Top 100 Quotes About Vikram
#1. Don't squeak at me, little sister," said Vikram irritably. "Let me choose my own final deed, so the angels have something impressive to write down on the last page of my book.
G. Willow Wilson
#2. But Vikram had seen through every facet, holding me against the light as if I truly were translucent, and instead of making me feel as if I had been looked through and found wanting, I felt . . . seen.
Roshani Chokshi
#3. Is there a reason why you seek every opportunity to annoy me?"
"It's fun. Your scar flashes when you frown. It almost looks like a dimple," said Vikram. "I'm still waiting for your face to turn red with anger. It might make you look like you're blushing. Or perhaps I am making you blush?
Roshani Chokshi
#4. It was Vikram Bhatt and 'Raaz' that got me interested in the medium of cinema. Before that, I was like any other youngster dabbling with various things - modelling, films - without a definite direction or focus. Now that I'm working with all of them, life has come full circle for me.
Bipasha Basu
#5. Vicious and sweet," said Vikram, shaking his head. "Beastly girl."
"You like me, don't lie," I teased.
"I couldn't lie if I tried," he said quietly.
Roshani Chokshi
#6. When I stepped outside, Vikram blinked a couple of times.
"You are surprisingly lovely."
"You are unsurprisingly insulting.
Roshani Chokshi
#7. Vikram hated fear. He hated how it fed on him and stripped away his comfortable blindness. Fear forced him to hold up the contents of his heart to the light.
Roshani Chokshi
#8. I wish you happiness, Vikram Singh." "And I you, meraa dost - my greatest friend.
Renee Ahdieh
#9. Instinctively, I shoved Vikram behind me and brought out the dagger.
Roshani Chokshi
#10. What I saw in Vikram's gaze rooted me to the spot:
understanding. Those secrets had coaxed a shadowed part of us to step into the light. Understanding felt like a hand reached for and found in the dark. No one had ever looked at me that way because no one, until now, could.
Roshani Chokshi
#11. -we wish you-"
"-a tale-"
"-worth telling."
"Not luck?" asked Vikram.
The gate heaved with wet laughter.
"-what good is-"
"-such a thing.
Roshani Chokshi
#12. If you think of India in the 1980s, there weren't many writers in English around. The ones that were there, Amitav Ghosh or Vikram Seth, were living abroad or publishing from abroad.
Pankaj Mishra
#13. Love makes a person go down on his /her knees ~ Meera says looking at her elder brother Vikram's elated face .
Ashwini Gopalkrishnan
#14. Vikram's eyes widened. "What's this? Praise from Her Beastliness in the morning? Are you under a curse that makes you friendly before noon? If so, how do we make it permanent?
Roshani Chokshi
#15. All translations are made up" opined Vikram, "Languages are different for a reason. You can't move ideas between them without losing something
G. Willow Wilson
#16. Your good friends can write a book on you; but Your best friends can create an embarrassing full fledged 3 hours movie on you, with silliest jingles and animation made ever.
Vikrmn
#17. I need you forever, for you are my teddy.
Vikrmn
#18. Hurting a softhearted caring person would please you but loss is yours; you would have friends less one.
Vikrmn
#19. Let your feelings dream, dreams act, actions speak.
Vikrmn
#20. Perfection is pure action that comes with zeal to excel.
Vikrmn
#21. In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.
Vikram Seth
#22. Trying something different won't ensure that you would be liked by everyone. Still.. Go on..
Vikrmn
#23. His hope was cold. Poisonous. Eclipsing. And he
fed it anyway, the way someone feeds something out of habit simply because there is nothing else in their life worth growing.
Roshani Chokshi
#24. Life is all about Takeaways from great people and Giveaways to the needy ones.
Vikrmn
#25. Idea-less steps and step-less ideas are greatest wastes.
Vikrmn
#26. I love writing. Given a choice, after directing for all these years, and if given an army of talented directors, I would not direct at all.
Vikram Rohit Shetty
#27. Who said I won't fail? I might. Who said I might give up? I won't.
Vikrmn
#28. True war isn't philosophical."
"All war is philosophical. That's why we call it war. Strip it of its paint and it's nothing more than murder.
Roshani Chokshi
#29. The past is the past, and he can't make amends, only hope that the gain will outlast the damage.
Vikram Seth
#30. In a painting, you can't make out whether the artist painted the left eye before the right eye. In Chinese calligraphy, you can see the progression of the artist's stroke.
Vikram Seth
#31. I'm not a mouse or a tigress, she thought, I'm a hedgehog.
Vikram Seth
#32. Quietly they moved down the calm and sacred river that had come down to earth so that its waters might flow over the ashes of those long dead, and that would continue to flow long after the human race had, through hatred and knowledge, burned itself out.
Vikram Seth
#33. The future is simple. The future is simple, I can hold it i the palm of my hand; and the present is just a matter of endurance, detachment, and a sense of humor.
Vikram Chandra
#34. Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
Vikram Seth
#35. Oh, no said her mother sadly. You know nothing of the pettiness of women. When brothers agree to split a joint family they sometimes divide lakhs of rupees worth of property in a few minutes. But the tussle of their wives over the pots and pans in the common kitchen
that nearly causes bloodshed.
Vikram Seth
#36. So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.
Vikram Seth
#37. Friendship is Divine; think anything, get everything. (10 Alone; Vikrmn)
Vikrmn
#38. My main motivation is not to get bored. I'm just hoping I get a vaguely maverick reputation.
Vikram Seth
#39. One religion, one civilisation, above all is Love and Humanity, respectively.
Vikrmn
#40. Life goes on.. no matter you are happy or not.. no matter you want someone to be happy or not.
Vikrmn
#41. Never ever let anyone take the charge of your Guitar called LIFE. Tune your Dreams, for you are the composer of the tracks of your life. Why do you wait? What are you scared of?
Vikrmn
#42. You are not smoking cigarette, it's cigarette that is smoking you.
Vikrmn
#43. Ram-fication of Ravan-ous thoughts is what Dussehra all about.
Vikrmn
#45. At the end of the life you have to live your day alone and vice-versa.
Vikrmn
#46. Of course, a law that is selectively used is in one aspect even worse than a law that is generally used because it puts a lot of power in individuals' hands and makes government a rule, not of laws, but of people.
Vikram Seth
#47. We both were there, but alone. "Bye," she said and left; I was alone; again, one more time.
Vikrmn
#48. All you who sleep tonight Far from the ones you love, No hand to left or right, An emptiness above
Know that you aren't alone. The whole world shares your tears, Some for two nights or one, And some for all your years.
Vikram Seth
#49. Black and white is refuge of colors from their own nullity.
Vikrmn
#50. God save us from people who mean well.
Vikram Seth
#51. Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant.
Vikram Seth
#52. Dear though the reader might be, I'd be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.
Vikram Seth
#53. Doesn't matter if you can dream it or not, all that matters is if you can begin it or not? Take that first step.
Vikrmn
#54. Stop admiring the view," he said.
"Critiquing it."
"What do you find lacking? "
"Honor."
"Alas. I must have misplaced it.
Roshani Chokshi
#55. Be the one for others who they can look up to; the one you too want to.
Vikrmn
#56. It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.
Vikram Seth
#57. A friend with seed (capital), is a business-man in deed.
Vikrmn
#58. Don't put things off till it's too late. You are the DJ of your fate.
Vikram Seth
#59. CA means Can-do Attitude. I may fail, but I would not give-up because I believe I can. I am a Chartered Accountant.
Vikrmn
#60. Best Quote of the day: Don't just sit and read the Quote of the day; Implement it.
Vikrmn
#61. If somebody writes clearly, you can pretty much tell immediately if something is shallow or deep, whereas if they write with all this duckweed on the surface, you can't tell if the stream is one inch deep or a hundred fathoms.
Vikram Seth
#62. I don't want to talk too much about the nitty-gritty of writing. It's rather like a pressure cooker with a certain amount of pressure in it - the more you let out, the less you cook.
Vikram Seth
#63. It hurts deeper is when somebody you love becomes someone you loved.
Vikrmn
#64. Sometimes you do not find because you seek too much. Relax. There is so much more than you even dream of. You know only a small, finite corner of the vast, limitless, unknown domain called life. There is so litlle you can do.
Vikram Joshi
#65. Contra: Why don't you trust me honey? Wait, rather I doubt that you are in a going around.
Vikrmn
#66. After 'A Suitable Boy,' I didn't write anything, not even a short story. I thought to myself: 'I ought to start writing.' But I can never force myself to write.
Vikram Seth
#67. If you were to ask me to pick my favourite author, well, there are so many of them, I'd really just have to say the first names that came to mind, and I'm sure that I'll later think 'Oh, I should have mentioned that one.'
Vikram Seth
#68. Say your heart out.. work that dream out.. for the time won't be back again.
Vikrmn
#69. Time spent for temporary happiness like movie or outing or weekend on a beach is all synthetic; with shelf life of a day or two. Work for your bigger dreams that should last for whole life. Then movie and beach would seem more interesting, realising that you have done something.
Vikrmn
#70. If you put the government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there'd be a shortage of sand. - Milton Friedman
Vikram Mansharamani
#71. Live in the NOW. Live life to its fullest. Don't spend more than 10% of your time learning from the past, and 20% planning for the future. Live in the present, act NOW to fulfill the dreams you plan.
Vikrmn
#72. Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored
Vikram Seth
#73. I tend to follow a scattershot approach to reading a lot of very diverse subjects interest me, and I'm quite happy to read stuff on any of them.
Vikram Seth
#74. Wow! So beautiful. Which star? Planet, not star; It WAS called Earth.
Vikrmn
#75. Dream? What it is? If you realise it, it's everything; if not, continue the slumber.
Vikrmn
#76. With the touch of wisdom, comes the end of fears.
Vikrmn
#77. And an equation is the same whether it's written in red or green ink
Vikram Seth
#78. And sometimes both of them forgot that what they were undergoing amid the clink of cutlery and crockery was a mutual interview that might decide whether or not they would own a common set of those items some time in the whimsical future.
Vikram Seth
#79. Each point in the universe must make up its own mind on the question of acknowledgement before acknowledgement can be considered universal.
Vikram Seth
#80. Say Thanks" is sometimes more important than "Say Cheese".
Vikrmn
#81. If I'm compelled to do something, I don't shy away from it simply because I haven't tackled it before.
Vikram Seth
#82. Challenge yourself today, to improve, for a better tomorrow than yesterday.
Vikrmn
#83. If educated ones would behave like illiterates, how the nation would end corruption?
Vikrmn
#84. One of the way to get attention is to write a book titled, How to get attention.
Vikrmn
#85. Dreams you sow, happiness shall you reap.
Vikrmn
#86. Early in my investment-banking career, I realized I was on a path that others had set out for me.
Vikram Chatwal
#87. The first step to success is knowing that you failed to do something because many people don't even realise. Second step is to take a first step towards making your dreams true.
Vikrmn
#88. You are known by the thoughts you seed.
Vikrmn
#89. Genuinity is mother of stupidity.
Vikrmn
#90. There are so many simple things getting unnoticed in me, it makes me feel I am a robot!
Vikram Roy
#91. The problem with too beautiful a view is that it's alright for the mulling stage. But for the writing stage, you want to be somewhere without a view, especially if it is very different from what you're writing.
Vikram Seth
#92. The emptiness that fills in when once-the-beloved says, Who are you?
Vikrmn
#93. Doing differently what's already done is old and boring. Do something new, that's yet to be done.
Vikrmn
#94. Be a master of your dreams, not the slave of your sorrows.
Vikrmn
#95. Too many trees are killed to print the words of people who may not have all that much to say, and authors and journalists are equally culpable in this regard.
Vikram Seth
#96. Complex means simply difficult.
Vikrmn
#97. No one else can understand you better than you yourself.
Vikrmn
#98. I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.
Vikram Seth
#99. Ow, that hurts! It hurts like being in Connecticut!
S.J. Kincaid
#100. Stupidity of proving yourself when not required is itself a proof of stupidity.
Vikrmn
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