Dullness Quote by Bharati Mukherjee Download Open image “Dullness is a kind of luxury.” — Bharati Mukherjee ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dullness Kind Luxury
You see for me, America is an idea. It is a stage for transformation. I felt when I came to Iowa City from Calcutta… — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
The picture of Mother Teresa that I remember from my childhood is of a short, sari-wearing woman scurrying down a red gravel path between… — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“It's making life important, making a single life important, rather than having a prescription for the global ills which afflict us.” — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
I truly appreciate the special qualities that America and American national myths offer me. — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
I flew into a small airport surrounded by cornfields and pastures, ready to carry out the two commands my father had written out for… — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
In Hindu societies, especially overprotected patriarchal families like mine, daughters are not at all desirable. They are trouble. And a mother who, as mine… — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
One of the early tip-offs to me about the enormous changes that were going on with being in a Bangalore house, home, where the… — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
I am aware of myself as a four-hundred-year-old woman, born in the captivity of a colonial, pre-industrial oral culture and living now as a… — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Mother Teresa's detractors have accused her of overemphasizing Calcuttans' destitution and of coercing conversion from the defenseless. In the context of lost causes, Mother… — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
I had never walked on the street alone when I was growing up in Calcutta, up to age 20. I had never handled money.… — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“Love on the decline is hard to tell from love on the rise.” [From 'The Lady from Lucknow']” — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
The United States exists as a sovereign nation. 'America,' in contrast, exists as a myth of democracy and equal opportunity to live by, or… — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
You can, I think, have a quiet and steady protagonist and not run the risk of terminal dullness as long as exciting things happen… — Liz Williams Copy Share Image
The number one problem in academia today is not ignorant students but ignorant professors, who have substituted narrow "expertise" and "theoretical sophistication" (a preposterous… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I envy Pete Sampras's dullness. I wish I could emulate his spectacular lack of inspiration. — Andre Agassi Copy Share Image
Although the primitive in art may be both interesting and impressive, as portrayed in American fiction it is conspicuous for dullness alone. Drab persons… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
I think what we call the dullness of things is a disease in ourselves. Else how could anyone find an intense interest in life?… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The psychic plane is clouded over by emotions and thoughts and the general dullness and malaise that develops in our contemporary world through the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Discipline in typography is a prime virtue. Individuality must be secured by means that are rational. Distinction needs to be won by simplicity and… — Stanley Morison Copy Share Image
