Arundhati Roy Quotes

For many people, the family is portrayed as the settled place of reasonable safety, but as anyone who has read 'The God of Small Things' would know, for me it was a dangerous place. I felt humiliated in that space. I wanted to get away as soon as I could.

Arundhati Roy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

FamilyGodSmall ThingsSpaceSafety

Faith is not contrary to the usual ideas, something that turns out to be right or wrong, like a gambler's bet.

Joanna Russ

FaithIdeasWrongRightOutLike

Don't make things too complicated. Try to relax, enjoy every moment, get used to everything.

Angelique Kerber

MomentRelaxEnjoyComplicatedTry

I'm the man who sits behind a table and tells true stories from his life. I'm also an actor. I was trained as an actor at Emerson College, and I use that training to play myself.

Spalding Gray

LifeMyselfManTrainingCollege

I dreamed of being a professional skater once. I wanted to be a Korean Olympic skater, but I wasn't good enough, so I quit.

Song Joong-ki

GoodEnoughProfessionalQuitBeing

On the morning of September 11th, I was literally about 18 blocks from the World Trade Center. I witnessed in person what a lot of people witnessed in person, but what the world really saw on the television screen, I saw it with my own eyes that morning.

Steve Tisch

MorningEyesPeopleWorldTelevision

Once you start to provide public services that have to be run under public rules, for example child protection, then it has to go with public law. Institutions have to make a decision whether they want to do that or they don't want to do that.

Trevor Phillips

DecisionChildLawStartYouRules

I have never experienced another human being. I have experienced my impressions of them.

Robert Anton Wilson

NeverHumanHuman BeingBeingThem

The line that describes the beautiful is elliptical. It has simplicity and constant change. It cannot be described by a compass, and it changes direction at every one of its points.

Rudolf Arnheim

ChangeBeautifulSimplicityDirection

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

WorkGodI AmYouKnowWhy

If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's going to happen anyhow.

Mitch Albom

Getting OlderUnhappyYouAlways

When you are working on a script, the story itself is not difficult. You say this would happen and then this, resulting perhaps in this. And the dialogue you make as true as you can.

Louis Malle

StoryYouSayTrueDifficultHappen

I recorded 80 per cent of the record in my guest bedroom; then, when 'Shine' went to number one on one of the charts, the label called and said, 'Can you do an EP?' Then, 'Can you do a full length? And can you do it in two weeks?'

Joshua Ostrander

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