Tejpal Quotes

#1. And, while I may not live to live them/ Rest assured, ladies and gentlemen/
For I have lived more than most/
By just dreaming..."
- Dreams, Dreams by Mansi Tejpal

Mansi Tejpal

#2. A team doesn't win the championship if its players are working from different agendas.

John C. Maxwell

#3. The year is round! The wheel of the world must spin! That is why up here they dance the Dark Morris, to balance it. They welcome the winter because of the new summer deep inside it!

Terry Pratchett

#4. As a friend often said, India is a gymkhana club, where the people have the votes, but the politicians and the bureaucrats have the membership.

Tarun J. Tejpal

#5. Sorrow must not be cultivated: it is a poor lifestyle choice.

Tarun J. Tejpal

#6. Fizz had a phrase for those manic occasions when you scaled every final peak, fell off the other side and passed out. Mightysatiety. The oblivion of maximum pleasure.

Tarun J. Tejpal

#7. It was here I learnt that corporate principles and military principles are basically the same. Insulation. Illusion. Hype. Activity.

Tarun J. Tejpal

#8. It is characteristic that this should take place just when it is becoming more and more clear to all who think about the matter, that technically and economically we have left the territorial state behind us.

Christian Lous Lange

#9. Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers' suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions and unwanted children.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

#10. I love a book which never ends in my head, even though- a thousand times, it has been read!

Mansi Tejpal

#11. You are not the one you see in the
mirror. You are the one who is
shining in the eyes of others

Tarun J. Tejpal

#12. But Mr. Elton had only drunk wine enough to elevate his spirits, not at all to confuse his intellects.

Jane Austen

#13. We went to places where we felt - like all lovers - that we were the first.
We discovered the body of a lover has secrets that never end.
We discovered that at times the same secrets reveal different truths.

Tarun J. Tejpal

#14. Hi. There was a big accident, some people got decapitated, here are their names ... You know what? That shirt really makes you look fat. I mean, the colour's all wrong ... I mean, who shot the drapes?

Colin Mochrie

#15. Tears don't make you a girl, but they sure make you human.

Mansi Tejpal

#16. While she was no radical, no natural breaker of rules, no seeker of the bold statement, she was in her own serene way uncaring of convention and others' opinions.

Tarun J. Tejpal

#17. Contrary to what most people say and believe, the simplicity is a great thing, i actually believe in - complexity is a fantastic thing and complex things should be approached in a complex way.

Tarun J. Tejpal

#18. Being in a state of mystery seems to be my calling.

Luci Shaw

#19. There's nobody to believe in anymore, nobody to trust.

Alan King

#20. Love is not the greatest glue between two people. Sex is.

Tarun J. Tejpal

#21. I think the foundation at Berkshire [Buffett's stake in Berkshirewill pass to the Buffett Foundation upon his death] will be a plus because there will be a continuation of the culture. We'd still take in fine businesses run by people who love them.

Charlie Munger

#22. As long as any group within the society deliberately maintains its identity it is, or should be, a fair target for satire - both for its own good and for the society's.

Gore Vidal

#23. I'm not knocking conceptual art; it's another department, but it doesn't move me like painting.

Paul Simonon

#24. I was still madly in love with her when I left her but the desire had died, and not all the years of sharing and caring and discovering and journeying could keep me from fleeing.

Tarun J. Tejpal

#25. Hi-def is merely the latest in a string of evolutional leaps that have transformed the way we sit slumped in front of a box wishing we were dead.

Charlie Brooker

#26. Who can ever hold the essence of fire?
Who can ever know the alchemy of desire?

Tarun J. Tejpal

#27. When I go for a project, I wonder what underpinning a project will have that's going to give the audience some emotional access to it.

Robert Redford

#28. Am I the girl/ Whose giggle crinkles her big eyes/ Or the woman whose small eyes/ Crinkle her vision?

Mansi Tejpal

#29. I knew now there was no such thing as a biblioblackhole.
Everything written truly lived.
Every real word. Every real story.
You had to find your words. You had to find your story.

Tarun J. Tejpal

#30. The pinnacle of human consciousness must be the rejection of unhealthy competition, war and violence.

Bryant McGill

#31. The way I view the works, they're more like feelings than anything else.

Kesh