Nayantara Sahgal Quotes

Passion of any sort is seldom governed by the rules of etiquette.

Nayantara Sahgal

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• Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.

  

  T. E. Hulme
  • World
  • Blue
  • Born

• For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Black
  • Feel
  • Humor

• The first time I heard Adam Feeney and Chester Stone Hansen's 'Vibez,' it was used in Drake's '0-100' as a sample.

  

  Yuna
  • Time
  • Stone
  • First Time

• Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Peace
  • Never
  • Quiet

• The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

  

  Karl Marx
  • People
  • Results
  • Useless

• I have a lot of men who will say to me, 'I don't read books by women, but I like you.'

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Men
  • Women
  • Like

• So I'm in that half-hour business where the most money is, so that eventually I feel like the people that put on the Dupont show, like maybe my artistic effort is going to be a little different.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • People
  • Different
  • Money

• Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Democracy
  • Criticism
  • Cheers

• If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people.

  

  Karel Capek
  • People
  • Find
  • Dogs

• It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Religion

• The thing about Memphis is that it's pleasingly off-kilter. It's a great big whack job of a city. The anti-Atlanta. You go there, and you can't believe the things people will say, the way they think, the wobbling orbits of their lives. There's an essential otherness.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • People
  • Great
  • Believe

• Be true to yourself, and, um, don't worry about some large companies' quarterly profit index.

  

  Natalie Merchant
  • True
  • Worry
  • Yourself

• For relatively modest amounts of sulfur dioxide injected into the atmosphere, you could easily cool Earth by 1% or more, if you want.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Want
  • Earth
  • Cool

• I went to a lot of theatre. My parents were very involved with the performing arts. I went to nightclub shows when I was a little girl. We went to Florida and we would go to the Cocoanut Grove down there. We'd go see Lena Horne, Jimmy Durante, Sophie Tucker and Judy Garland.

  

  Lainie Kazan
  • Parents
  • Girl
  • Theatre

• I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the states where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Believe
  • Purpose
  • Slavery

• Who owns the whole rainy, stony earth? Death.Who owns all of space? Death.

  

  Ted Hughes
  • Death
  • Earth
  • Space

• Who's gonna love you when it all falls down?Who's gonna love you when your bankroll runs out?Who's gonna care when the novelty's over?When the star of the show isn't you anymore.Nobody cares when the tears of a clown fall down(I guess your mama never told you what goes around comes back around).

  

  Mariah Carey
  • Fall
  • Star
  • Tears

• I'm an egotistical bastard, and I name all my projects after myself. First Linux, now git.

  

  Linus Torvalds

• I never play a villain that I don't have something I can either do or say so the audience sees there is something redeemable about them. In other words, I don't want to do evil for evil's sake. I don't want to do Jason slasher movies. There's no point in that.

  

  Brion James
  • Words
  • Evil

• If you do not know how to be happy now… you will never ever be happy even with all the goals you achieve.

  

  Adam Khoo
  • Happy
  • Goals
  • Achieve

• I say getting a lecturing from Oprah is probably the most terrifying lecture you could possibly get.

  

  Jane Velez-Mitchell

• There is indeed good and there is indeed evil, and both walk the earth. But good has little to do with the forms of religion, and evil has as little to do with so much behavior condemned by religion. Both good and evil vie for the passions of the heart. For love!

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Earth

• Passion of any sort is seldom governed by the rules of etiquette.

  

  Nayantara Sahgal
  • Passion
  • Rules
  • Etiquette