Mohsin Hamid Quotes

We recognise that, with time, every human being will cease being, will only have been. And so we seek to resist time. We rebel against it. We are drawn like lovers to the unreachable past, to imagined memories, to nostalgia.

Mohsin Hamid

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MemoriesTimePastRebelNostalgia

Steakhouses sort of have this old-school nature to them; they're like museums full of good food. It's fun hearing the waiter share his expertise on the different cuts of beef and how they're going to cut up your baked potato.

Jim Gaffigan

NatureGoodFoodFunGood FoodUp

I couldn't sleep for nights on end, as my brain felt like there were thoughts colliding within it; I obsessed over small details, from saving pennies and polishing each one of them to washing my clothing over and over in the washing machine.

Andy Behrman

SleepThoughtsBrainSmallEndOver

Twitter is the ultimate service for the mobile age - its simplification and constraint of the publishing medium to 140 characters is perfectly complementary to a mobile experience.

Matt Mullenweg

AgeServiceExperienceMobile

I like The Smiths - I would love to do a song with The Smiths, because they are so sonically different.

Angel Haze

LoveSongBecauseDifferentWould

All June I bound the rose in sheaves, Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves.

Robert Browning

RoseNowJuneLeavesStripBound

Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think.

Roger Ebert

ThinkAttentionMoviesMoreI Think

I mostly eat healthy. I just do. I'm not a vegan for health reasons - although obviously I'm 20 pounds lighter than when I started. I stayed 20 pounds lighter. I feel better. My friends say I look better. All that's true. But I'm a vegan for compassionate reasons.

Russell Simmons

HealthBetterFeelFriendsLookSay

My father taught me, in boxing, that when you - particularly when you get hit in the face for the first time - you're going to panic. That instead of panicking, just accept it. Stay calm. And any time anybody hits you, they always leave themselves open to be hit.

Rudy Giuliani

FatherTimeMeCalmFaceYou

To understand someone, find out how he spends his money.

Mason Cooley

MoneySomeoneFindUnderstandOut

Whether by design or circumstance, every startup will eventually get disrupted.

Jay Samit

DesignWillGetEveryEventually

Sometimes I say to myself, what are you doing in this absurd job? Why don't you go to Africa and help people? But I cannot help people, because I am a hypochondriac.

Javier Bardem

MyselfJobI AmPeopleDoingHelp

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.

Joseph Campbell

DreamsMythsPublicPrivate

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