Irrfan Khan Quotes

I can recite poetry, but I cannot write it.

Irrfan Khan

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• I've ended up on some website list or some other list for super right-wing people. They've been tweeting some pretty rude stuff at me, so I think there's a sect of America out there that doesn't like certain opinions and can really take their claws out when they don't like what you're saying.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Up
  • America

• The future is always the same, and that is to win trophies - next season, in two and three years.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Future
  • Win
  • Season

• It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • May
  • Today
  • Tomorrow

• The wonderful thing about modern medicine is that so many of these complaints that used to signify old age and decline can be coped with.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Age
  • Medicine
  • Old Age

• Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between people.

  

  Yael Stone
  • People
  • Different
  • Together

• I'm the blackest villain of all time.

  

  Ian McDiarmid
  • Time
  • Villain
  • Blackest

• I'm Greek. My body produces feta cheese.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Body
  • Greek
  • Cheese

• By accepting what the external structures have told us we need to do, we have given the power of our realities and ourselves to others. It is time to tell a new story for women, and that can only start with women.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Time
  • Women
  • Power

• A lasting architecture has to have roots.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Architecture
  • Roots
  • Lasting

• I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Poetry

• The president is just the coach of a football team. You need the right support, the right stadium, the right players, the right staff. An excellent coach is not going to win games.

  

  Questlove
  • Team
  • Support
  • Football

• I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Doing
  • Figure
  • Documentary

• At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a punishment. They expected you to copy out, say, 20 or 30 pages from one of the school texts. But I found that rather than laboriously copying out something from a novel by Charles Dickens, it was easier if I made it up myself.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Up
  • School
  • Myself

• It's kind of selfish to say that you're only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Live
  • Fight
  • Victory

• I'm focused on getting to a place where we can prove that journalism can make good money on the web.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Good
  • Money
  • Journalism

• What drew me towards team sport were the camaraderie and friendship. The chance to celebrate victory and success with a group of other people is something I have enjoyed doing.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • People
  • Success
  • Team

• It's hard for people to realize now, but my gosh, when I was in school, you could not name a group that was less cool than Kiss. Going in to school with a Kiss T-shirt, you were asking for ridicule. In '77, they were one of the biggest bands in the world, but by '80, there was a severe backlash.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • People
  • World
  • School

• Anger begets more anger, and forgiveness and love lead to more forgiveness and love.

  

  Mahavira
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Forgiveness

• Superior and inferior wage one hundred battles a day.

  

  Han Fei
  • Day
  • Battles
  • Wage

• When I write the music for any of my songs, I write as a composer-lyricist in my head.

  

  Alan Menken
  • Write
  • Songs
  • Head

• When I came to Delhi and noticed an insider view, I felt what it was, and I was surprised to see it. It seemed as if dozens of separate governments are running at the same time in one main government. It appeared that everyone has its own fiefdom.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Time
  • Running
  • Government

• One out of every four of us will need a United Way Agency and some in the next year, ... It doesn't matter what your income, your age, or your circumstances.

  

  Jack Miller
  • Age
  • Circumstances
  • Income

• Its Christmas Eve! Its the one night of the year when we all act a little nicer, we smile a little easier, we cheer a little more. For a couple of hours out of the whole year, we are the people that we always hoped we would be.

  

  Bill Murray
  • Night
  • Cheer
  • Christmas Eve

• I can recite poetry, but I cannot write it.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Poetry
  • Write
  • I Can