Quotes About Vittachi

#1. The only means by which field-grade officers can expect a promotion is combat.

Oakley Hall

#2. Stories are wonderful, enjoyable, and scrumptious things. In the old days, they were served on thin plates called pages. You ate them with your eyes. And they didn't go down to your tummy, like normal food. No, they went into a dream machine inside your head.

Nury Vittachi

#3. I'm not asking much,' he said. 'Only a miracle. Can you do this?'
Wong looked down at the briefing papers in front of him for a moment. Then he looked at Tambi in the eye. 'Miracles we have fifteen per cent extra surcharge. Is it okay?

Nury Vittachi

#4. Between 50 and 75% of entering freshmen at large Catholic universities typically identify themselves as believing and practicing Catholics. Only 25-50% of graduating seniors do the same.

Peter Kreeft

#5. Not for the first time, Joyce lamented the lack of irony in conversations in Asia.

Nury Vittachi

#6. Satyagraha thrives on repression till at last the repressor is tired of it and the object of satyagraha is gained.

Mahatma Gandhi

#7. In fact everything can become a sort of meditation, because in everything there are two dimensions - just as there are in the first breath: the outer and the inner.

Rajneesh

#8. A fine way to capture a piece of the magic of a unique city. The drama, the charm and the beauty of Hong Kong is all here-just as is its breathless energy.

Nury Vittachi

#9. I just want to keep doing things completely different from the other. I just want to keep working with great people, great filmmakers and great actors and just building on that experience.

Christopher Egan

#10. You can leave Hong Kong, but it will never leave you.

Nury Vittachi

#11. Yes, life is hard, but it's not a bad way to pass the time. When all is said and done, I recommend it.

Nury Vittachi