Gauri Khan Quotes

Time for creative ideation and quiet reflection is as much a luxury as is the physical beauty of the space you live in.

Gauri Khan

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• I don't have a wallet. I carry my driver's license and a couple of credit cards in my phone. That, and a money clip.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Money
  • Couple
  • Credit

• I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Think
  • Won
  • Tournament

• Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • War
  • Amazing
  • Universe

• You need tremendous spirituality to stop yourself falling into the abyss.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Stop
  • Yourself
  • Need

• You know what, I'm a big coward and I'm really afraid of live audiences.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Live
  • Know
  • Afraid

• I can make them voting machines sing Home Sweet Home.

  

  Earl Long
  • Home
  • Sweet
  • Voting

• I was kind of bored playing drums in a band. Which was depressing, because playing in the band was kind of a golden ticket.

  

  J. Tillman
  • Kind
  • Band
  • Bored

• I had done chorus before in school, but I was only trying for an easy A. I was a bass going 'dum dum da doo wop.'

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Trying
  • School
  • Done

• It's a huge step up from the European Indoors to then being a gold medallist at the World Championships.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Up
  • World
  • Gold

• I've got about 5 million followers on Twitter, and if I tweet anything, there will be faux outrage.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Will
  • Twitter
  • Million

• As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great admirals, but which were all too much loaded with finery and ornaments, to make on me at least, the intended impression.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • Me
  • Impression
  • Ornaments

• The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep down within you where you already know all the things, all those spiritual truths that you read or hear, and then recognize them. I say 'recognize' because you're not... it's not new.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Life
  • Real
  • Spiritual

• A period of time is as much an organising principle for a work of fiction as a sense of place. You can do geography, as Faulkner did, or you can dwell on a particular period. It provides the same framework.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Time
  • Work
  • Period

• I also found that for myself, since I've had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Life
  • Different
  • Earth

• It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.

  

  Aeschylus
  • Believe

• It is sometimes maintained that racial mixture is biologically undesirable. There is no evidence whatever for this view. Nor is there, apparently, any reason to think that Negroes are congenitally less intelligent than white people, but as to that it will be difficult to judge until they have equal scope and equally good social conditions.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • People
  • Good
  • Judge

• We will not stop fighting until every single black life is provided the type of love and support we so desperately deserve.

  

  Patrisse Cullors
  • Life
  • Black
  • Support

• Music is always going to be only as sophisticated as the culture that consumes it.

  

  Jimmy Chamberlin The Smashing Pumpkins
  • Music
  • Culture

• I've always wanted to do a video of me following a girl down the street. Michael Jackson's done it. Omarion's done it. All these male pop artists have followed women down streets in videos - it's kind of the classic thing. And I was like, there is no video of a girl following a girl down the street. I need to do this at some point in my life.

  

  Hayley Kiyoko
  • Life
  • Women
  • Done

• There is a potential to be a big explosion of what spaceflight is gonna mean to just an everyday person in the near future. I think it's very hopeful for our young people: all the exciting things that they could be doing in the future relative to space and space exploration.

  

  Peggy Whitson
  • People
  • Future
  • Space

• Particularly black Americans, many of them, from quotes that I have seen and conversations I've had, are sort of insulted that the civil rights movement is being hijacked - the rhetoric of the civil rights movement is being hijacked for something like same sex marriage. Black Americans tend to have a higher degree of religiosity.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Black
  • Marriage
  • Sex

• Two monks sit facing, playing chess on the mountain, The bamboo shadow on the board is dark and clear. Not a person sees the bamboo's shadow, One sometimes hears the pieces being moved.

  

  Bai Juyi
  • Dark
  • Mountain
  • Shadow

• I was really happy in the Globe and - in the Globe and Mail debate, which was on the economy, that there were questions about infrastructure, about immigration, about housing. These things have often been seen as municipal issues, but they truly are pan-Canadian issues. Now, I'm not saying I'm happy with all the answers, but I'm happy that at least we're talking about them.

  

  Naheed Nenshi
  • Economy
  • Immigration
  • Debate

• Time for creative ideation and quiet reflection is as much a luxury as is the physical beauty of the space you live in.

  

  Gauri Khan
  • Space
  • Reflection
  • Live In