Quotes About Expression

I wanted to write a book specifically aimed toward young people. I wanted to write a book that anybody can read and enjoy, but I did want to aim it at young people and, even more specifically, urban young people.

When I do music I don't think about urban music, pop or country, I just think about a good song.

Probably I look different in different get-ups, so I can pass off as an urban and rural character, hopefully with the same kind of conviction.

I feel like I don't fit in. There's not a lot of outlets for urban music, for black artists who don't have that crossover thing going early on.

Urban breakbeat has become the mood of the '90s, like rap was in the '80s.

When you say rap or Hip Hop, people expect it to be just urban or black. And I don't really feel like you should really put a face on it.

It is everyone's story. We are ashamed of our native language, be it Punjabi or Urdu. If you make mistakes while speaking your native languages, no one will say anything. But if you say one word incorrect in English, people will treat it like a crime.

I speak Hindi fluently because my mother speaks only in Hindi and Urdu.

I do play tennis in shorts, I have driven across the length and breadth of the country from Khardung La pass to Kanyakumari in my beloved Ambassador car, and I did compile my 100 Lyrics book, inspired by Lyrics by Sting. I don't subscribe to any definition of an Urdu poet.

I feel French is very close to Urdu. Both languages are beautiful. Sadly, their beauty is lost in translation.

The Urdu or Hindustani language we use isn't popular in theatre these days. It was a language that was being used in cinema from the 1950s until the '80s. It is a very communicative language.

I can manage in six languages - Marathi and Gujarati, in addition to Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi and Bangla.

I feel Urdu and Punjabi are quite similar and therefore, I mostly make my songs in Punjabi.

I speak Urdu quite a lot, too, and I read a lot of Persian.

I want to learn how to speak Urdu. I find it very interesting and soothing to ears. It is very poetic too.

For a poet, it will be terrible if there are no women. He will not have anything to write about.

Being a writer means you get to live vicariously through your characters

Gender roles suck, " says Swift Fox.Then you should stop playing them, thinks Toby.

I love women more on canvas than real life, for they seldom change on canvas!

The only benefit a woman can have in talking too much is defeating a man who troubles her too much.

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry is to a woman.

A kiss can be a comma a question mark or an exclamation point. That's a basic spelling that every woman should know.

All women's dresses are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.

I dress for women - and I undress for men.