Vijay Prashad Quotes

#1. Making books has always felt very connected to my bookselling experience, that of wanting to draw people's attention to things that I liked, to shape things that I liked into new shapes.

Jonathan Lethem

#2. To set and work toward any goal is an act of courage.

Stephen Covey

#3. Come, then," returned the nephew gaily. "What right have you to be dismal? What reason have you to be morose? You're rich enough.

Charles Dickens

#4. In good writing, the contemplative and the exciting happen at the same time.

Dave Morris

#5. He wanted to believe that his own lack of movement had stopped all movement in the world, the way a hibernating frog abolishes winter.

Kobo Abe

#6. For privileged people, equality in an unequal world is a bonanza.

Vijay Prashad

#7. Like certain faces among the people I see on the street every day, certain words, for some reason, stand out, and leave an impression on me. Others remain in the background, negligible. After

Jhumpa Lahiri

#8. That's the kind of motif I bring to the books - that people take charge of their own lives.

Maeve Binchy

#9. If politics and business fail us, of course the military will be called in. In the developing world, the massive and repeated ecological disasters are quite commonly met by the military.

Bruce Sterling

#10. You were patient all this time. I had to find myself first; I had to remember who I was and become the person I was meant to be. You have been there for me patiently while I searched for you, even when I didn't know I was looking for you, you were there.

Rachel Higginson

#11. It is not possible to be 'incidentally a Christian.' The fact of Christianity must be overwhelmingly first or nothing. This suggests a reason for the dislike of Christians by nominal or non-Christians: their lives contain no overwhelming first but many balances.

Sheldon Vanauken

#12. The best intentions (of respect and tolerance) can often be annoying to those whose cultures are not in dominance: we feel that we are often zoological specimens.

Vijay Prashad

#13. The truthfulness of materials of constructions, concrete, bricks and stone, shall be maintained in all buildings constructed or to be constructed.The seed of Chandigarh is well sown. It is for the citizens to see that the tree flourishes.

Le Corbusier

#14. The dominant classes in the South might divert the funds towards the creation of an America instead, with vastly well-off sector living in protected zones, separated from rest of the population by well crafted cordons sanitaires.

Vijay Prashad

#15. A folktale without a moral is merely a whimsy.

Stephen Sondheim

#16. More than a process, painting is being possessed ...

Philip Guston

#17. There were some entrepreneurial du Ponts that are a little different from the heads of the corporations today.

Pete Du Pont