Jeet Thayil Quotes

#1. You've got to face facts and the fact is life is a joke, a fucking bad joke, or, no, a bad fucking joke. There's no point taking it seriously because whatever happens, and I mean whatever the fuck, the punch line is the same: you go out horizontally. You see the point? No fucking point.

Jeet Thayil

#2. Come on, a 25-page digression on god? You can't have that kind of thing, cut it out!

Jeet Thayil

#3. He talks in proverbs. There's nothing I can say in reply.

Jeet Thayil

#4. Beauty is really all about confidence. If you feel beautiful, then you are beautiful.

Sofia Vergara

#5. I found Bombay and opium, the drug and the city, the city of opium and the drug Bombay

Jeet Thayil

#6. He read because it gave him instant gratification in a way nothing else did,and as was the case with all addicts,gratification was the important thing.

Jeet Thayil

#7. I look at old performance videos now, and it's really funny - I thought I was such a gangster!

Becky G

#8. Women are more evolved biologically and emotionally, that's well known
and it's obvious. But they confuse sex and the spirit; they don't
separate. Men, as you know, always separate: they separate
their human and dog natures.

Jeet Thayil

#9. All I did was write it down, one word after the other, beginning and ending with the same one, Bombay.

Jeet Thayil

#10. How will the ships navigate
without stars? And then he remembered that the stars were
dead, long dead, and the light they shed was not to be trusted,
was false, if not an outright lie, and in any case was inadequate,
unequal to its task, which was to illuminate the evil that men did.

Jeet Thayil

#11. I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry.

Manuel Puig

#12. When you are around something every day you stop seeing it.

Kate Kerrigan

#13. The world is on fire; time is a bomb.
Ten thousand years are not enough
When so much remains to be done

Jeet Thayil

#14. The greatest thing about where my life is right now is it's very relaxed and chill. I'm just hanging out, being myself and doing my work.

Lucas Grabeel

#15. My religion is no way of knowing me.

Jeet Thayil

#16. When you are an artist, you want your audience to think it's effortless and easy.

Charles Fleischer

#17. I was a hardworking junkie. Heroin doesn't affect your brain. It doesn't touch your thinking. It's purely physical.

Jeet Thayil

#18. We're waiting for a glance or a word, some acknowledgement that we are here.

Jeet Thayil

#19. He might scream, but I didn't think he would hum. Four

Stephen King

#20. Parties bring my misantrophy into focus.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#21. Each one of us had a little story to tell and each recording was based on that. Lou played all of the music but we both sort of kicked around some cords during the writing phase.

Phil Harris

#22. Perhaps because alchemy combines the ancient, Gnostic focus on the immaterial and transcendent soul, or spark, with the modern, scientific-like focus on the transformation of worldly matter, it serves to connect the two. Despite his professed closer kinship to alchemy,

C. G. Jung

#23. Because now there's time enough not to hurry, to light the lamp and open the window to the moon and take a moment to dream of a great and broken city, because when the day starts its business I'll have to stop, these are night-time tales that vanish in the sunlight like vampire dust

Jeet Thayil

#24. If we are deprived of our just due, we naturally experience emotions of anger.

Smiley Blanton

#25. I've found that there isn't any correlation whatsoever between the hours put in and the quality of what comes out. Most of the Beatles' songs probably originated in about five minutes.

Tom Hodgkinson