Quotes About Mahasweta Devi

#1. There are sixteen cans of coffee here; together they hold a total of thirteen and a half pounds of coffee. Doesn't that seem like cheating?

Andy Rooney

#2. Brave sheep are better than cowardly wolves.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#3. The neo-hippie-dips, the sentimentality-crazed iguana anthropomorphizers, the Chicken Littles, the three-bong-hit William Blakes- thank God these people don't actually go outdoors much, or the environment would be even worse than it is already.

P. J. O'Rourke

#4. Let go of what was and embrace what to be.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. his recreational passion at Sagamore Hill that summer of 1903 was the so-called point-to-point "obstacle walk," the one rule, the only rule, being that the participant must go up and over, or through, every obstacle, never around it.

David McCullough

#6. Nothing is impossible. In fact, the word it's self says, 'I'm Possible!

Audrey Hepburn

#7. He crashed a dozen Cadillacs in one year and played the Apollo. With racial hatred burning in the headlines, the audience danced in the seats to a white boy from the bottomland, backed by pickers who talked like Ernest Tubb. "James Brown kissed me on my cheek," he says. "Top that.

Rick Bragg

#8. You can't change the world; you can't fix the whole environment. But you can recycle. You can turn the water off when you're brushing your teeth. You can do small things.

Patti Smith

#9. You will never find the perfect person but you might be lucky enough to find someone who wants to be.

J.S.B. Morse

#10. Maybe it's sex appeal, but there's something about an airplane that drives investors crazy.

Alfred Kahn

#11. That held for a few minutes, until the head of Budget pointed out that SA was not much better than SS.

Stieg Larsson

#12. Forcing companies to recruit away from the golf course might lead to the appointment of more women from NGOs and academia and medicine, all of whom are likely to understand such concepts as stewardship and sustainability much better than men picked from the usual hunting grounds.

Noreena Hertz

#13. For me style has something to do with your inner attitude towards clothes and the awareness what sits well on yourself.

Matthew Williamson

#14. Once you give an NFL player permission to have thoughts, you invite all kinds of mischief.

Matt Taibbi