Modernising Quotes

#1. Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.

Pankaj Mishra

#2. I've seen people who come to work say, 'No, I'm doing it this way, and that's that.' I'm the opposite - I like being out of my element; it's where I like to live.

Bill Hader

#3. You can only learn so much from books. You can only learn so much from education. Ultimately, it is the wisdom of God that will carry you through in the toughest situations of life.

Ravi Zacharias

#4. I liked long skirts," he said nostalgically. "I liked the underthings women wore. The petticoats.

Charlaine Harris

#5. The fool is like those people who think themselves rich with little.

Luc De Clapiers

#6. These jeans looked so good on me when I looked in the mirror I wanted to fuck myself.

Pete Wentz

#7. Our heads could do with filling With some interesting stuff, For now they're bare and full of air, Dead flies and bits of fluff,

J.K. Rowling

#8. One thing was for sure: no one wanted a repeat of Christopher Barker's Bible of 1631, which omitted the negative from the seventh commandment so that it read, 'Thou shalt commit adultery.

Simon Garfield

#9. If I'd done a quarter of the things of which I'm accused, I'd be pickled in alcohol, I'd be a registered drug addict and would have sired half the children in the world's cricket-playing countries

Ian Botham

#10. Joan was the beaming double of my old best self, specially designed to follow
and torment me.

Sylvia Plath

#11. To be boomerous is to stay engaged and be a powerful force in life.

R. Trent Thompson

#12. I just wondered if you always carry a miniature tool kit when you take a woman out to dinner."

"Always. I'm an engineer.

Jayne Castle

#13. In laughter all that is evil comes together, but is pronounced holy and absolved by its own bliss.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#14. The people of one nation alone cannot save their own children; each holds the responsibility for the others' children.

Margaret Mead

#15. Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge