Aravind Adiga White Tiger Quotes

#1. Opening the book, i inhaled. the smell of old books, so sharp, so dry you can taste it.

Diane Setterfield

#2. The best thing about recess is that it doesn't matter if you are having trouble paying attention in class
suddenly, you are paying attention to a million things on the playground.

Lenore Look

#3. pants. Juni looks at me and grins shakily. "I wanted to be a vet

Darren Shan

#4. She was speaking again, her voice like the chirp of a bird who has flown into a black tunnel but does not yet know it.

Andre Dubus III

#5. The Great Socialist himself is said to have embezzled one billion rupees from the Darkness, and transferred that money into a bank account in a small, beautiful country in Europe full of white people and black money.

Aravind Adiga

#6. Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.

Paul Wellstone

#7. Sometimes I get jealous when I'm reading a great book by a younger writer. But 'White Tiger' is so good, I almost forgot to hate Aravind Adiga.

David Benioff

#8. I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure.

Jonathan Kozol

#9. There come a few times in a person's life where there is a clear choice," Cadvan said. "The difference between one person and another is how they meet that choice,

Alison Croggon

#10. When I was writing 'The White Tiger' I lived in a building pretty much exactly like the one I described in this novel, and the people in the book are the people I lived with back then. So I didn't have to do much research to find them.

Aravind Adiga

#11. Think of it as Angelina Jolie. You've heard she's mad and eats nothing but wallpaper paste. But you would, wouldn't
you?

Jeremy Clarkson

#12. We'll call you ... Ram. Wait - don't we have a Ram in this class? I don't want any confusion, it'll be Balram. You know who Balram was, don't you?"
"No, sir."
"He was the sidekick of the god Krishna. Know what my name is?"
"No, sir."
"He laughed. "Krishna.

Aravind Adiga

#13. But I complain about the police the way the rich complain; not the way the poor complain.
The difference is everything.

Aravind Adiga

#14. We may not have sewage, drinking water, and Olympic gold medals, but we do have democracy.

Aravind Adiga

#15. I write about nerds who go the extra mile and become rock stars.

Ben Mezrich

#16. A White Tiger keeps no friends. It's too dangerous.

Aravind Adiga

#17. Sardonic, seriocomic saga of the plight of India's poor.

Aravind Adiga