Maximum City Quotes

#1. Above all, Danny Boyle's 'Slumdog Millionaire' is the work of an artist at the peak of his powers. India is his palette, and Mumbai - that teeming 'maximum city', with 19 million strivers on the make, jostling, scheming, struggling and killing for success - is his brush.

Shashi Tharoor

#2. All the criminals do their work on the screen, which people can see. Politicians work behind the screen, which the public can't see.1 - Gang leader Chotta Shakeel, in Suketu Mehta, Maximum City

Dinesh D'Souza

#3. The future is flying home. That's the immediate future. But long-distance future, I plan on being back. I'm not going to end my time here with that loss.

Pete Sampras

#4. If quitting smoking seems hard right now, it is exactly what you should start doing

Eleanor Roosevelt

#5. As the class went through the Greeks and the Romans and the Renaissance painters, (who were easy enough to remember if you'd ever seen Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) there was more dick on display than in a locker room.

K.A. Mitchell

#6. Welsh women aren't the most tactile unless they're your relatives. And then you don't want them to be.

Rhys Ifans

#7. The term 'Pre-Raphaelite' is in danger of becoming one of the most misused tags in art history

Christopher Wood

#8. What you see in other people is a reflection of yourself. A person of goodness sees goodness in others and a person of evil sees evil in others.

Omar Suleiman

#9. Only when you can accept that you are alone, will you discover that you are not alone.

Leonard Jacobson

#10. Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.

Jean Cocteau

#11. I was lifted from the darkness I endured into the person I am today.

Stephen Richards

#12. If people tell you what you really don't want to hear what's unpleasant-there's an almost automatic reaction of antipathy. You have to train yourself out of it.

Charlie Munger

#13. It is impossible to make peace with the Roman Catholic Church. It is one of the permanent enemies of all that is decent in human spirit.

Harold J. Laski

#14. A city is a place that can offer maximum freedom. Otherwise it's incomplete.

Ai Weiwei

#15. Work as if everything depended upon work and pray as if everything depended upon prayer.

William Booth

#16. Of her own experience she had no memory of the thing happening; but in her instinct, which was the experience of all mothers of wolves, there lurked a memory of fathers that had eaten their new-born and helpless progeny.

Jack London

#17. I think music gives so much inspiration. I listen to all kinds of music: pop, hip-hop, everything. I also love classical music.

Nicki Minaj

#18. In the looking, I found the cities within me.

Suketu Mehta

#19. This is not the time for lying down at ease, it is the season of service and warfare.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon