Quotes About Shantaram

#1. 'Shantaram' is the second in the series of a quartet of novels that I have planned about my life but is the first to be written. The third book is a sequel to 'Shantaram,' the first a prequel.

Gregory David Roberts

#2. The truth is that the man I am was born in those moments, as I stood near the flood sticks with my face lifted to the chrismal rain. Shantaram. The better man that, slowly, and much too late, I began to be.

Gregory David Roberts

#3. 'Shantaram' is fantastic. An Australian prisoner escapes & joins the mafia in India? Sign me up. I love stuff that is based on true stories.

Hasan Minhaj

#4. There's no believing in God ... We either know God, or we don't.

Gregory David Roberts

#5. I don't know what frightens me more

Gregory David Roberts

#6. I think that we all, each one of us, we all have to earn our future.

Gregory David Roberts

#7. Chant to him: "An individual thinks for himself." Then roll that around in his head till it means: "If I didn't think of it, it has no bearing on my life.

Geoffrey Wood

#8. Or maybe I was learning that nothing was black and white.

Kresley Cole

#9. Food is music to the body, music is food to the heart.

Gregory David Roberts

#10. He'd never thought of beauty as a form of power, but that's the way Piper had seemed - powerful.

Rick Riordan

#11. Luck is what happens to you when fate gets tired of waiting

Gregory David Roberts

#12. Hate has no literature: real fear and real hate have no words

Gregory David Roberts

#13. Every virtuous act has some Dark secret in its heart; every risk we take contains a mystery that can't be solved.

Gregory David Roberts

#14. One of the ironies of courage, and the reason why we prize it so highly, is that we find it easier to be brave for someone else than we do for ourselves alone.

Gregory David Roberts

#15. Heaped up on the blankets, our bodies bound by weariness and her deep slumber, surrounded by sickness and hope, death and defiance, I touched the soft surrendered curl of Karla's sleeping fingers to my lips, and I pledged my heart to her forever.

Gregory David Roberts

#16. Funny is not a color. Being black is only good from the time you get from the curtain to the microphone.

Flip Wilson

#17. Warm honey, a shot of raw whiskey, and a little hot puff of smoke wafted from his mouth like a fine and rare brandy being decanted. -- Chloe San Valentine from 3 WISHES

Peggy Jaeger

#18. Profit is like oxygen, food, water, and blood for the body; they are not the point of life, but without them, there is no life.

James C. Collins

#19. No body wishes more than I do to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our black brethren, talents equal to those of the other colors of men, and that the appearance of a want of them is owing merely to the degraded condition of their existence, both in Africa & America.

Thomas Jefferson

#20. There are no mistakes. Only new paths to explore.

Gregory David Roberts

#21. The choice you make between hating and forgiving can be the story of your life

Shantaram

#22. Go Hard or Go Home, but never go home hard!

Mark McKinnon

#23. You long for a windfall that will let you quit and pursue your great hobby

Walter Kirn

#24. I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news shows on TV and felt strongly about issues of power, control, sexuality and race.

Barbara Kruger

#25. Like most things, and most people, it's not as bad as it looks from the outside.

Gregory David Roberts

#26. Some of the worst wrongs, were caused by people who tried to change things.

Gregory David Roberts

#27. All of us were stuck to the surface of a ball, incidentally.

Kurt Vonnegut

#28. We have a lion, tiger, liger, which is the father is a lion and the mother is a tiger, black and spotted leopard, mountain lion, Asian leopard cats. Weve got a tremendous number of the exotic feline.

Tippi Hedren