Cracking India 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. Whitestorm was experienced, wise and brave. When Firestar had been made deputy, he had shown not a scrap of resentment that a lesser cat might have felt. He had supported him from the beginning, and he was the cat Firestar naturally turned to when he needed advice.

Erin Hunter

#3. Work is never finished, only abandoned.

Paul Valery

#4. I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.

Kanye West

#5. Submission to something you didn't preach yourself is no good, I quote. Because Man must burst his ridiculous bonds, which consist of what is supposedly current reality with a prospect of a future reality of scarcely any greater value.

Elfriede Jelinek

#6. Our goal should be minimum standardization of human behavior.

Douglas McGregor

#7. Ideas are like seeds, apparently insignificant when first held in the hand. Once firmly planted, they can grow and flower into almost anything at all, a cornstalk, or a giant redwood, or a flight across the ocean. Whatever a man imagines, he can achieve.

Charles Lindbergh

#8. Life starts with the birth; success starts with the challenge!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#9. My grand plan is that I can master having a better life by making sure I have a regular flow of songs. Then I can give myself time to tour or celebrate or write a film score.

Imogen Heap

#10. But you don't know the world,' I teased her.
'No, only here, and Jamaica of course, Coulibri, Spanish Town. I don't know the other islands at all. Is the world more beautiful, then?'
And how to answer that? 'It's different,' I said.

Jean Rhys

#11. To learn English you must begin by thrusting the jaw forward, almost clenching the teeth, and practically immbilizing the lips. In this way the English produce the series of unpleasant little mews of which their language consists.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#12. Definitely, I think I fulfill a very funny Indian stereotype because I love technology. It's something I've always been interested in.

Manish Dayal

#13. For me, poetry has no point in existing if it's not to be a prompt or aid to political and ethical change.

John Kinsella

#14. People think celebrities don't have to worry about human things like sickness and death and rent. It's like you've traveled to this Land of Celebrity, this other country.

David Duchovny

#15. It bothers him most at times like this, in the bottom of the brandy bottle and the quiet of the night.

Erin Morgenstern