Hanif Qureshi Quotes

#1. The English, by and large, being a crass and indolent race, were not as keen on burning women as other countries in Europe.

Terry Pratchett

#2. I've never seen, heard, nor smelled an issue that was so dangerous it couldn't be talked about. Hell yes, I'm for debating anything!

Stephen Hopkins

#3. within half an hour of training. Fruits

Brad Schoenfeld

#4. The people who know you well are the people who know your vulnerabilities.

Danny Wallace

#5. Anything the Austrians could do, the Prussians could do better.

Timothy C.W. Blanning

#6. No doubt we should be, on the whole, much worse off than we are without our astonishing gift for illusion.

Virginia Woolf

#7. The properties of an object are automatically exposed, whereas the variables in a closure are automatically hidden.

David Herman

#8. To give life to sculpture I found it must have a pulse, a breathing quality that could change in a flash, and it must never appear static, hard, or unrevealing. All these demands formed themslves in my thoughts, and became like an endless obsession.

Malvina Hoffman

#9. Quarkbeasts, for all their fearsome looks, are obedient to a fault. They are nine-tenths velociraptor and kitchen blender and one-tenth Labrador. It was the Labrador tenth that I valued most.

Jasper Fforde

#10. I put all of my resources into pushing the evolution in an industry that is notoriously backwards and I enjoy pushing that envelope,.

George Lucas

#11. Yes, translation is by definition an inadequate substitute for being able to read a masterpiece in the original.

Terry Teachout

#12. Ambition has developed into a passion which drives women, as well as men, to great works - and small deeds. Formerly competitors in the race for men, they are now competing in the race for social tasks and distinctions.

Ellen Key

#13. People often ask how I can reject the phrase 'woman writer' and not reject the phrase 'Jewish writer' - a preposterous question. 'Jewish' is a category of civilization, culture, and intellect, and 'woman' is a category of anatomy and physiology.

Cynthia Ozick

#14. This is what games do: they promise us that we can repair a personal inadequacy - an inadequacy that they produce in us in the first place.

Jesper Juul