Akhil Sharma Quotes
My wife is the most wonderful woman in the world, and my parents are the most extraordinary father and mother.
Quotes to Explore
-
We're spirited and spiritual... and fun follows us around.
-
I'm very obsessed with 'The Real Housewives' franchise. It's a bad obsession.
-
Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.
-
I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
-
America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
-
I still pray a lot. I still believe in God. I just don't believe in any set religion.
-
I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.
-
Well, the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and represented the most logical market for us to work in.
-
When I think of the most beautiful women, they're not supermodels.
-
We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class!
-
People seem to need a likable protagonist more than ever.
-
I find that you learn from others. It's very much about watching TV and watching movies for me and grasping that way and watching other people act.
-
After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
-
My motivation and aspiration is the same, being number one or being number five. So that's the truth. And my goal is the same - it's to always be happy playing, it's to enjoy the game and improve always.
-
Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
-
I'd studied English literature at university, but I was also far more enamored with Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, and James Joyce. That was my passion.
-
People, who accused me of practising a monopoly were wrong. The media fuelled rumours about my 'monopoly.' The first question I was always asked during interviews was about my supposed monopoly.
-
Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
-
After I work with my editor to get the manuscript in good shape, I sketch and lay out a whole book loosely, usually in black and white. You learn things about your text when you have to think about pacing and page-turns.
-
In retrospect there were failures enough to go around. There were failures before the storm and failures after the storm.
-
After graduating high school, Betty attended the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Birmingham, Alabama, the alma mater of both her parents. My mother relocated to New York because she refused to accept the oppressive racism of the Jim Crow south.
-
It is the world's first Ebola epidemic, and it's spiraling out of control. It's bad now, and it's going to get worse in the very near future. There is still a window of opportunity to tamp it down, but that window is closing. We really have to act now.
-
My wife is the most wonderful woman in the world, and my parents are the most extraordinary father and mother.
