Kolkata Book Fair Quotes

#1. It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.

Ayn Rand

#2. Which of my feelings are real? Which of the me's is me? The wild, impulsive, chaotic, energetic, and crazy one? Or the shy, withdrawn, desperate, suicidal, doomed, and tired one? Probably a bit of both, hopefully much that is neither.

Kay Redfield Jamison

#3. Our brains have this habit of quilting dreams from the fabrics of our lives. As a filmmaker, I get to do it for a living.

Peter Landesman

#4. The character, therefore, will depend upon the thoughts. I am what I think. I am what I think even more than what I do, for it is the thought that interprets the action. An act in itself good may become even bad by the thought that inspired it.

Basil W. Maturin

#5. What we really need is for me to get hot and stay hot. When I go, this team really takes off.

Johnny Damon

#6. To think freely--you and only you can liberate yourself from the conformity of your society.

Debasish Mridha

#7. I simply have a marvellous life, a very lucky life.

Olivia Newton-John

#8. a good recipe in the hands of a bad chef is still distasteful! A good chef must have a discriminating palate, and a good band director must have a discerning ear

Mary Ellen Cavitt

#9. Perfection is an illusion

Taylor Jade

#10. 'Interview with a Vampire' made vampires sexy.

Joseph Morgan

#11. I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was coming into my own as a reader.

Caitlin Flanagan

#12. "Croissant": However you choose to pronounce it at home, it is perhaps worth nothing that outside the United States, the closer you can come to saying "kwass-ohn," the sooner you can expect to be presented with one.

Bill Bryson

#13. And what makes humans so sure that thinking is the most important activity in the universe? ... I on the contrary have never forgotten that first I existed and then, with a lot of difficulty, I learned to think. (p. 31)

Sabina Berman