Quotes - Aniruddh Sudharshan (Madras, 25, India) Showing 1-13 of 13

#1

“Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.”
― Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time

tags: humor

10162 likes

#2

“Things growing to themselves are growth's abuse:
Seeds spring from seeds and beauty breedeth beauty;”
― William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis

7 likes

#3

“There are worse forms of prostitution than whoring.
-Inspector John Rebus”
― Ian Rankin, Strip Jack

tags: life

9 likes

#4

“Good humor may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in society.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray, Sketches and Travels, Etc.

tags: dress, good-humor, society

1230 likes

#5

“Bond always mistrusted short men. They grew up from childhood with an inferiority complex. All their lives they would strive to be big - bigger than the others who had teased them as a child. Napoleon had been short, and Hitler. It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.”
― Ian Fleming

tags: 007, bond, height

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#6

“Bond reflected that good Americans were fine people and that most of them seemed to come from Texas.”
― Ian Fleming, Casino Royale

tags: international-relations

68 likes

#7

“Unfortunately most ways of making big money take a long time. By the time one has made the money one is too old to enjoy it.”
― Ian Fleming, Goldfinger

tags: money

51 likes

#8

“A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.”
― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

tags: bookshop, bookstore, discworld, read, reading

1488 likes

#9

“But sometimes when you are getting nowhere, you have to give the wasps' nest a wallop”
― Benjamin Black

tags: life-lessonslife, philip-marlowe, raymond-chandler

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#10

“He was the first prime minister in a long time who did not have a son or a son-in-law in business or real estate”
― Sanjaya Baru, The Accidental Prime Minister

tags: baru, india, leadership, manmohan-sngh, politics

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#11