Jalis Quotes

#1. In my Indian bedroom, the carved, cut-out marble jalis, or screens, which were formerly used by Indian princes to keep their wives from other eyes, have a new purpose: they are not only decorations, but a means of security, for they can be locked without shutting off the air.

Doris Duke

#2. A European who goes to New York and Chicago sees the future ... when he goes to Asia he sees the past.

Bertrand Russell

#3. N]either antiquity nor any other nation has imagined a more atrocious and blasphemous absurdity than that of eating God. This is how Christians treat the autocrat of the universe.

Frederick The Great

#4. Fuck the weather forecasters and their predictions. With magic, he'd just turned their Doppler radar upside down.
Sapphire Phelan (Being Familiar With a Witch)

Sapphire Phelan

#5. Pull the good out of it and not worry about the drawbacks.

Chris Squire

#6. The fatted calf, the best Scotch, the hoedown could all have been his too, any time he asked for them except that he never thought to ask for them because he was too busy trying cheerlessly and religiously to earn them.

Frederick Buechner

#7. I have no control over a film. I don't know what will be left on the cutting floor.

Judi Dench

#8. Fierce Determination and Gentle Humility are the ornaments which make one attractive in the eyes of the Lord.

Radhanath Swami

#9. Josh [Gad] does such an amazing job playing a lovable idiot. Not many people can do that, as convincingly as he can.

Josh Gad

#10. So we do software for watches, for phones, for TV sets, for cars. And some of these take a long time to catch on.

Bill Gates

#11. If it be the chief point of friendship to comply with a friend's notions and inclinations he possesses this is an eminent degree; he lies down when I sit, and walks when I walk, which is more that many good friends can pretend to do.

Alexander Pope

#12. Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.

Mel Brooks