Upamanyu Chatterjee Quotes

Well, life is dark, isn't it? Mostly, it's dreadful. At the same time, death is funny too. I mean, look at the fuss we make of it.

Upamanyu Chatterjee

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Topics

LifeFunnyTimeDeathLookDark

I've sold my soul for freedom. It's lonely but it's sweet.

Melissa Etheridge

FreedomSoulSweetLonelyMy Soul

I counterfeited Mark Kostabi's artworks. During the eighties, Mark didn't paint his own paintings. Instead, he had other artists painting them, and he just added his signature. So what I did was to use some of the same painters, and signed his name myself.

Andy Behrman

MyselfPaintingNameSamePaintOwn

I'm trying to get the terrorist out of the bugaboo category and into the category of a fellow human being.

John Updike

TryingHumanOutHuman BeingGet

I love hip hop, and I have a bunch of urban songs I write for fun that I can't put on my albums because people would laugh and point.

Sia

LoveFunPeopleLaughWritePoint

After my grandfather's plane took enemy fire, he was denied permission to land at the first available airstrip. In that classic British bureaucratic way, they said he had to go back to your own airbase in the Midlands. They crashed between the coast and the airfield.

Tom Hooper

FireBackEnemyGoSaidGrandfather

I grew up horseback riding. That was my passion. I didn't start shopping until about 16 or 17, when I could drive myself to stores and explore on my own.

Mary-Kate Olsen

PassionMyselfShoppingDriveStart

Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.

Mason Cooley

NatureSocietyGarbageHumanItself

Pace judgement is everything in the hour record. If you can ride 16.1 or 16.2-second laps constantly for 221 laps, and not go 15.9s or 16.4s, it's keeping it on the line every lap, lap after lap.

Bradley Wiggins

RideYouGoEverythingLinePace

I'm so busy and there's so much going on, that the gym or a workout can't be a last minute thought, like, 'I have nothing to do today I'm going to go to the gym.' Now it's, 'When am I going to find time to work out tomorrow?'

Alison Sweeney

WorkTodayTimeTomorrowBusyGym

Every soldier, every cop who's faced with a decision to make, a life or death, does the best he or she can.

Peter T. King

LifeDecisionBestDeathSheCop

For much of the final decade of the 20th century, one story regularly dominated the news across much of the developed world. It was the unravelling of the marriage between the heir to the British throne and his beautiful, charismatic princess, Diana.

Penny Junor

MarriageBeautifulWorldStoryNews

If you put stimulus into an economy, you know there is a time lag in terms of depending where you invest it. If it's family transfers, it might be quick. If it's infrastructure, it might be two, three, five years.

Sharan Burrow

FamilyTimeYouKnowThreeEconomy

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Upamanyu Chatterjee