Isn't it strange how life won't flow, like a river, but moves in jumps, as if it were held back by l...
ANITA DESAI Usually a feeling of disappointment follows the book, because what I hoped to write is not what I ac...
ANITA DESAI The book begins and ends with the visits to give the impression of a tunnel into their ancestors and...
ANITA DESAI Someone who wants to write should make an effort to write a little something every day. Writing in t...
ANITA DESAI People think that because I write about India I must be trying to portray India in a way.
ANITA DESAI My style of writing is to allow the story to unfold on its own. I try not to structure my work too r...
ANITA DESAI India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how mo...
ANITA DESAI I try to trace the connection between the characters and that way a story or plot emerges.
ANITA DESAI I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.
ANITA DESAI Ever since I could first write I have been doing so. When I was taught how to write and read at scho...
ANITA DESAI Many characters in the novel are representative of types that exist in India. He represents the cast...
ANITA DESAI The bougainvillea hung about it, purple and magenta, in livid balloons.
ANITA DESAI Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one...
MORARJI DESAI The publishing world is very timid. Readers are much braver.
KIRAN DESAI The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.
KIRAN DESAI It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All g...
MORARJI DESAI Therefore, vegetarianism alone can give us the quality of com-passion, which distinguishes man from ...
MORARJI DESAI I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor. I read a lot of American writers.
KIRAN DESAI But so fluid a thing was love.It wasn't firm,he was learning, it wasn't a scripture;it was a wobblin...
KIRAN DESAI If you write a lovely story about India, you're criticized for selling an exotic version of Indi...
KIRAN DESAI Self-help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to h...
MORARJI DESAI Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.
YOGI DESAI 90% of the magic props are of no use...... and you can't do magic with just 10% of props!!
MANGESH DESAI Assumption from Perception creates Deception
MANGESH DESAI A Lover is a focused pervert.
MANGESH DESAI I was trying to be magician and ended up......... well, trying to be a magician
MANGESH DESAI I am sad that once I wasn't alive, I am happy that one day ill die.... If you think that should make...
MANGESH DESAI How do i do this trick? Well even if I knew i wouldn't tell you.
MANGESH DESAI Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.
YOGI DESAI When I was born, the doctor was looking for me.
MANGESH DESAI A man wasn't equal to an animal, not one particle of him. Human life was stinking corrupt, and meanw...
KIRAN DESAI Avian influenza vaccine will be a big source for the disease to spread in India. When the best possi...
ANURADHA DESAI It is not bird flu. We have the best labs. Not one case of bird flu has been detected.
ANURADHA DESAI The government is basically telling us not to make much noise about the issue.
ANURADHA DESAI It is some mistake. I am surprised and shocked at how the government has declared that it is bird fl...
ANURADHA DESAI He was part of such a close-knit community. Hundreds of drivers had visited his home.
BHAIRAVI DESAI There need to be other solutions from the Taxi and Limousine Commission. They do not need to gut the...
BHAIRAVI DESAI Racism, sexism, drug and alcohol abuse, mental illness, unemployment — homelessness encompasses pr...
JENA DESAI An expert gives an objective view. He gives his own view.
MORARJI DESAI I believe in preventing cruelty to all living beings in any form.
MORARJI DESAI Oh, my God! It's like a travesty of justice. He is basically profiting off the misery of working peo...
BHAIRAVI DESAI We are all slaves of our comfort zones.
MANGESH DESAI Always remember that there will be a source of light at the end of every dark tunnel. You just need ...
MEHUL DESAI There is no such thing as “Bad Luck”; it’s just a ghost in your mind.
MEHUL DESAI Winner never quits & quitter never wins. Not applicable to smokers and dopers
MEHUL DESAI The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone. Applicable to those, who are ready to learn at an...
MEHUL DESAI Its your life. Love it & Live it.
MEHUL DESAI When he died, I went about like a ragged crow telling strangers, "My father died, my father died." M...
KIRAN DESAI Everyone is loony in some or other way. Rest who are not; belong to mental asylum.
MEHUL DESAI Sadness was so claustrophobic.
KIRAN DESAI The Indian diaspora is a wonderful place to write from, and I am lucky to be part of it.
KIRAN DESAI Could fulfillment ever be felt as deeply as loss? Romantically she decided that love must surely res...
KIRAN DESAI We should propagate the values of vegetarianism.
MORARJI DESAI The judge got down on his knees, and he prayed to God, he, Jemubhai Popatlal the agnostic, who had m...
KIRAN DESAI The cow was not an Indian cow; therefore it was not holy?
KIRAN DESAI That very afternoon the police arrived at Cho Oyu in a line of toad-colored jeeps that appeared thro...
KIRAN DESAI All of the third-world flights docked here, families waiting days for their connections, squatting o...
KIRAN DESAI Year by year, his life wasn't amounting to anything at all...And yet, another part of him had expand...
KIRAN DESAI His lines had been honed over centuries, passed down through generations, for poor people needed cer...
KIRAN DESAI All day, the colours had been those of dusk, mist moving like a water creature across the great flan...
KIRAN DESAI Biju stepped out of the airport into the Calcutta night, warm, mammalian. His feet sank into dust wi...
KIRAN DESAI Don't be scared, puppy dog, little frog, little duck, duckie dog. It's just rain.
KIRAN DESAI This way of leaving your family for work had condemned them over several generations to have their h...
KIRAN DESAI He knew what his father thought: that immigration, so often presented as a heroic act, could just as...
KIRAN DESAI He wasn't a bad person. He didn't want to fight. The trouble was that he'd tried to be part of the l...
KIRAN DESAI What is this all about,' asked Sai, but her mouth couldn't address her ear in the tumult; her mind c...
KIRAN DESAI He tried to keep on the right side of power, tried to be loyal to so many things that he himself cou...
KIRAN DESAI Could fulfillment be felt as deeply as loss.
KIRAN DESAI But the child shouldn't be blamed for the father's crime, she tried to reason with herself, then. Bu...
KIRAN DESAI You lived intensely with others, only to have them disappear overnight, since the shadow class was c...
KIRAN DESAI Jemu watched his father disappear. He didn't throw the coconut and he didn't cry. Never again would ...
KIRAN DESAI Looking a dead insect in the sack of basmati that had come all the way from Dehra Dun, he almost wep...
KIRAN DESAI But then, how could you have any self-respect knowing that you didn't believe in anything exactly? H...
KIRAN DESAI The fact was that one was left empty-handed. There was no system to soothe the unfairness of things;...
KIRAN DESAI Never again would he know love for a human being that wasn't adulterated by another, contradictory e...
KIRAN DESAI A journey once begun, has no end
KIRAN DESAI All day, the colors had been those of dusk, mist moving like a water creature across the great flank...
KIRAN DESAI Why couldn't she be part of that family? rent a room in someone else's life.
KIRAN DESAI Could fulfillment ever be felt as deeply as loss?
KIRAN DESAI If we do not want to be pained by anybody we must not pain anybody; and how can man consider himself...
MORARJI DESAI The vegetarian movement is an ancient movement and is not quite a modern one.
MORARJI DESAI One has got to choose between the two evils, also between the lesser of the two evils in the matter ...
MORARJI DESAI In the early ages, I believe not much thought was given to what man is and what his real functions s...
MORARJI DESAI I would, therefore, say that for no reason whatsoever, except in self-defence, should one think of k...
MORARJI DESAI For those who believe in God the matter is simpler still and clearly than anything else: because tho...
MORARJI DESAI As long as man eats animals how can cruelty to animals be removed.
MORARJI DESAI One can't be kind to one person and cruel to another.
MORARJI DESAI I do not say that one who is vegetarian is full of compassion and one who is not, is otherwise. We s...
MORARJI DESAI It is, therefore, a fact that anybody who wants to realise Truth or who wants to be humane, must fol...
MORARJI DESAI I do not want to go into its physical reasons: the construction of the human body is different from ...
MORARJI DESAI From this it follows that con-sideration for other persons or for other living beings is very vital ...
MORARJI DESAI When times are busy, fees tend to trend up in Asia.
KALPANA DESAI You see hedge funds more willing to do private equity-type deals. You've suddenly got a whole new po...
KALPANA DESAI I would expect (activity) to be significantly higher than last year, both in terms of volume and rev...
KALPANA DESAI Further not getting threshold revenue (Cost of servicing + margins) from their home subscribers may ...
KOBITA DESAI Normally when such (foreign investment) agreements are spelt out, there are some fundamental control...
KOBITA DESAI The mobile phone market will see a growth of over 50 percent year-on-year in the next two years. The...
KOBITA DESAI The increase in service tax means you pay more now. It adds up to a lot for entry-level users. Any e...
KOBITA DESAI There will be an influx of funds as global investment communities and carriers look toward increasin...
KOBITA DESAI Affordable services, increased penetration, and a willing Indian government would ensure and drive t...
KOBITA DESAI Having these two companies on your board has benefits but it is a challenge to work with multiple pa...
KOBITA DESAI Suitcase is about serving our clientele in a nonjudgmental way. We're not trying to change people's ...
JENA DESAI Racism, sexism, drug and alcohol abuse, mental illness, unemployment — homelessness encompasses pre...
JENA DESAI We run the show. People are amazed that we can do it all.
JENA DESAI A vehicle can be used for 10 years, but technology changes every two years or less.
RAJ DESAI I feel as comfortable anywhere as I feel uncomfortable anywhere.
KIRAN DESAI Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one...
MORAJI R. DESAI It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All go...
MORAJI R. DESAI Self-help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to hel...
MORAJI R. DESAI Then, as you get to more advanced stages, you often can't even have a conversation with the patient....
DR. ABHILASH DESAI With a cancer patient, the person knows and is aware of a lot of the things going on. But in dementi...
DR. ABHILASH DESAI Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most pe...
ANITA BROOKNER You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.
ANITA MERINA Look at the Quakers - they were excellent business people that never lied, never stole; they cared f...
ANITA RODDICK The entertainment business remains a business of blockbusters, and increasingly so.
ANITA ELBERSE Media companies' hit-focused marketing did not emerge in a vacuum. It reflects how consumers mak...
ANITA ELBERSE There is no scientific answer for success. You can't define it. You've simply got to live it and do ...
ANITA RODDICK If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.
ANITA RODDICK Be nice, for everyone that you meet is fighting a harder battle
ANITA RODDICK To succeed you have to believe in something with such a passion that it becomes a reality.
ANITA RODDICK Over the past decade, ... while many businesses have pursued what I call 'business as usual,' I have...
ANITA RODDICK To succeed you have to believe in something with sucha passion that it becomes a reality.
ANITA RODDICK I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs
ANITA RODDICK I want to work for a company that contributes to and is part of the community. I want something not ...
ANITA RODDICK Gentlemen prefer blondes.
ANITA LOOS raspberry drupelets cluster around a cavern of emptiness (paraphrased from her talk on C Span's Book...
ANITA DIAMANT Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never ta...
ANITA BROOKNER WWI is a romantic war, in all senses of the word. An entire generation of men and women left the com...
ANITA SHREVE It's true that the French have a certain obsession with sex, but it's a particularly adult obsession...
ANITA LOOS Memory is more incredible than ink
ANITA LOOS I've had my best times when trailing a Mainbocher evening gown across a sawdust floor. I've always l...
ANITA LOOS Today there are no fairy tales for us to believe in, and this is possibly a reason for the universal...
ANITA LOOS So this gentleman said a girl with brains ought to do something else with them besides think.
ANITA LOOS Gentlemen prefer blondes
ANITA LOOS I'm furious about the women's liberationists. They keep getting up on soapboxes and proclaiming that...
ANITA LOOS Memory is more indelible than ink.
ANITA LOOS I say if it's going to be done, let's do it. Let's not put it in the hands of fate. Let's not put it...
ANITA BAKER I really think that American gentlemen are the best after all, because kissing your hand may make yo...
ANITA LOOS Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biograp...
ANITA BROOKNER A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise ...
ANITA BROOKNER A girl with brains ought to do something with them besides think.
ANITA LOOS Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.
ANITA LOOS What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere -- it is an art form in itself.
ANITA BROOKNER Life...is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball ga...
ANITA BROOKNER Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.
ANITA BROOKNER Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence -- a lot passes you by -- simply because your a...
ANITA BROOKNER Great writers are the saints for the godless.
ANITA BROOKNER She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.
ANITA BROOKNER If we have to tell Hollywood good-by, it may be with one of those tender, old-fashioned, seven-secon...
ANITA LOOS All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being goo...
ANITA BROOKNER Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight.
ANITA DEFRANTZ Fate keeps on happening.
ANITA LOOS The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may ...
ANITA BROOKNER Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just ...
ANITA BROOKNER In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my content...
ANITA BROOKNER Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and...
ANITA BROOKNER Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.
ANITA BROOKNER Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse.
ANITA LOOS No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.
ANITA BROOKNER You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.
ANITA BAKER A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.
ANITA BROOKNER There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants -- more than anything else -- to beco...
ANITA LOOS There's nothing colder than chemistry.
ANITA LOOS The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never...
ANITA BROOKNER You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew; the dead can't answer...
ANITA BROOKNER That our popular art forms have become so obsessed with sex has turned the U.S.A into a nation of ho...
ANITA LOOS A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.
ANITA BROOKNER I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made...
ANITA RODDICK I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs.
ANITA RODDICK When a shy person smiles, it’s like the sun coming out.
ANITA DIAMANT It was one of those perfect fall days when the air is cool enough to wake you up but the sun is also...
ANITA DIAMANT All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and. . . you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by be...
ANITA BROOKNER Kissing your hand may make you feel very very good but a diamond and sapphire bracelet lasts forever
ANITA LOOS If we want technology to serve society rather than enslave it, we have to build systems accessible t...
ANITA BORG I was frustrated with how academia tended to present feminist theory in disconnected or inaccessible...
ANITA SARKEESIAN Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is ...
ANITA BAKER If I could be doing anything, I'd be laying on the floor in my birthday suit eating junk food an...
ANITA BAKER If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.
ANITA RODDICK If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.
ANITA RODDICK I think, though, as African-American women, we are always trained to value our community even at the...
ANITA HILL If I had learned more about business ahead of time, I would have been shaped into believing that it ...
ANITA RODDICK I have spent many hours on the beach collecting sea glass, and I almost always wonder, as I bend to ...
ANITA SHREVE The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart.
ANITA DIAMENT We are witnessing a very slow and painful cultural shift. Some male gamers with a deep sense of enti...
ANITA SARKEESIAN I have really gotten my hands on new material, stuff just really out of the gates. Even if you are g...
ANITA STEWART We appreciate that the DPUC had responded to some of the concerns we had expressed about draft decis...
ANITA STEEVES We appreciate that the DPUC had responded to some of the concerns we had expressed about the draft d...
ANITA STEEVES We'll have to see what happens.
ANITA STEEVES We're still reviewing the decision.
ANITA STEEVES We had a lot of structural damage and broken poles, and when you're in a bucket 35 feet in the air a...
ANITA STEEVES Be smart about your own safety and lock your doors.
ANITA SHELL (It's) $80 for one pill and if you have a bottle of 20 or 30 then you've got a gold mine.
ANITA SHELL So a good homework assignment for everybody, take a screwdriver, unscrew your screws to your strike ...
ANITA SHELL Their target on this home invasion robbery was the medicine that this victim was on.
ANITA SHELL But what happens in the fourth grade you get individual ways you write - you have a unique way of ma...
ANITA SEAMANS This individual used a habit of using upper case (letters) where there should have been a lower case...
ANITA SEAMANS You start out as if you're going to fool them, and the minute your mind strays to anything else, you...
ANITA SEAMANS When you were in first grade, there were letters above the chalkboard.
ANITA SEAMANS Fear is present in our lives due to the absence of faith, not knowing our true identity as heirs & t...
ANITA PLESSIS We give up on our dreams, because we doubt self and struggle with fear of shame and failure, which p...
ANITA PLESSIS