FastSaying

This world is out of date


Kamila Shamsie

  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

Her definition of romance was absentminded intimacy, the way someone else's hand stray to your plate...
KAMILA SHAMSIE You have this ability to find beauty in weird places.
KAMILA SHAMSIE We never actually have serious conversations about anything for more than 20 seconds. So there’s a...
KAMILA SHAMSIE For a second I was almost jealous of the clouds. Why was he looking to them for an escape when I was...
KAMILA SHAMSIE Those Genes Could Have Been Mine
KAMILA SHAMSIE And yet. When I read the Dawn on line and then looked around me to the pristine surroundings of camp...
KAMILA SHAMSIE Why do you have to be so annoying sometimes?"
"Cant help it. It's the company I keep.
KAMILA SHAMSIE I didn’t tell him that I grew up in an ugly city that taught me how to look between dust and rubbi...
KAMILA SHAMSIE We went to school in a place without the sun,and believed this means we had no need of our shadows.
KAMILA SHAMSIE Bijli fails in the dead of night / Won’t help to call “I need a light” / You’re in Karachi n...
KAMILA SHAMSIE That night as I cried myself to sleep I knew that, somewhere in the sky, Karim was doing the same; a...
KAMILA SHAMSIE I'll fall.'
'You wont fall.'
'I'll fall. I'll fall and I'll die.'
As I said it, I cou...
KAMILA SHAMSIE How do you eat your roots?
KAMILA SHAMSIE … and that’s why they leave, isn’t it? Because they have to see themselves in the context of s...
KAMILA SHAMSIE Is love stronger when it let's go or when it holds on?
KAMILA SHAMSIE Somewhere deep within the marrow of our marrow, we were the same.
KAMILA SHAMSIE If I wasn't me, you wouldn't be you.
KAMILA SHAMSIE They adore you beacause they think you offer up your friendship and ask for nothing in return. But t...
KAMILA SHAMSIE Can angels lie spine to spine?
If not, how they must envy us humans
KAMILA SHAMSIE Come on! Think of Miandad hitting that six off Sharma. If he could do that, you can do this.
KAMILA SHAMSIE If we had more reliable systems of law and governance perhaps our friendship would be shallower.
KAMILA SHAMSIE He hung up so gently, I didn’t even hear the click.
KAMILA SHAMSIE I still hear the world spinning.
KAMILA SHAMSIE There’s a ghost of a dream that you don’t even try to shake free off because you’re too in lov...
KAMILA SHAMSIE All around us, Karachi kept moving
KAMILA SHAMSIE Don’t, please, don’t disappear.
KAMILA SHAMSIE Yes, I’d still have Sonia. And Zia. And so many other things that Karim no longer had. I’d still...
KAMILA SHAMSIE I can see you, out there, reading between the lines. Come home, stranger. Come home, untangler of my...
KAMILA SHAMSIE The truths we conceal don't disappear Raheen, they appear in different forms
KAMILA SHAMSIE This is the worst of our ways of remembering--this tendency to prod the crust of anecdote in the hop...
KAMILA SHAMSIE Coming back to Karachi is like stepping into the sea again after months on land. How easily you floa...
KAMILA SHAMSIE Character is just an invention, but it's an invention that serves as both reason and justification f...
KAMILA SHAMSIE Everything else you can live around, but not death. Death you have to live through.
KAMILA SHAMSIE I can't even
SARAH VAN WATERSCHOOT It is not the least bit coincidental that adults who commit suicide with firearms nearly always shoo...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.
C.S. LEWIS All the equipment is basically out of date now.
JOEL BRANN I hope something happens. I'm restless as the devil and have a horror of getting fat or falling in l...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date.
MARIE VON EBNER-ESCHENBACH Your heart just breaks, that's all. But you can't judge or point fingers. You just have to be lucky ...
AUDREY HEPBURN Think of the old cliché about the mind being 'an excellent servant but a terrible master'. This, li...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE Please be SILENT and LISTEN.
I am the SCHOOLMASTER
and you are in the CLASSROOM.
Just...
PSEUDONYMOUS BOSCH The definition is out of date and out of sync with current nutritional concerns for children,
MARGO WOOTAN and never be out of date.
COUNT BASIE Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction
WILLIAM BLAKE While their analysis is seen as proper, it is also somewhat out of date. If it was up to date it wou...
ADRIAN SCHMIDT What matters is the content of this summit, not the date,
SAEB ERAKAT God's retirement plan is out of this world
SOURCE UNKNOWN Our retirement plan is out of this world.
JO DAVIDSON That's it really; it's all love, whichever way you look at it, it's all love. How much you can Get f...
GEORGE HARRISON Sacramento's my new love, so I'm going to take this first date and hopefully make a marriage out of ...
BONZI WELLS I went out on a date with Simile. I don't know what I metaphor.
TIM VINE The current system is terribly secretive. ... It's over-complicated and it's certainly out of date.
ANNE CAMPBELL And for winter fly-fishing it is as useful as an almanac out of date.
IZAAK WALTON This is our most significant release to date.
LARRY BARBETTA Our confidence in overtime is out of this world.
LAURA HARPER This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date.. History is moving pretty quic...
IAN FLEMING This is the highest level of weekly non-travel spending recorded to date.
GRAHAM MUDD -ingen Penge mere og kan ikke arbejde, blaut, Far, udsuget, Fan danse mig.
KNUT HAMSUN [However, some economists warn about interpretation of the OECD's signals.] While their analysis is ...
ADRIAN SCHMIDT When you compare him with his predecessor, who took the Vatican by storm and the world by storm, thi...
CHESTER GILLIS Believe it or not, they pulled the date out of a hat,
MAHDI BRAY In terms of the epidemiological risk of diabetes, this is by far the biggest finding to date.
DAVID ALTSHULER The volume of phone inquiries (to the chamber) is up 46 percent to date this year.
DAN LENNON Friday night is our date night. We really carve out time for each other.
KAREN KAIN I'm in the movies that they dump. Last year we came out on the worst date, with Paparazzi . This yea...
COLE HAUSER Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date, and are rarely invoked.
RALPH NADER This is a tragic date that we don't want people to ignore.
CHRIS WANGRO This is the longest survival reported to date for advanced ovarian cancer.
DR. DEBORAH ARMSTRONG She's out of this world right now.
JOE BIDDY Some people are anchored to this world by their feet, others by their fears.
JOHN KRAMER In the lonely light of morning, in a world that would not heal, it's the bitter taste of losing ever...
SARAH MCLACHLAN In this episode, it picks up that they did date some and he stopped calling Reba and you found out w...
JAMIE DENTON Telephone books are, like dictionaries, already out of date the moment they are printed....
AMMON SHEA [LOS ANGELES -] I'm in the movies that they dump, ... Last year we came out on the worst date, with ...
COLE HAUSER Everyone got a follower, how good or bad is all this shit, it's another topic… JUst leave it for l...
DEYTH BANGER This is a beautiful action thriller -- it's a great date movie -- age appropriate,
JESSICA ALBA It is in this context that I understand that the achievement of the completion date will be challeng...
FORESTRY MINISTER BUYELWA SONJICA This was by far our finest game of the season to date.
ROBERTO ABELE I think of how perhaps the best way to fly would be with hands full of earth, so you always remember...
ALLY CONDIE All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Even though he was inside the house, I could still hear Vlad’s sardonic mutter of “Where’s a t...
JEANIENE FROST I'm definitely not up-to-date on the high-tech videogame world.
RACHEL DRATCH This is the absolute worst hack that has happened, the biggest scam to date.
AVIVAH LITAN The most eloquent eulogy of capitalism was made by its greatest enemy. Marx is only anti-capitalist ...
ALBERT CAMUS The world that we live in is a weakness. To continuously live in an environment that weakens you, on...
APURVA GAGLANI As of this date, we haven't received any correspondence asking for our help.
CHERRY HILL Stop worrying -- nobody gets out of this world alive.
CLIVE JAMES Stop worrying / nobody gets out of this world alive.
CLIVE JAMES It would have taken something out of this world.
CLINT KRIEWALDT Let the power of your love change the world, but never let the problems of this world change the bea...
DEBASISH MRIDHA You lose some date flexibility in this compression,
BRIAN BARNHART I would like to experience this 'date' phenomenon.
VERONICA ROTH Really, Sage? A date?”
I sighed. “Yes, Adrian. A date.”
“A real date. Not, like, d...
RICHELLE MEAD Ditched like an unwanted cat, worn-out tire, ugly blind date.
DENNIS VICKERS This world is nothing more than a culture of death which has set out to evolve.
LAURA E. BRUSSEAU On April 1, 1998, I launched Webmaster-Resources.com, and I remember that date specifically because ...
MATT MICKIEWICZ I think that we don't want to let this thing hang out there forever, but I don't want to be driven b...
DON PERATA This is one rule about mixing boys and girls: that a date always comes first.
ELIZABETH BERG There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON

More Kamila Shamsie

Her definition of romance was absentminded intimacy, the way someone else's hand stray to your plate...
KAMILA SHAMSIE You have this ability to find beauty in weird places.
KAMILA SHAMSIE We never actually have serious conversations about anything for more than 20 seconds. So there’s a...
KAMILA SHAMSIE For a second I was almost jealous of the clouds. Why was he looking to them for an escape when I was...
KAMILA SHAMSIE Those Genes Could Have Been Mine
KAMILA SHAMSIE And yet. When I read the Dawn on line and then looked around me to the pristine surroundings of camp...
KAMILA SHAMSIE Why do you have to be so annoying sometimes?"
"Cant help it. It's the company I keep.
KAMILA SHAMSIE I didn’t tell him that I grew up in an ugly city that taught me how to look between dust and rubbi...
KAMILA SHAMSIE We went to school in a place without the sun,and believed this means we had no need of our shadows.
KAMILA SHAMSIE Bijli fails in the dead of night / Won’t help to call “I need a light” / You’re in Karachi n...
KAMILA SHAMSIE That night as I cried myself to sleep I knew that, somewhere in the sky, Karim was doing the same; a...
KAMILA SHAMSIE I'll fall.'
'You wont fall.'
'I'll fall. I'll fall and I'll die.'
As I said it, I cou...
KAMILA SHAMSIE How do you eat your roots?
KAMILA SHAMSIE … and that’s why they leave, isn’t it? Because they have to see themselves in the context of s...
KAMILA SHAMSIE Is love stronger when it let's go or when it holds on?
KAMILA SHAMSIE Somewhere deep within the marrow of our marrow, we were the same.
KAMILA SHAMSIE If I wasn't me, you wouldn't be you.
KAMILA SHAMSIE They adore you beacause they think you offer up your friendship and ask for nothing in return. But t...
KAMILA SHAMSIE Can angels lie spine to spine?
If not, how they must envy us humans
KAMILA SHAMSIE Come on! Think of Miandad hitting that six off Sharma. If he could do that, you can do this.
KAMILA SHAMSIE If we had more reliable systems of law and governance perhaps our friendship would be shallower.
KAMILA SHAMSIE He hung up so gently, I didn’t even hear the click.
KAMILA SHAMSIE I still hear the world spinning.
KAMILA SHAMSIE There’s a ghost of a dream that you don’t even try to shake free off because you’re too in lov...
KAMILA SHAMSIE All around us, Karachi kept moving
KAMILA SHAMSIE Don’t, please, don’t disappear.
KAMILA SHAMSIE Yes, I’d still have Sonia. And Zia. And so many other things that Karim no longer had. I’d still...
KAMILA SHAMSIE I can see you, out there, reading between the lines. Come home, stranger. Come home, untangler of my...
KAMILA SHAMSIE The truths we conceal don't disappear Raheen, they appear in different forms
KAMILA SHAMSIE This is the worst of our ways of remembering--this tendency to prod the crust of anecdote in the hop...
KAMILA SHAMSIE Coming back to Karachi is like stepping into the sea again after months on land. How easily you floa...
KAMILA SHAMSIE Character is just an invention, but it's an invention that serves as both reason and justification f...
KAMILA SHAMSIE Everything else you can live around, but not death. Death you have to live through.
KAMILA SHAMSIE They aren't going to get base hits in the gaps against her. She makes them hit soft ground balls and...
TARA SHAMSIE Like our other games, we improved our rebounding in the second half. So we have to think about it an...
KAMILA VODICHKOVA It was very important because I think we lost the rebounding in the first half,
KAMILA VODICHKOVA I really miss my fans. It was strange. I felt like home, but when I scored I didn't get the applause...
KAMILA VODICHKOVA There was no religious component to the violence. All the violence was influenced by small groups of...
KAMILA HYAT Our view is that if surveillance has happened, it is undemocratic. This is a violation of human righ...
KAMILA HYAT This is very frivolous way of looking at rape cases in the country.
KAMILA HYAT Violence against women is a universal problem. Many governments have taken serious steps to deal wit...
KAMILA HYAT