Suketu Mehta Maximum City Quotes

#1. All the criminals do their work on the screen, which people can see. Politicians work behind the screen, which the public can't see.1 - Gang leader Chotta Shakeel, in Suketu Mehta, Maximum City

Dinesh D'Souza

#2. Like a butcher without a knife, a knight without a sword, and a farrier without a hammer, you cannot have a town without rules; if there were a town like that, a great big anarchy would reign there, just as in the realm of animals!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#3. When you're out of office, you can be a statesman.

John Connally

#4. In the looking, I found the cities within me.

Suketu Mehta

#5. And I like asking questions, to keep learning; people with big egos might not want to look unsure.

Heston Blumenthal

#6. Man has little needs and deeper needs. We have fallen into the mistake of living from our little needs till we have almost lost our deeper needs in a sort of madness.

D.H. Lawrence

#7. Thou at the sight
Pleased, out of Heaven shalt look down and smile,
While by thee raised I ruin all my foes,
Death last, and with his carcass glut the grave.

John Milton

#8. Rumors run wild when one sacrifices for self and temporarily forsakes those who assume entitlement to one's persona.

T.F. Hodge

#9. The others don't like my interviews. And frankly, I don't care much for theirs.

Freddie Mercury

#10. Love is the scent of a sleeping back, death a slight draft of bad breath.

Richard Flanagan

#11. We're trying to be that franchise that year-in and year-out is competing for a championship.

Drew Brees

#12. I made a noise of disgust, and I think I would have stormed out if I knew how to open the door.

Ash Gray

#13. I was a groupie for a year and followed a band. I dated the drummer of the band.

Malin Akerman

#14. You got your God and so do I.

Jimi Hendrix

#15. Boo seemed to be less a ghost than he was a guardian spirit, always happy and ready to serve, still on the earth not because he had remained behind after death but because he had been sent back. Consequently, perhaps he had the power and permission to move between worlds as he wished.

Dean Koontz