Twinkle Khanna Quotes

My frankness has got me into a lot of trouble. I try to temper it down now. As you get older, you get wiser.

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• I respect all women who came before me to blaze trails into the workplace for us.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Women
  • Me
  • Respect

• When you work on a movie, especially an independent movie, it's a lot of work to make it! It's not just our job as actors - so many people are working so hard, and even the littlest movie takes a lot of work.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Work
  • Job

• I dread the idea of a paparazzi snapping me while I'm out running.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Me
  • Running
  • Idea

• The worldview implied by literary fiction is complex and ambiguous, trying to be faithful to the complexity and ambiguity of life.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Complexity

• I've tried a few times to depart from what I know I can do, and I've failed. I've tried to work outside the studio, but it introduces too many variables that I can't control. I'm really quite narrow, you know.

  

  Irving Penn
  • Work
  • Control
  • I Can

• A cat only has itself.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Cat
  • Only
  • Itself

• A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Good
  • Artist
  • Wrong

• I'm a big fan of 'Akira,' and I think comics are a great place to tell intelligent, fantastical stories. You can say stuff that you wouldn't be able to in other mediums.

  

  Finn Jones
  • Great
  • Think
  • Intelligent

• Because of recent improvements in the accuracy of theoretical predictions based on large scale ab initio quantum mechanical calculations, meaningful comparisons between theoretical and experimental findings have become possible.

  

  Yuan T. Lee
  • Meaningful
  • Possible

• I love South American food, and I haven't really been down there. I really need a vacation.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Love
  • Food
  • Need

• If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

  

  Omar N. Bradley
  • May
  • Technology
  • Wisdom

• If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Body
  • Human
  • Human Body

• It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • People
  • History
  • Think

• If you are the amber mare

  

  Octavio Paz

• He nothing common did or meanUpon that memorable scene,But with his keener eyeThe axe's edge did try.

  

  Andrew Marvell

• 'How strange,' continued the king, with some asperity; 'the police think that they have disposed of the whole matter when they say, 'A murder has been committed,' and especially so when they can add, 'And we are on the track of the guilty persons.''

  

  Alexandre Dumas
  • King
  • Police
  • Guilty

• All traditional logic habitually assumes that precise symbols are being employed. It is therefore not applicable to this terrestial life but only to an imagined celestial existence... logic takes us nearer to heaven than other studies.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Life
  • Heaven
  • Logic

• The virtues chose Modesty to be their queen.'I did not know that I was a virtue,' she said. 'Why did you not choose Innocence?''Because of her ignorance,' they replied. 'She knows nothing but that she is a virtue.'

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Why
  • She
  • Ignorance

• How softly summer shuts, without the creaking of a door.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Door
  • Summer
  • Creaking

• The true wisdom of the philosopher ought to insist in enjoying everything. Yet we apply ourselves to dissecting and destroying everything that is good in itself, that has virtue, albeit the virtue there is in mere illusions. Nature gives us this life like a toy to a weak child. We want to see how it all works; we break everything. There remains in our hands, and before our eyes, stupid and opened too late, the sterile wreckage, fragments that will not again make a whole. The good is so simple.

  

  Eugene Delacroix
  • Wisdom
  • Child
  • Illusion

• I am, uh... a 6 foot tall woman, I feel like I'm a healthy size, I'm not anorexic; and I feel that people who aren't anorexic are punished... for not being anorexic.

  

  Kristen Johnston
  • People

• I'm the keeper of the flame for Whitney Houston. She was the greatest... and I don't want the world to forget that.

  

  Clive Davis
  • World
  • She

• My frankness has got me into a lot of trouble. I try to temper it down now. As you get older, you get wiser.

  

  Twinkle Khanna