FastSaying

Most people write a lot of autobiography, but when I came to write autobiography I discovered that nothing interesting had ever happened to me. So I had to take the situation and invent stories to go with it.


W. P. Kinsella

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

No, no, I will write no autobiography. I do not believe that someone can write a perfectly honest au...
CHRISTA WOLF I won't write my autobiography because I never had an affair with Frank Sinatra, and if I had had, I...
CELIA JOHNSON I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so...
PHILIP ROTH I won't write my autobiography because I never had an affair with Frank Sinatra, and if I had ha...
CELIA JOHNSON It was a terrible day. I can only console myself with the fact that if it hadn't happened I wouldn't...
DICK FRANCIS There may be a point where I may decide to write an autobiography.
PAMELA STEPHENSON I write for kids because I think the most interesting (and most humorous) stories come from people&#...
JEFF KINNEY I don't want to write an autobiography because I would become public property with no privacy le...
STEPHEN HAWKING Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. ...
KATE ATKINSON How is it possible to write one's autobiography in a world so fast-changing as this?
MALCOLM X I get to tell the most interesting stories I know how to tell with the most interesting sentences I ...
AMY BLOOM I don't think anybody should write his autobiography until after he's dead.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN I have been commissioned to write an autobiography and I would be grateful to any of your readers wh...
JEFFREY BERNARD I had several publishers, and they were all the same. They all wanted salacious. And everybody is wr...
ANITA PALLENBERG The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO Only if I reach 100 years old will I write a very complete autobiography. Not before.
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA My manager, Norma, was trying to get me to write it for at least 10 years and being the reclusive pe...
SPIKE MILLIGAN One of the most arrogant undertakings, to my mind, is to write the biography of a man which pretends...
THEODOR HAECKER When I left Milwaukee, and I had all these stories. I felt so responsible for people. It's a hec...
MATTHEW DESMOND I had, at a point in time, decided not to write on the corporate world. But if people expect me to s...
RAVI SUBRAMANIAN Get this (economic plan) passed. Later on, we can all debate it.
, TO NEW HAMPSHIRE LEGISLATORS The fact is that if the writer's attention is on producing a work of art, a work that is good in its...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiogra...
EVELYN WAUGH Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiogra...
EVELYN WAUGH I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN I write the vocals last, because I wanted to invent the music first and push the music to the level ...
AXL ROSE I was definitely difficult. I definitely had to be - not pushed into it, but say it's OK to go and w...
MARC ROBERGE Certainly I find it most interesting to play a role that I can invent from nothing.
BRENT SPINER Going on unemployment was a total low point for me, but it was also the point when I promised myself...
PAUL DOWNS COLAIZZO I realised that I had always been writing things that other people wanted me to write and not what I...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON I hated being a novelist when I was 20 - I had nothing to write about.
A. S. BYATT Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN I was thinking about what I wanted to write next, after my first novel, and had decided that I wante...
JOAN D. VINGE Don't believe in everything that is written. Not everything that is written is true
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA The power of a writer is that he is a god of sorts. He can create his own worlds and populate them w...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA I write about personal experiences. I write about things that have happened to me and the people aro...
JAMES BAY When people ask me if I have a hobby, a lot of times my answer is that I like to surf in warm water....
SCOTT WEILAND The course of life in unpredictable. No one can write his autobiography in advance.
ABRAHAM HESCHEL The course of life is unpredictable, no one can write his autobiography in advance.
RABBI ABRAHAM HESCHEL The course of life in unpredictable. No one can write his autobiography in advance.
ABRAHAM J. HESCHEL I had no plan to write a western novel, and when I realized it was happening, I was pretty surprised...
PATRICK DEWITT I've been asked to write an autobiography, and I've started it a couple of times, on differe...
JOHN SAXON To be honest, I used to always procrastinate when I write. I mean, I love writing, but I hate it.
DAVID GRANN As far back as I remember, long before I could write, I had played at making stories. But not until ...
ELLEN GLASGOW To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world...
GARY F EVANS... I think a lot of the people who write about me think that if they had to write fewer interviews then...
JAY MCINERNEY I wanted to write some lyrics that had some meaning to them, lyrics that were meaningful to me and h...
ADAM RICH I might not have ever had the courage to write those stories without that experience, that training ...
DOROTHY ALLISON My autobiography now offers me the chance to lay down my life story and place recent events in prope...
PETE TOWNSHEND There's actually nothing interesting about me except what I write.
ANDREA BARRETT I'm happy, I would say that I'm one of the happiest people I know but I've certainly had...
RICHARD MARX For 20 years, Simon & Schuster asked me, 'Why don't you write your autobiography?'
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER But even before that, in 1980 I went so far as to write a book about what had happened. And I wrote ...
PATTY HEARST I discovered that Robert Todd Lincoln was there for each of the first three assassinations. I wanted...
SARAH VOWELL In this one book are the two most interesting personalities in the whole world - God and yourself. T...
FULTON OURSLER In this one book are the two most interesting personalities in the whole world--God and yourself. Th...
FULTON OURSLER I tried once in my life to write a novel. I had written something like 80 pages of it when my laptop...
ETGAR KERET My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father ca...
JHUMPA LAHIRI I certainly grew up seeing more movies and television than I read books, but when it came time to do...
JOHN SAYLES I just love storytelling. I write music to tell stories. So when I'm done writing a song, I take...
HAYLEY KIYOKO With songs, I've always pledged to be honest. I write my songs because I've lived them.
KATY PERRY I write literary biographies, so above all, I have to love the subject's books. But choosing a s...
BLAKE BAILEY I'm asking God to bless you with something that unsettles you, disturbs you, and upsets you.
CRAIG GROESCHEL I came to love, I came into my own.
THEODORE ROETHKE My son had toyed with the idea of writing and trying to write a little bit, so that kind of gave me ...
GEORGE STRAIT At Marvel, I was lucky enough to work with really talented people, but I always had this nagging tho...
DAVID MAZZUCCHELLI Don't force yourself to write. Some people can write a novel in a few months, whereas for others...
CECELIA AHERN I began using pseudonyms early in my career, when I was being paid a quarter a cent a word for my wo...
EVAN HUNTER I want to F. Scott Fitzgerald. An autobiography, written by me.
HANNAH HOBSON If you are afraid of the critics you will never write a word
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA I wish they would only take me as I am. - Dear Theo: Autobiography of Vincent Van Gogh.
VINCENT VAN GOGH When I was excited about life, I didn't want to write at all. I've never written when I was happy. I...
JEAN RHYS A Ritual to Read to Each Other


If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD My grandfather started his autobiography before he died; he never finished it. I would like to finis...
KARRINE STEFFANS When I write an original story I write about people I know first-hand and situations I'm familia...
SATYAJIT RAY If I can write, who possibly can’t. Even drawing a line in the sand is writing
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Just to be in love seemed the most blissful luxury I had ever known. The thought came to me that per...
DODIE SMITH It got to the point where most of my time went toward writing novels. I would still occasionally wri...
TIM PRATT I just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and ...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN I had to write something and couldn't think of a plot, so I decided to write a Cinderella story ...
GAIL CARSON LEVINE All my interesting stories are from before I was on television. Nothing interesting has happened to ...
GRAHAM NORTON I was a good dog. I had fulfilled my purpose. Lessons I had learned from being feral had taught me h...
W. BRUCE CAMERON My process for determining which eras I'd write about was to just read history books that gave a...
SUSAN BARKER I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England.
ELIZABETH I (SPOKEN TO HER PARLAMENT) When I write, I try to represent the voices of people I've known who had no voice.
CARLA H. KRUEGER When my writing really started to take off was when I made a decision that I would write only what I...
DAVID FRIEDMAN You should not do an autobiography if you want to tell the truth. There are a lot of things I know a...
ABRAHAM A. RIBICOFF One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on...
CARLOS FUENTES When I read good stories, I want to write good stories too.
SHARON CREECH I write so that people will read what I write. I don't want to write a book that a thousand peop...
ANN HOOD

More W. P. Kinsella

Most writers are unhappy with film adaptations of their work, and rightly so. 'Field of Dreams,&...
W. P. KINSELLA I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.
W. P. KINSELLA Read, read, read, read and then read some more.
W. P. KINSELLA I knew how to read box scores and who the baseball heroes were before I had ever seen or even heard ...
W. P. KINSELLA Baseball is meant to be a contemplative game. They play music to draw young people to the game. If y...
W. P. KINSELLA If I have a choice between looking something up and making it up, I'll make it up every time.
W. P. KINSELLA I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it...
W. P. KINSELLA I don't believe in the afterlife.
W. P. KINSELLA The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like bird...
W. P. KINSELLA Find something that thrills you, and when you finish reading it for enjoyment, read it again line by...
W. P. KINSELLA One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest ...
P. W. LITCHFIELD There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.
P. W. BRIDGMAN Talent is something, but tact is everything. It is the interpreter of all riddles, the surmounter of...
W. P. SCARGILL Easter is not a passport to another world; it is a quality of perception for this one.
W. P. LEMON Your father always tries to see the good side of people; to find the excuse. But sometimes there isn...
SOPHIE KINSELLA Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get
W.P. KINSELLA In the end, you have to choose whether or not to trust someone.
SOPHIE KINSELLA A mistake isn’t a mistake unless it can’t be put right.
SOPHIE KINSELLA This is what happens. You tell your friends your most personal secrets, and they use them against yo...
SOPHIE KINSELLA The one constant through all the years has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of stea...
W.P. KINSELLA Syzygy, inexorable, pancreatic, phantasmagoria --- anyone who can use those four words in one senten...
W.P. KINSELLA I love all my characters. I love their weaknesses and flaws. I feel like they're all my best fri...
SOPHIE KINSELLA My real name is Madeleine Wickham, under which I write dramas with an edge of humour. As Sophie Kins...
SOPHIE KINSELLA Shopping with friends is a great way of still enjoying the thrill of the chase without having to mak...
SOPHIE KINSELLA I love new clothes. If everyone could just wear new clothes everyday, I reckon depression wouldn’t...
SOPHIE KINSELLA Okay. Now my skin is really prickling. I've read all the Harry Potter books, all five of them. I don...
SOPHIE KINSELLA I always thought 'chick lit' meant third-person contemporary funny novels, dealing with issu...
SOPHIE KINSELLA I never did any training in journalism or in finance, so I really was in the deep end. I got very go...
SOPHIE KINSELLA If I behave as though this is a completely normal situation, then maybe it will be ...
SOPHIE KINSELLA sometimes you don't need a goal in life, you don't need to know the big picture. you just need to kn...
SOPHIE KINSELLA It's like I'm thirteen again and he's my crush. All I'm aware of in this entire roomful of people is...
SOPHIE KINSELLA My own life has been doubly disconnected, as I've written books under two different names. As an...
SOPHIE KINSELLA You look... amazing!"
And I have to say, I agree. I'm wearing all black - but expensive black....
SOPHIE KINSELLA She's been used to hiding her feelings for so long, no wonder her manner can be a little awkward.
SOPHIE KINSELLA I think a lot of people still fantasise about that first love and what might happen if they rekindle...
SOPHIE KINSELLA But, Audrey, that's what life is. We're all on a jagged graph. I know I am. Up a bit, down a bit. Th...
SOPHIE KINSELLA I think what I’ve realized is, life is all about climbing up, slipping down, and picking yourself ...
SOPHIE KINSELLA You can't even communicate in English. Real life is not a series of levels.
SOPHIE KINSELLA She says screens are the cigarettes of our age. They're toxic, and we're only going to realize the d...
SOPHIE KINSELLA Darling, when things go wrong in life, you lift your chin, put on a ravishing smile, mix yourself a ...
SOPHIE KINSELLA I hurl the glass teapot to the ground.

we both stare at it, stunned.

"it was s...
SOPHIE KINSELLA Harper has hugged the center. What Americans should expect is a centrist Conservative who is quite d...
WARREN KINSELLA Relationships are all about trust and equality. If one person shares, then the other person should s...
SOPHIE KINSELLA We’re on this planet for too short a time. And at the end of the day, what’s more important? Kno...
SOPHIE KINSELLA Serenity is a very elusive quality. I've been trying all my life to find it.
W.P. KINSELLA It is never too late to seek a better world
NICK KINSELLA If my writing comes to a halt, I head to the shops: I find them very inspirational. And if I get int...
SOPHIE KINSELLA If you want something you can't afford, think what else that money could buy: a week's groce...
SOPHIE KINSELLA There's no luck in business. There's only drive, determination, and more drive.
SOPHIE KINSELLA The best lover in the world is the one who brings out the best in me.
NICK KINSELLA Women are not complicated or confusing. It’s just that most men don’t understand that women just...
NICK KINSELLA Don't forget. In a years time you could be dead. Don't postpone a life for tomorrow that you can sta...
NICK KINSELLA There's nothing like your mother's sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears.
SOPHIE KINSELLA Be firm and stand your ground but never get angry
NICK KINSELLA The secret for keeping a woman interested in you is to give her a wide emotional range to experience...
NICK KINSELLA You will only ever hurt a woman if you promise her more than you can give. Be honest about your inte...
NICK KINSELLA Men who are successful with women have something at the centre of their being which isn't dependent ...
NICK KINSELLA Every time you encounter a difficulty or a problem in anything you do don't get down about it. It is...
NICK KINSELLA If its true that there is no god and we are alone in this universe then I would think that it is ver...
NICK KINSELLA You can always have success if you want it badly enough. Remember though, that success like anything...
NICK KINSELLA There are two categories of people in this world. The first get their feeling of self worth by belit...
NICK KINSELLA People often say that a very attractive woman is 'out of their league' Let me be clear about this......
NICK KINSELLA Fundamentally, attraction is nothing but a perspective.
NICK KINSELLA Happiness must come first! only then can you have the partner of your dreams
NICK KINSELLA A great man is someone who has made the effort to give great deal of value to the lives of others.
NICK KINSELLA When a girl asks 'what do you do for a living?’ she is actually asking us who we believe we are. M...
NICK KINSELLA Don't live as if you are to die tomorrow. That isn't useful. Instead live as if you only had ten yea...
NICK KINSELLA Wisdom is not a number
NICK KINSELLA If your life is not to your liking then it is no ones fault but your own. Sorry if that offends you ...
NICK KINSELLA If you make it a mission of yours to acquire lots attractive female friends that you will keep as ju...
NICK KINSELLA Knowledge is useless without action. Action requires knowledge but knowledge does not guarantee acti...
NICK KINSELLA The problem with some people is that they use their religion as a part of their identity rather than...
NICK KINSELLA With any emotion you wish to avoid negative emotions such as hatred, shame, blame, regret, resentmen...
NICK KINSELLA Choose from this day forward who you are
NICK KINSELLA If you knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that you had exactly ten years to live, how would you live di...
NICK KINSELLA Everything you want is outside your comfort zone. If it wasn’t, you would already have it.
NICK KINSELLA I am friends with someone because they bring out the best in me. In this respect all of my friends a...
NICK KINSELLA When I was your age, if a boy behaved badly, one simply scored his name out from one's dance card. SOPHIE KINSELLA To be honest, going out with Ed after Josh is like moving on to Duchy Originals super-tasty seeded l...
SOPHIE KINSELLA I want him."
"I'm sorry?" I peer at her, flicking my mobile open out of habit.
"The man I ...
SOPHIE KINSELLA Oh, my God, you smiled! Mr. American Frown actually smiled!"
"Must have been a mistake. I'll sp...
SOPHIE KINSELLA I can never resist telling people good news. I mean, why not brighten someone else's life too?
SOPHIE KINSELLA It's easy to discount family. It's easy to take them for granted. But your family is your history. Y...
SOPHIE KINSELLA Sometimes, when I can't get to sleep, I imagine all the rules I'd invent if I ever got to be in char...
SOPHIE KINSELLA How are you going to forget him if you keep talking about him? Darling, when things go wrong in life...
SOPHIE KINSELLA I often wonder what she's thinking," says Ed, still gazing up at her. "That's quite an intriguing ex...
SOPHIE KINSELLA If your life's at a juncture and you need to think about things, there's nowhere better than home. H...
SOPHIE KINSELLA I had fun. That’s what I believe in. Fun, flings, the sizzle. It starts as a shiver, when you see ...
SOPHIE KINSELLA ...you may be able to sway people's heads. But you can't sway their hearts.
SOPHIE KINSELLA Some of us have hearts, you know. Some of us don't give up on true love.
SOPHIE KINSELLA She was the most beautiful thing you ever saw. She was radiant. And she was wearing this necklace......
SOPHIE KINSELLA I can see the warmth. He's falling for me.
SOPHIE KINSELLA Life takes us on different paths... It's not up to us to evaluate or judge them, merely respect and ...
SOPHIE KINSELLA The thing about lying to your parents is, you have to do it to protect them.
It’s for their o...
SOPHIE KINSELLA I know what it's like to squander all your hours and all your tears and all your heart on something ...
SOPHIE KINSELLA Life is like an escalator. You see, it carries you on regardless. And you might as well enjoy the vi...
SOPHIE KINSELLA Honestly, it’s so easy to get what you want from people if they think you’re a psycho.
SOPHIE KINSELLA L: You want me just to be your... friend?

E: You want the truth? I think you're my guardi...
SOPHIE KINSELLA The worst thing a girl can do is trail after a boy when a love affair is dead.
SOPHIE KINSELLA I'm allergic to family occasions. Sometimes I think we'd do better as dandelion seeds-no family, no ...
SOPHIE KINSELLA Everyone knows revenge is a dish best served when you've had enough time to build up enough vitriol ...
SOPHIE KINSELLA It's just the way things are. And you can't dwell on what might have been. You have to look at what ...
SOPHIE KINSELLA You can want and want and want, but if he doesn't want you back ... you might as well wish the sky w...
SOPHIE KINSELLA You can't just switch off your feelings because the other person did.
SOPHIE KINSELLA No human on God's earth is a nobody.
SOPHIE KINSELLA It's not enough to believe! Don't you see that, you stupid girl? You could spend your whole life hop...
SOPHIE KINSELLA We're all to driven by materialism. Obsessed with success. With money. With trying to impress people...
SOPHIE KINSELLA When the (crime) scene is released, we will take a look at the guns and start the tracing process.
BILL KINSELLA There’s no such thing as ruining your life. Life’s a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.
SOPHIE KINSELLA Every circumstance in my life is my fault and my responsability. To accept this as a fact is to take...
NICK KINSELLA Women are not attracted to men because they are good looking. Women are attracted to men because the...
NICK KINSELLA The phrase 'Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely' only exists to discourage good peopl...
NICK KINSELLA If you think a woman is so good looking that she must already have a boyfriend' you're probably righ...
NICK KINSELLA It really is the year 2007. Which means I must be...

Oh my God. I'm twenty-eight.
SOPHIE KINSELLA People who say 'I'm not a pessimist, I'm a realist' are actually just negative people who think they...
NICK KINSELLA The thing with giving up is you never know. You never know whether you could have done the job. And ...
SOPHIE KINSELLA I chose to publish the first 'Shopaholic' book under a pseudonym because I wanted it to be j...
SOPHIE KINSELLA Except that stopping mid-sentence is the worst thing people can do. It's, like, totally passive aggr...
SOPHIE KINSELLA Don't beat yourself up for not knowing the answers. You don't always have to know who you are. You d...
SOPHIE KINSELLA When I wrote my first book, 'The Tennis Party', my overriding concern was that I didn't ...
SOPHIE KINSELLA My life has changed, and I'm changing with it.
SOPHIE KINSELLA We're playing Scrabble. It's a nightmare."

"Scrabble?" He sounds surprised. "Scrabble's g...
SOPHIE KINSELLA I'm very lucky. I have a really supportive husband in Henry, and there's my mum, too. I coul...
SOPHIE KINSELLA My earliest, most impactful encounter with a book was when I was seven and awoke early on Christmas ...
SOPHIE KINSELLA To some extent, all authors are a little schizophrenic. We lead most of our lives in solitary confin...
SOPHIE KINSELLA When I'm on a break from writing, I'll log on to Amazon and eBay. The doorbell is constantly...
SOPHIE KINSELLA It won’t be forever. You’ll be in the dark for as long as it takes and then you’ll come out.
SOPHIE KINSELLA I've always had this deep-down conviction that I'm not like everybody else, and there's an amazingly...
SOPHIE KINSELLA We don't have to reveal everything to each other. It's OK to be private. It's OK to say no. It's OK ...
SOPHIE KINSELLA The trouble with giving yourself a pep talk is, that deep down you know it's all bullshit.
SOPHIE KINSELLA I'd laugh, only my stupid lizard brain has disabled the laugh button for now. I'm too frozen up with...
SOPHIE KINSELLA Many people don't realize that there have been over 100 toymakers in the Western New York area.
LYNN KINSELLA We need to open the exhibit and ask people to help.
LYNN KINSELLA Remember what I used to tel you when you were a little girl? ‘A fool and her money soon part.’ C...
SOPHIE KINSELLA Visiting any shop for the first time is exciting. There's always that buzz as you push open the door...
SOPHIE KINSELLA When I shop, the world gets better, and the world is better, but then it's not, and I need to do it ...
SOPHIE KINSELLA So", says Jack at at last..."you broke up with Connor".
Wow. So we're straight to the point. SOPHIE KINSELLA Relationships are a battle. They are a chess game. And what did I do? I just threw all my chess piec...
SOPHIE KINSELLA Toda mi familia se crece con la presión. Es como el lema familiar, o algo así. Con la excepción d...
SOPHIE KINSELLA It's just, there's something compelling about very beautiful people. Especially strong-jawed men wit...
SOPHIE KINSELLA These corners are getting a bit bulky." Mum looks consideringly at the catalog. "Maybe we should fol...
SOPHIE KINSELLA You panicked". Venetia's voice is suddenly throbbing, as though she can't control a long-buried ange...
SOPHIE KINSELLA She had fouled off of the curves that life had thrown at her.
W.P. KINSELLA Ok. don't panic. Don't panic. It's only a VISA bill. It's a piece of paper; a few numbers. I mean, j...
SOPHIE KINSELLA This is me, remember?" retorts Suze. "I know what you're like! You used to throw all your bank state...
SOPHIE KINSELLA Family's the most important thing.
SOPHIE KINSELLA To be an anarchist only means that you believe that aggression is not justified, and that states nec...
N STEPHAN KINSELLA As a practising lawyer, I was mediocre, but I worked hard as a law officer of the state government a...
P. SATHASIVAM If you go back to any period in India's history, all the hard decisions this country had to take...
P. CHIDAMBARAM I have maintained that the people of India are ahead of their governments. The people of India are a...
P. CHIDAMBARAM When I came back to India after Harvard Business School, I started as a lawyer and as a trade union ...
P. CHIDAMBARAM Let me tell you, very frankly, when I went to the Harvard Business School I was more or less a commi...
P. CHIDAMBARAM The police force cannot be completely independent of the executive government.
P. CHIDAMBARAM We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.
P. CHIDAMBARAM I don't think we should label budgets even before the budget is presented.
P. CHIDAMBARAM A government can do only what is feasible given the political and economic context.
P. CHIDAMBARAM Police can only act on intelligence.
P. CHIDAMBARAM In income tax, there is no case for amnesty.
P. CHIDAMBARAM The voter does not vote only on one issue, the voter votes on a multiplicity of issues.
P. CHIDAMBARAM Growth is a panacea for many ills in society; not entirely, but many.
P. CHIDAMBARAM I think people respect governments that take decisions and act decisively.
P. CHIDAMBARAM Criticism of a policy is welcome. But in the garb of criticizing a policy, if you allege that the po...
P. CHIDAMBARAM Two successive commissioners in London police were fired by the mayor that came into office. That do...
P. CHIDAMBARAM People understand what is good for them in the long run. In the long run, what is good for people is...
P. CHIDAMBARAM People are wiser than we are willing to attribute to them.
P. CHIDAMBARAM 'Big business' was a bad phrase in India. To be accused of being big business was the worst ...
P. CHIDAMBARAM I respect the view of a rating agency, but I do not make a budget for the rating agency. I make a bu...
P. CHIDAMBARAM It is possible that, post-Kyoto, the developed countries will recognise the requirements of the deve...
P. CHIDAMBARAM Evidence points out that if you raise tariffs too much it will increase smuggling.
P. CHIDAMBARAM All wisdom does not reside in Delhi.
P. CHIDAMBARAM The concept of a Nash equilibrium n-tuple is perhaps the most important idea in noncooperative game ...
P. ORDESHOOK Today, to allege corruption seems to be the pastime of most people. All kinds of allegations are lev...
P. CHIDAMBARAM Carey's had though times as well, so between the two of us, it's perfect
P!NK My mum and I have an incredible friendship now after a mixture of pain, honesty, unconditional love ...
P!NK I can turn heartbreak into songs that help other people
P!NK Independence is a very subjective assessment.
P. CHIDAMBARAM There are checks and balances and broad separation of powers under the Constitution. Each organ of t...
P. SATHASIVAM Television is not like making records. I wanna tell all you kids, do not try this at home, 'caus...
MASTER P The true source of cheerfulness is benevolence.
P. GODWIN Statistics are like lampposts: they are good to lean on, but they don't shed much light.
STORM P When your looking for the love you thought you had for someone and it starts to become too difficult...
JASHON P Love is about giving, about caring for the other person's welfare. Love is treating someone, in the ...
A. P. One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived
P. BOURGET ...music, music, records, records, noise to cover silence.
A. P. I feel pretty sure I know why the dinosaurs went extinct. They were waiting for Sam to pick out a ce...
P. ANASTASIA Cry in love, But never cry after breakup, It will cry your life.
PRASHANT P If I can go through what I've been through and do a television show with my son and then be a bo...
MASTER P So what! I'm still a rockstar, I got my rock moves, and I don't need you!
P!NK Nothing awakens the conscience like a lot of money.
P. SAINATH Denying the poor access to knowledge goes back a long way. The ancient Smriti political and legal sy...
P. SAINATH Too often, poverty and deprivation get covered as events. That is, when some disaster strikes, when ...
P. SAINATH He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-ni...
W. WIRT Poetry is the language of feeling.
W. WINTER What I focus on in life is what I get. And if I concentrate on how bad I am or how wrong I am or how...
W. MITCHELL Before my accidents, there were ten thousands things I could do. I could spend the rest of my life d...
W. MITCHELL Clemency is one of the brightest diamonds in the crown of majesty.
W. SECKER Usually the greatest boasters are the smallest workers. The deep rivers pay a larger tribute to the ...
W. SECKER Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
W. FUSSELMAN Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more com...
W. GLADDEN For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching has become...
BILL W.