of the page.

  

  John Larroquette
  • Work

• If you have a chance to win the game, you're going to try to go for the game.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Game
  • Chance
  • Win

• I run a solid 4-6 miles at a time, and over the last year two years I've gotten really into SoulCycle. It's sort of an evolved form of spinning.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Time
  • Year
  • Run

• I know nothing of this silence except that it lies outside the reach of my intelligence, beyond words - that is why this silence must win, must inevitably defeat me, because it is not a presence at all.

  

  Amitav Ghosh
  • Silence
  • Win
  • Intelligence