Deshpande Quotes

#1. You better peel your eyes out so you don't miss a thing, alright!

Kazue Kato

#2. I have what I like to call a 'chinneck.' My chin just flows rather easily into my neck.

Matthew Perry

#3. Never affirm, always allude: allusions are made to test the spirit and probe the heart.

Umberto Eco

#4. I don't like to call myself a feminist writer. I say I'm a feminist, but I don't write to propagate an ism,

Shashi Deshpande

#5. To overcome your fear of death, you have to move from 'the world ends with me' to 'the world goes on without me'. It is a great leap, the biggest step a human can take.

Shashi Deshpande

#6. Of course I believe in free enterprise but in my system of free enterprise, the democratic principle is that there never was, never has been, never will be, room for the ruthless exploitation of the many for the benefit of the few.

Harry S. Truman

#7. The liberation of Iraq was part of a broader effort to seriously confront the greatest threat to world security: rogue states capable of obtaining long range weapons of mass destruction.

Armstrong Williams

#8. Successful writers learn at last what they should learn at first,
to be intelligently simple.

Josh Billings

#9. A friend ... showed me the kitchen in her new home with the words, "This is my office." I knew what she meant. This is where I do the work I want to, the work I like and enjoy.

Shashi Deshpande

#10. After the rain cometh the fair weather.

Aesop

#11. Women without men, I realized then, are totally different creatures.

Shashi Deshpande

#12. My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough.

Lance Armstrong

#13. Self-revelation is a cruel process. The real picture, the real you never emerges. Looking for it is as bewildering as trying to know how you really look. Ten different mirrors show you ten different faces.

Shashi Deshpande

#14. When I think about you, I get a rush. I wanna meet my Ms.Anonymous ...

Bobby V

#15. Surely there comes a moment in every human's life when he or she says, like the Sibyl - I wish to die.

Shashi Deshpande

#16. Things can never be as they were. It's astonishing how we comment on change, as if change is something remarkable. On the contrary, not to change is unnatural, against nature.

Shashi Deshpande

#17. We met at Nirang Kaka's son's wedding,' Leshu prattled on. 'It was such a set-up Amu, what to tell you! Asha Kaki introduced us at the salad counter and by the time we reached the sweet dish, I knew...I just knew it inside my heart ki he was the one.

Nikita Deshpande

#18. The most important thing I think we need to remember is that we're a work in progress. Do not be ashamed or afraid to ask for help. That's what I did. I asked for help.

Carnie Wilson

#19. It's funny, people who have a lot of sexual energy think of themselves as being not spiritual. They are probably more spiritually inclined. All that sexual energy is kundalini.

Frederick Lenz

#20. It's not just that life is cruel, but that in the very process of our birth we submit to life's cruelty

Shashi Deshpande

#21. The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.

Bodhidharma