Welcome To Karachi Quotes

#1. Peleus lived to a good age and survived his famous son Achilles, an initiate of the Centaur Horse fraternity, who was killed at the siege of Troy.

Robert Graves

#2. That was the strange problem with writing, you had discovered. Meaning never matched the words and words always evaded the thought.

Bilal Tanweer

#3. Coming back to Karachi is like stepping into the sea again after months on land. How easily you float, how peaceful is the sense of being borne along, and how familiar the sound of the water lapping against your limbs.

Kamila Shamsie

#4. people who ran away are friends!

Bilal Tanweer

#5. a city is all about how you look at it

Bilal Tanweer

#6. How do you eat your roots?

Kamila Shamsie

#7. So when I was 13, I basically left home and never returned and lived at home again. I would come home for a week at Christmas and two weeks in the summer only.

Peter Jurasik

#8. KARACHI: The Karachi traffic police will be distributing free helmets for women as part of their 'Friends of Traffic' campaign, which hits the roads on June 8.

Anonymous

#9. My dear, you are not one person. You have many people in you, and each one can ask only some kinds of questions.

Bilal Tanweer

#10. What appears strange and complex becomes stranger and more complicated once you begin to investigate it. That's the true nature of the world.

Bilal Tanweer

#11. The day I won an Emmy was also the day my father passed away. I received a call from my sister on the way to the ceremony and had to turn my car around and catch the first flight back to Karachi.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#12. Less than a year after the Sept. 11 attacks, al-Qaida attacks were continuing: the firebombing of a synagogue in Tunisia in April, a bomb outside the U.S. Consulate in Karachi in June.

Bill Dedman

#13. Bijli fails in the dead of night / Won't help to call "I need a light" / You're in Karachi now / Oh, oh you're in Karachi now. / Night is falling and you just cant see / Is this illusion or KESC / You're in Karachi now

Kamila Shamsie

#14. All around us, Karachi kept moving

Kamila Shamsie

#15. If we had more reliable systems of law and governance perhaps our friendship would be shallower.

Kamila Shamsie

#16. To do it nationally or internationally, you have to follow a few more rules.

Kristin Hersh

#17. The reason for a Lahore-based cricketer being treated with a degree of animosity by the Karachi lobby (or vice versa a Karachi cricketer being treated similarly by the Lahore lobby) needs to be set in a wider context of historical regional and provincial tensions. Rivalries

Shaharyar M. Khan

#18. Constantine cursed the faujis again, and then he cursed Tom Cruise for having made that bloody Top Gun movie. Since then, an entire generation of faujis had grown up thinking they could be like him just by buying those cheap rip-off sunglasses for 200 rupees from Zainab Market.

Omar Shahid Hamid

#19. If you're done playing with will-o'-the-wisps and kelpies, I think we should continue. Oh, but do tell me the next time you want to have tea with an ogre. I'll be sure to bring my club.
-Puck

Julie Kagawa

#20. Things taste sweeter when you have some hunger left to linger. You feel it hunting your head for buried things; digging into the fractures of your breath warm and greedy.

Bilal Tanweer

#21. There are a number of parallels between the slums of Brazil and those found in my hometown, Karachi. The dichotomy that exists in Brazil is uncannily similar to that found in Pakistan, and I hope to one day make a film that follows similar themes.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#22. for the first time I am confronted with the fact that places and people are like things: both made of memories and meaningful to us in the same way: we construct ourselves in our conversations with them.

Bilal Tanweer

#23. We must learn to see it in many ways, so that when one of the ways of looking hurts us, we can take refuge in another way of looking. You must always love the city.

Bilal Tanweer

#24. I saw an advertisement to work for a Swedish institute in Karachi in Pakistan. I had just been offered a permanent assignment, teaching in Oulu. But I felt, 'My God, I am not going to stay here forever.' You know why? Because I was following international events.

Martti Ahtisaari

#25. You're not a star until they can spell your name in Karachi.

Humphrey Bogart

#26. Ever seen a bullet-smashed windscreen?
The hole at the center becomes an eye. You see less through it but you gain focus, sharpness. That's how it is -- our wounds become our eyes. Seeing outside becomes seeing inside.
Listen.

Bilal Tanweer

#27. I do not drink from this jug every day. But sometimes at night when the wind blows and I am alone and feeling very solitary, it is my only friend and comfort. Right, Pancho?

Rick Skwiot

#28. I'm not in the right place - alas, I cannot rid myself of the feeling that I'm not in the right place.

Franz Kafka

#29. I decapitated with my blessed right hand the head of American Jew, Daniel Pearl, in the city of Karachi, Pakistan. For those who would like to confirm, there are pictures of me on the Internet holding his head.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed