Quotes About Dunia

#1. In the grave I can tell you the truth. I am your own Dunia, but I am also a princess of the jinnias or jiniri. The slits in the world are reopening, so I can come back to see you

Salman Rushdie

#2. So he was a sort of anti-Scheherazade, Dunia told him, the exact opposite of the storyteller of The Thousand Nights and One Night: her stories saved her life, while his put his life in danger.

Salman Rushdie

#3. It has been said that England invented the phrase, 'Her Majesty's Opposition'; that it was the first government which made a criticism of administration as much a part of the polity as administration itself. This critical opposition is the consequence of cabinet government.

Walter Bagehot

#4. Norman Bates heard the noise and a shock went through him.

Robert Bloch

#5. The world wants to define me by my mammary glands and melanin. It is just fascinating that Michael Mann has never been asked what it is like to be a white male filmmaker.

Victoria Mahoney

#6. 15 or 20 years ago it would not have been possible for me to come out. Back then, people still had such narrow views, but today many of them are more liberal. Being gay is no longer a taboo in many parts of society. That has affected sports, even boxing.

Orlando Cruz

#7. With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn't know that then.

Ken Follett

#8. I have no plans to rock myself to sleep in my bath chair yet.

Bruce Forsyth

#9. A book with the genuine power to stir and comfort its readers.

Mitch Albom

#10. Continue to be bold, courageous. Try to chose the wisest thing and once you've chosen the wisest thing go out and try to achieve it. Be it.

Maya Angelou

#11. I took a couple of creative writing classes with Joyce Carol Oates at Princeton University, and in my senior year there, I took a long fiction workshop with Toni Morrison. I fell in love with it.

Mohsin Hamid

#12. I feel like the movie is reminding people of who they are, which is what I think all great art does.

Brie Larson

#13. When I was young, my father was lord Of a small kingdom: a wife, a garden, Kids for whom his word was Word. It took years for my view to harden, To shrink him to human size.

Tracy K. Smith

#14. all have a notion of what it means to be good, and we can't live up to it all the time.

Paul Kalanithi

#15. Be nice to the environment. Be nice to animals. Be nice to people. If you do that, you will leave a mark on the world.

Enock Maregesi

#16. My philosophy is to not be scared of anyone. If I play well, great; if I don't, I learn from the match and move on.

Saina Nehwal