Pakistani Novel Quotes

#1. What greater prestige can a man like me (not too gifted, but very understanding) have than to have taken a cheap, shoddy and utterly lost kind of writing, and have made of it something that intellectuals claw each other about?

Raymond Chandler

#2. When death becomes an escape, when it becomes attractive, the purpose of life is fulfilled. To teach one it's futility, it's worthlessness, that is the purpose of life. Incongruously, its value lies in having imparted that lesson.
Bhanggi

Faiqa Mansab

#3. May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.

Trenton Lee Stewart

#4. If you never go to the front row you will never get a front row spot.

Jim Hodge

#5. Focus your intention on what your building, not whats already fallen away.

Nikki Rowe

#6. The key, I think, from a business point of view, is to learn how to be efficient in making a record that's not too expensive, so that you're not going crazy spending tons of money making a product that might not ever return that money.

John Oates

#7. Are you telling me Kara Orris is afraid of rain?" Hunter's grin twisted into a smirk as his eyes lit up, relishing his new discovery with absolute delight. "Why, that's adorable!

Katherine McIntyre

#8. If you have this extraordinary thing going in your life, then it is everything; then you become the teacher, the disciple, the neighbour, the beauty of the cloud - you are all that, and that is love.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#9. To grasp and hold a vision, that is the very essence of successful leadership-not only on the movie set where I learned it, but everywhere.

Ronald Reagan

#10. People often ask me if I am the book's Pakistani protagonist. I wonder why they never ask if I am his American listener. After all, a novel can often be a divided man's conversation with himself.

Mohsin Hamid

#11. Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight.

Roy Orbison

#12. Good humour was miles behind a second cup of morning tea. It was too early for nonsense.

Zeenat Mahal

#13. Politics and Sport were invented to give unknowledgeable people an opportunity to share their knowledge.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#14. I was a drinker, so I went through the scotches. Before single malts hit, there were really cheap scotches, because nobody was paying attention to them. Then by the time they started jacking those prices up, I moved on to vodka.

Lewis Black

#15. The part of you that's like Gob is the part that makes a choice. That says, I choose to. or, I choose not to. That's what's sacred.

Dr. Willie Parker

#16. I donate lots to charity. I don't necessarily tell everybody the number or what I do.

Lindsay Davenport