Kiran Desai Famous Quotes

#1. He [the poet] brings out the inner part of things and presents them to men in such a way that they cannot refuse but must accept it. But how the mere choice and rhythm of words should produce so magical an effect no one has yet been able to comprehend, and least of all the poets themselves.

Hilaire Belloc

#2. Love potions? For Will Herondale? T'aint my way to turn down payment, but any man who looks like you has got no need of love potions, and that's a fact.

Cassandra Clare

#3. Smile / to see the lake / lay / the still sky / And / out for an easy / make / the dragonfly.

Lorine Niedecker

#4. Wow, a trifecta: Murder, Madness and Magic, the three things you hate most of anything in the world.

Chris Dee

#5. Autonomy isn't the opposite of accountability - it's the pathway to it.

Daniel H. Pink

#6. I feel I've done some things in life too late and others too early

Amanda Foreman

#7. Every encounter you have is a Divine encounter ordained by God.

Jonah Books

#8. The more I see you," he said quietly, "the more I want you.

Lynn Kurland

#9. Jazz is the folk music of the machine age.

Paul Whiteman

#10. In Durban, where I was born and grew up, and all over Africa, Nelson Mandela was a hero! Now he is a hero to the world.

Kumi Naidoo