Family Matters Rohinton Mistry Quotes

#1. So much of creativity is the feeling that you're either getting a gift from some other dimension or some other part of yourself.

John Hodgman

#2. As brain functioning becomes more and more integrated, consciousness - the mind - becomes more and more invincible, and then any dictate of the mind is immediately followed by the body.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#3. In America, it's quite admirable if someone's done well or been successful at whatever it is. Whereas in Britain, they're not. They only like it when you're the underdog.

Aphex Twin

#4. Professors go batty too, perhaps more often than other people, although owing to their profession, their madness is less often remarked.

Michael Gruber

#5. Every other country where there's absolute chaos now, what is it? They're pluralistic without consensus. Look at almost every single country, from Syria, to Iraq, to Iran, Ukraine, no matter where it is. I just think it is totally counter to our tradition.

Joe Biden

#6. The busy snoops like us can leave no stone unturned, Alma said.

Ed Lynskey

#7. Simonides of Amorgos says, "Women are the greatest evil God ever created: if they sometimes seem useful, they soon change into trouble for their masters." For Hipponax: "There are but two days in life when your wife brings you joy: her wedding day and her funeral.

Simone De Beauvoir

#8. Muttering, "Fuck it," he threw his finger away. It hit the wall. He heard the quiet thunk through the sounds of helicopters. Must

Richard Laymon

#9. I was raised with the idea of beauty in a different way. To me, it is something that really comes out of you and surrounds you.

Marion Cotillard

#10. Laughter, like love, has power to survive the worst things life has to offer. And to do it with style.

Jim Butcher

#11. O why was I born with a different face? Why was I not born like the rest of my race?

William Blake

#12. It's perfectly understandable, in my opinion, to find good things in the teachings of Jesus Christ or any other figure, mythical or otherwise. But to base your life on the teachings of Jesus as they are portrayed in the Bible and claim that you are not religious is disingenuous.

David G. McAfee

#13. I also had a stuttering problem. In a Mexican home they don't give you speech therapy; they don't even know what speech therapy is. They just get the belt. If there's a parrot in the house, you better talk better than the parrot.

Felipe Esparza

#14. Discouragements, then, must come from ourselves and Satan, who laboureth to fasten on us a loathing of duty.

Richard Sibbes