Anees Salim Quotes

#1. Contemporary fiction is the hardest for me because I am not really in the popular culture - I don't watch TV.

Gail Carson Levine

#2. Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers.
(Il ne faut pas toucher aux idoles: la dorure en reste aux mains.)

Gustave Flaubert

#3. Lentils are friendly - the Miss Congeniality of the bean world.

Laurie Colwin

#4. Dreams ought to produce no conviction whatever on philosophical minds. If we consider how many dreams are dreamt every night, and how many events occur every day, we shall no longer wonder at those accidental coincidences which ignorance mistakes for verifications.

Charles Caleb Colton

#5. We must ensure that today's seniors' benefits are rock solid and find a solution that fixes Social Security for the next generation that is just entering the workforce.

John Thune

#6. It feels like we should do something," he said. "Like, send her off on a barge out to sea and set her on fire. Let her go out in a blaze of glory."
Chubs raised an eyebrow. "It's a minivan, not a Viking.

Alexandra Bracken

#7. We do not take humor seriously enough.

Konrad Lorenz

#8. A wise man knows; learn from others, never get complacent and know where the classic old dangers come from.

Bear Grylls

#9. If we unite, we can surmount any mountain and make things happen for the betterment of all.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#10. The moment the rickshaw stopped, your abba said, 'This is Vanity Bagh, where we will build our home and make it heaven-like.

Anees Salim

#11. Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don't know you know.

Adrienne Rich