Quotes On R K Laxman

#1. Circumstances makes a thing poison or nectar. There is nothing absolute good or bad.

Amit Ray

#2. Where there is union in fundamentals, there ought to be union in affections.

Thomas Watson

#3. Against spin, my god, he is really a murderer

V. V. S. Laxman

#4. The beauty of reality-based art - art underwritten by reality hunger - is that it's perfectly situated between life itself and (unattainable) "life as art".

David Shields

#5. Intellectual force is qualitatively the first and foremost productive force, and concern for its rapid growth should be the ardent concern of all classes.

Maxim Gorky

#6. AB de Villers is the most complete player of the Modern Era

V. V. S. Laxman

#7. For 20 years, I faced 'Get Outs' (by publishers), did not sell copies of my books, but I kept on trying. Junoon hona bahut zaruri hai, aur thoda sa pagalpan bhi (Passion is important, so is a bit of craziness).

MINT
New Delhi
2nd May, 2016

Laxman Rao

#8. Searching for new ideas is an endless process.

R. K. Laxman

#9. The reason why Indian bowling has done exceptionally well in this World Cup is MS Dhoni. When we wrote them off, he kept supporting them. When they were struggling, only he was standing by his bowlers.

V. V. S. Laxman

#10. He has that uniqueness to respond to a tough situation with ease. He does not involve himself much emotionally, and that's his quality. India are lucky to have a captain like Dhoni.

V. V. S. Laxman

#11. It's easy to be a backseat driver. It's even easier to be a backseat driver when you're not even in the same car.

Rick McCallum

#12. I get to fish a lot of wild and wonderful places on tour.

Adrian Smith

#13. So far as I am concerned, I am not at all aware that there indeed exists a serious side as well to my cartoons drawn in an inspired mood of mischievous abandon.

R. K. Laxman

#14. What politics is all about today. Blah-blah-blah. The day that stops and the quality of our leaders improve, I will have to retire and go away.

R. K. Laxman

#15. You invited me here to slay dragons, did you not? Well. That's what I'm trying to do.

Rick Yancey

#16. The modern film tries too hard to be real. Its techniques of illusion are so perfect that it requires no contribution from the audience but a mouthful of popcorn.

Raymond Chandler

#17. Nothing will be resolved here. Nothing is ever resolved without war. It is the way of the universe.

Marianne Curley

#18. The companies that I really admire the most are the ones that have a deep visceral understanding of why people use their service, and they figure out ways of making money that are completely consistent with how people are feeling and what they are doing at the time.

Ben Silbermann

#19. I have not forgotten that you can see the world through pieces of coloured glass.

R. K. Laxman

#20. As a child I drew objects that caught my eye outside the window of my room - the dry twigs, leaves and lizard-like creatures crawling about, the servant chopping firewood and, of course, and number of crows in various postures on the rooftops of the buildings opposite.

R. K. Laxman

#21. here George Eliot had progressed through the bookshelves. Roland saw her black silk skirts, her velvet trains, sweeping compressed between the Fathers of the Church, and heard her firm foot ring on metal among the German poets. Here

A.S. Byatt

#22. Left-wing zealots have often been prepared to ride roughshod over due process and basic considerations of fairness when they think they can get away with it. For them the ends always seems to justify the means. That is precisely how their predecessors came to create the gulag.

Margaret Thatcher

#23. If you're always a giver, give yourself a break. Take time for yourself; your well-being is at stake. If you're always a receiver, try a turn at giving. Experience for yourself one of the joys of living.

Elsie Hillman-Gordon

#24. There are some things that I like, like education, wine, and I'd like to be a good cook, although I'm a pretty good eater now.

Rick Wagoner