Indian Chai Quotes

#1. He was holding a tray. On the tray were two glasses of milky Indian chai. 'Chota hazari, sahib,' said Ladoo. Bed tea. 'What a nice gesture,' I said returning to Olivia. 'Mrs Puri has sent us up some tea.' 'I wish she had sent it up two hours later,' said Olivia from beneath her sheets.

William Dalrymple

#2. The whitewash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door; The chest, contriv'd a double debt to pay,- A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day.

Oliver Goldsmith

#3. The man is the head of the house but the woman is the neck that turns the head.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4. I'm a big believer in pushing things too far and forcing people to pull you back.

Warren Spector

#5. What you believe you experience.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#6. If you want to be like the greats, you learn from the greats.

Raphael Saadiq

#7. One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

Carl Sandburg

#8. I did want a boy child because I had this romantic idea that a boy child when he's 16 takes his mother out for dinner.

Jennifer Saunders

#9. The wise providence of God orders our affairs in many different ways and lovingly bestows on each one of us what is appropriate and profitable both for virtuous deeds and the mysteries of faith.

Gregory Palamas

#10. Reality ... includes a perceiver, who has memories, thoughts, desires, emotions - [which] a normal camera tends to omit.

Barbara Ess

#11. Fashions are not fashions at all but refashioning; language is not communication but reinvention. They are never in place but on display.

Dionne Brand

#12. On this International Day for the Abolition of Slavery let us reaffirm the inherent dignity of all men, women and children. And let us redouble our efforts to build societies in which slavery truly is a term for the history books.

Ban Ki-moon

#13. Conventional wisdom tells us not to dwell in the past. I believe, however, that we should hold hands with it.

Dana Glossbrenner

#14. The group was led by a very thin man whom the sheep didn't know. They looked hard at him. The leader of the flock is always important.

Leonie Swann

#15. Be what you are. Give What is yours to give. Have Style. Dare.

Stanley Kunitz

#16. For so much of my career I've been trying to find little things and make something out of it.

Jeremy Piven