Thanks to the greatest invention of recent years, the MP3-playing alarm clock, I can now choose the song that wakes me up in the morning.
India needs to be liberated both from the 'high GDP growth hedgehogs' and the 'conservation at all costs hedgehogs.'
The future infrared space telescope will cover that area in a much more efficient manner.
I love to work with people and do what I love.
That's what sort of fascinates me - what's funny as well as what's sad.
The unfolding of a story is both as exciting and as difficult for each and every novel I've written, regardless of time and place.
As a little girl, I had huge fantasies about music.
I have been blessed with a good, fun, and wonderful life, but I've also seen a whole lot of pain.
I don't believe in pitfalls. I believe in taking risks and not doing the same thing twice.
I would gamble on two cockroaches coming out of the carpet, which would come closer, that's what a sick gambler does.
Because my musical training has been limited, I've never been restricted by what technical musicians might call a song.
Generally speaking, it has been my ambition to write as a good old nurse will speak when she tells fairy tales.
That is such a lie, and by our friend, mr. Miranda, who has been lying to us since we hired him….
I don't think being a Muslim or being a non-Muslim has been an advantage or disadvantage.
It's two sides to everybody. I'm a manager - I'm a promoter - and I'm a fighter, so it is two sides to me. That's a balance there.
Below the navel there is neither religion nor truth.
A clear conscience laughs at false accusations.
The winner has many friends, the loser has good friends.
A fool's tongue is long enough to cut his own throat.
Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.
When the sky falls we'll all catch larks.
He that is warm thinks all so.
Silence was never written down.
If you would shoot a general, shoot his horse first.
With money, a dragon - without it, a worm.
Silence is the voice of complicity.
Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old yours will be new.
If the mountain won't come to mohammed, mohammed must go to the mountain.
Before telling secrets on the road, look in the bushes.
The eye that sees all things else, sees not itself.
