Bapsi Sidhwa Quotes

#1. Cracking India by Bapsi Sidhwa reveals the upheaval of partition through the eyes of a child, "Lame Lenny," a young Parsi girl crippled from polio. Lenny's world is her beloved and beautiful Hindu ayah and her ayah's many Muslim admirers, the cook Imam Din, and the Untouchable gardener.

Nancy Pearl

#2. We're going to have to come together and take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this, regardless of the politics.

Barack Obama

#3. I don't believe in acting. I think that people in life act, but when you are on the stage or, in my case, also on screen, you have to be true.

Luise Rainer

#4. I was trying to break out of the suburbs, and when I did break out, I don't think I took my whole self with me - I think I played a role of being too cool and hip.

Liz Phair

#5. I'm sorry I fought you, Mace," I whispered. "But now that you're mine again, I'm never going to let you go.

Kristen Ashley

#6. You can always control the controllable, and you can never control the uncontrollable.

Ben Tolosa

#7. It would be a crime to eat such a mouse!" he proclaimed everywhere. "An absolute, shameful, yummy crime.

Peter S. Beagle

#8. I don't want to play into the perception that all women should look like fourteen year old boys. I don't want to add to that pressure for young girls. But in Hollywood, there is a constant pressure to look a certain way.

Amber Heard

#9. Love is the foundation of strength.

Elizabeth Hunter

#10. Give me neither poverty nor riches but give me only my daily bread. Otherwise, I may have too much and disown you and say, "Who is the Lord?" Or I may become poor and steal and so dishonor the name of my God.

Anonymous

#11. Who'll try it?" Samantha asked.

John Grisham

#12. I've been present at birth, and death is just as present and in equal balance. And I've been present at death, and birth is just as present, again in equal balance.

Joy Harjo