Mumbai Local Quotes

#1. Failure is what you may need to eventually succeed.

Jon Jones

#2. Hamlet and Victor Frankenstein are each obsessed with death. Hamlet's whole story is a philosophical preparation for death; Victor's is an intellectual refusal to accept it.

Kenneth Branagh

#3. Until someone recognizes his or her Reason Why, the problem will recur, or another will sprout up in its place.

Brownell Landrum

#4. I hardly ever think about audience. I just try to tell a story for me. I write the kind of story I would like to read.

Brent Runyon

#5. European institutions and the worldview of conquest and colonialism had formed several centuries before that. From the eleventh through the thirteenth centuries, Europeans conducted the Crusades to conquer North Africa and the Middle East, leading to unprecedented wealth in the hands of a few.

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

#6. Rohinton Mistry's celebrated novel 'Such a Long Journey' was pulled off the syllabus of Mumbai University because local extremists objected to its content.

Salman Rushdie

#7. Then we shan't regard anyone as a lover of knowledge or wisdom who is fussy about what he studies ...

Plato

#8. In the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness.

Umberto Eco

#9. After luncheon the sun, conscious that it was Saturday, would blaze an hour longer in the zenith, ...

Marcel Proust

#10. The Airlines lady who travels in the same compartment as us day after day, has bruises on her arms and face today and her eyes keep welling, but no one asks her why. Our eyes dart towards her, but we go back to travelling in too much proximity. Two inches from one another and expressionless.

Amruta Patil