V. S. Naipaul Quotes

In Trinidad, where as new arrivals we were a disadvantaged community, that excluding idea was a kind of protection; it enabled us - for the time being, and only for the time being - to live in our own way and according to our own rules, to live in our own fading India.

V. S. Naipaul

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Topics

LiveCommunityTimeRulesIndiaNew

I'm an expert typist. I learned in high school. I would close my eyes and just type without worrying about mistakes. I tried to penetrate my heart, and as I let my thoughts drift, things bubbled up to the surface.

Jimmy Carter

HeartEyesMistakesSchoolThoughts

Heels are really hard to wear. I feel bad for every girl that has to wear heels or chooses to wear heels. They're not fun.

Joe Jonas

GirlFunFeelBadHardHeels

I always think about how Chaka Khan used to take suede, all these classic fabrics, and then make them very movable. She's my everything!

Jillian Hervey

ThinkSheClassicAlwaysEverything

I love Katy Perry! She's very charming.

Joan Rivers

LoveSheCharmingVeryI LovePerry

Taste is developed by the diversity of the products one can sample. I think our children today may be missing an education about food. We must teach them to know their cuisine and to know the equilibrium of nourishment. That is very important for health.

Joel Robuchon

EducationTodayChildrenHealthFood

I still remember 2002. It's a very hard time for Hong Kong industry, no movies in Hong Kong, and also at this moment I start my new company, so many people said, 'You're crazy.'

Andrew Lau

TimeMomentPeopleCrazyStartYou

My mom, Emilie, always taught me to think hard about marriage.

Alyson Hannigan

MarriageMeMomThinkHardAlways

In every game, there's three teams out there. There's the two basketball teams and the team of officials. If the two teams are evenly matched, it can come down to number of possessions. If one out-of-bounds call goes the wrong way, that can be the difference.

Tom Heinsohn

TeamBasketballGameDownWrongWay

People live too much of their lives on email or the Internet or text messages these days. We're losing all of our communication skills.

Tracy Morgan

CommunicationLiveLosingPeople

I just like Forrest Gump. Maybe I'm a little smarter than him, maybe I'm not. Probably because of the whole Southern aspect of his character and for some reason I always wind up on the better end of all deals... I've just kind of got the old silly boy luck!

Luke Bryan

CharacterLuckWindEndBetterKind

All novelists I speak to about how they started usually say it was by pulling up their roots and going to live somewhere else. You see the shape of your life at a distance.

Deborah Moggach

LifeLiveRootsSpeakYouDistance

I spent 30 years on Alabama's death row for a crime I did not commit.

Anthony Ray Hinton

DeathCrimeYearsAlabamaCommit

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by V. S. Naipaul