Tabish Khair Quotes

#1. In auditions, you're not up against anyone else; you're both going in for the role, and it's like, whoever's right for it will get it. It's simple. It's not like, 'Oh I won!' There's never that element. It is very supportive.

Matthew James Thomas

#2. Thus rhetoric, it seems, is a producer of persuasion for belief, not for instruction in the matter of right and wrong ... And so the rhetorician's business is not to instruct a law court or a public meeting in matters of right and wrong, but only to make them believe.

Plato

#3. These days, I'm finding it harder and harder to breathe. My chest pounds with every heart beat like you're here, again, standing in front of me, your two hands around my neck.

Karen Quan

#4. [ ... ] sometimes you gotta let someone else help you be strong before you can stand on your own.

Laura Kaye

#5. There is always a chance to get even and I'm proud of the fact that for all the blows I always got back up again. That's what makes me most content.

Luis Suarez

#6. Matthias, anything that surprises you about yourself?
Blake: You mean other than he hasn't dumped Aurora's body in the lake yet?
Matthias: Don't be stupid. There'd be no body to find.

A&E Kirk

#7. Act as if the future of the universe depends on what you do, while laughing at yourself for thinking that your actions make any difference.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#8. Being in the hearing world was more of a challenge than being in the Deaf world, because I had to learn how to write and communicate in a way that I hadn't experienced growing up.

Jack Jason

#9. God wants every member of the Body of Christ to be a blessing one to another; that's why, everyone has to be involved in a ministry.

Sunday Adelaja

#10. Luckily, I'm not one of those people who wants to be young; it's never bothered me.

Boy George

#11. Reason is not a tyrannical God like Allah, or a bloodthirsty demon like Bhowanee; Reason does not speak in my ears but gives me ears to listen with.

Tabish Khair

#12. When you choose a language, you're choosing more than a set of technical trade-offs-you're choosing a community.

Joshua Bloch

#13. Even if you apply any kind of lotion and straighten your hair you will never be white.

Jacob Zuma

#14. A lot of those little things that I really like doing are just moments of cool articulation, just little moments of phrasing that probably go over everybody's head.

Steve Vai

#15. Have you ever seen a one trick pony in the field so happy and free? If you've ever seen a one trick pony then you've seen me Have you ever seen a one-legged dog making his way down the street? If you've ever seen a one-legged dog then you've seen me.

Bruce Springsteen