Nissim Ezekiel Quotes

#1. In my soul, I am still that small child who did not care about anything else but the beautiful colours of a rainbow.

Papiya Ghosh

#2. My younger sister had kids before I did, and managed to earn a master's degree while raising them as a single parent. Now she's a brilliant second-grade teacher. I'm in awe of her ability to juggle everything and still be a great mother.

Idina Menzel

#3. My mother only said: Thank God the scorpion picked on me and spared my children.

Nissim Ezekiel

#4. In all of the history of professional sports, the Cubs are the ultimate symbol of complete failure.

John Scalzi

#5. If telecom are seen as a rightful infrastructure for the growth of many other sectors in the economy and the multiplier force, then I think it doesn't deserve to be taxed so high.

Sunil Mittal

#6. The saint, we are told,
once lived a life of sin -
nothing spectacular, of course,
just the usual things.

Nissim Ezekiel

#7. It was a heavy piece, about thirty inches in height, carved of stone. And so ugly that it defied description. Surely only a blind person could have carved it.
Maybe carving it was what made the person blind.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#8. Now I'm living out my life in a corner, trying to console myself with the stupid, useless excuse that an intelligent man cannot turn himself into anything, that only a fool can make anything he wants out of himself.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#9. A flame burned in him, a faith that a comprehending Power existed, animating all this that it had created, and sustaining it with a love beyond anything that he, Reuben, could imagine.

Anne Rice

#10. The short story feels like the most natural length for prose fiction, or certainly for the kind of ideas and situations I like to encounter.

Nicholas Royle

#11. A lie is a very short wick in a very small lamp. The oil of reputation is very soon sucked up and gone. And just as soon as a man is known to lie, he is like a two-foot pump in a hundred-foot well. He cannot touch bottom at all.

Henry Ward Beecher

#12. The Socialists can scheme their schemes and the Liberals can dream their dreams, but we, at least, have work to do.

Hugh MacLennan

#13. I got some bad ideas in my head.

Robert De Niro

#14. What you have to remember is that the great feelings come after the terrible ones.

Anjelica Huston

#15. The green is so narrow that if you over-club, you've got an impossible bunker shot. If you're short, you're pretty much dead.

Vijay Singh