Fasting Feasting Anita Desai Quotes

#1. Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.

James Agate

#2. In regard to man's final end, all the higher religions are in complete agreement. The purpose of human life is the discovery of Truth, the unitive knowledge of the Godhead.

Aldous Huxley

#3. All these activities are forms of adult play that also serve as ceremonial acts of remembering - who we are, where we came from, how nature works.

Michael Pollan

#4. I was a very naive young man, and I may still be ignorant about a lot of things.

Joe Namath

#5. Well it took many years. I started with many ideas, threw them away, started all over again. And eventually it evolved into what you see today at Disneyland

Walt Disney

#6. Oh, no! Hollypaw thought. You might be fed up with him, but we don't want him either, thanks.

Erin Hunter

#7. When I wrote the first [Bond novel] in 1953, I wanted Bond to be an extremely dull, uninteresting man to whom things happened ... when I was casting around for a name for my protagonist I thought by God, [James Bond] is the dullest name I ever heard.

Ian Fleming

#8. The hero pays the price.

Lev Grossman

#9. Either we have the government forcing us and telling us what we have to do, where we have to do it and how much we have to pay for it or we put ourselves in charge - we as consumers, as patients.

Paul Ryan

#10. If you can make the song a soundtrack to what you're living at the time, I think that's the most important part of a song.

Nate Ruess

#11. Dallas, Lieutenant Eve, and aide, Peabody,

J.D. Robb

#12. Egypt under Hosni Mubarak had deteriorated to the status of a failed state. We must wipe the slate clean and start again.

Mohamed ElBaradei

#13. My autobiography is a digressive illustration and exemplification of what race has meant in the world in the 19th and 20th centuries.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#14. Oh death, death, why do you never come to me thus summoned always day by day?

Sophocles

#15. The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.

Joseph Heller