Arundhati Roy Quotes

I think the kind of landscape that you grew up in, it lives with you. I don't think it's true of people who've grown up in cities so much; you may love a building, but I don't think that you can love it in the way that you love a tree or a river or the colour of the earth; it's a different kind of love.

Arundhati Roy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: indian
  • Birth: November 24, 1961

Topics

LoveTreeRiverPeopleBuildingYou

Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?

Joan Didion

DreamsWritingThoughtFindOut

Ethan Allen was convinced that every planet out there has its own intelligent extraterrestrials. And this, as you can imagine, is a radical, inspiring, but very unsettling, idea.

Matthew Stewart

YouIntelligentOutOwnPlanetIdea

I always tend to favor the newer idea.

Steven Moffat

AlwaysFavorIdeaTend

I'm not sure that it's possible to write a novel about people who don't transgress or stumble, people who don't surprise themselves with the things they do, people who can explain all their actions with perfect logical consistency. At least it's not possible for me to write that sort of novel.

Tom Perrotta

PeopleMeConsistencySurpriseWrite

Being the gateway to a large city, St. Louis, I had felt from the very beginning that somehow this building should symbolize this sense of being a gateway.

Minoru Yamasaki

BeginningCityBuildingSt. Louis

My own country, Slovakia, has been there for South Sudan and its people. We made South Sudan a priority country of our official development assistance and humanitarian aid.

Miroslav Lajcak

PeopleCountryDevelopmentMy Own

A poet should always be 'collaborating' with his public, but this public, in the mass, cannot make itself heard, and he has to guess at its requirements and its criticisms.

Louis MacNeice

AlwaysPoetCannotRequirementsHe

You can tax the rich all you want. The problem is there aren't enough of the rich.

Bob Packwood

RichProblemEnoughYouTaxWant

In Syria, a no-fly zone targeted at Assad's air force and safe zones for refugees fleeing the fighting would help tamp down the death toll that plays into the hands of ISIS and other Sunni militants who can position themselves as the only groups that are really defending the Sunni population.

Peter Bergen

DeathFightingHelpHandsDownAir

Coaches give you too much information. I've been allowed to develop that intuitive ability in my career and lifetime.

Tiffeny Milbrett

YouInformationCareerToo MuchGive

That's what I'd rather be doing more than anything. I love to play and perform and write, record, do whatever - just stay in music.

Rickey Medlocke

LoveMusicDoingPlayMoreWrite

Every child has a right to education as much as to life, and every woman the right to live.

Nita Ambani

LifeEducationLiveWomanChild

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