Top 100 Vikram-betal Quotes
#1. 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
#2. There are so many simple things getting unnoticed in me, it makes me feel I am a robot!
Vikram Roy
#3. Genuinity is mother of stupidity.
Vikrmn
#4. You are known by the thoughts you seed.
Vikrmn
#5. 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
#6. Early in my investment-banking career, I realized I was on a path that others had set out for me.
Vikram Chatwal
#7. Dreams you sow, happiness shall you reap.
Vikrmn
#8. One of the way to get attention is to write a book titled, How to get attention.
Vikrmn
#9. If educated ones would behave like illiterates, how the nation would end corruption?
Vikrmn
#10. Challenge yourself today, to improve, for a better tomorrow than yesterday.
Vikrmn
#11. If I'm compelled to do something, I don't shy away from it simply because I haven't tackled it before.
Vikram Seth
#12. Say Thanks" is sometimes more important than "Say Cheese".
Vikrmn
#13. Each point in the universe must make up its own mind on the question of acknowledgement before acknowledgement can be considered universal.
Vikram Seth
#14. 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
#15. And an equation is the same whether it's written in red or green ink
Vikram Seth
#16. With the touch of wisdom, comes the end of fears.
Vikrmn
#17. Dream? What it is? If you realise it, it's everything; if not, continue the slumber.
Vikrmn
#18. Wow! So beautiful. Which star? Planet, not star; It WAS called Earth.
Vikrmn
#19. 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
#20. Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored
Vikram Seth
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. Say your heart out.. work that dream out.. for the time won't be back again.
Vikrmn
#25. 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
#26. Stupidity of proving yourself when not required is itself a proof of stupidity.
Vikrmn
#27. There is only one mother in this world who is the best one; the one that every kid has got.
Vikrmn
#28. The only person standing between your dreams and your success is none but YOU.. so all you need is to push YOURSELF.. Towards your goals.. to make it happen.
Vikrmn
#29. And the process of reading is such a private one. I once came into a room where a friend of mine was reading one of my books, and he clicked his tongue impatiently and shooed me off.
Vikram Seth
#30. The success is like an umbrella. It has wires in it called faith. It has no meaning if there is no rain and storm called ebbs and flows of life.
Vikrmn
#31. How do you feel? "
"Like I will die if I don't eat this apple."
He considered this. "Then why don't you bite it? See what happens."
"Are you mad? "
"I prefer curious.
Roshani Chokshi
#32. Forget the pain and the one who caused it, but not the lesson you learnt.
Vikrmn
#33. Wherever his faltering mind,
unsteadily wanders,
he should restrain it
and bring it under self-control
Krishna, the mind is faltering,
violent, strong, and stubborn;
I find it as difficult
to hold as the wind.
Vikram Seth
#34. Either you learn from or you are taught by; the PEOPLE.
Vikrmn
#35. Basically, my mother couldn't hold a tune and when I was a baby, a rather tactless baby, I would ask her not to sing ... you can't get to sleep if someone is singing off key nearby.
Vikram Seth
#36. Happiness is.. rising in LOVE in spite of gravity; falling is old fashioned.
Vikrmn
#37. I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
Vikram Seth
#38. Every Vision has its own rainbow.
Vikrmn
#39. 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
#40. Ow, that hurts! It hurts like being in Connecticut!
S.J. Kincaid
#41. 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
#42. I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.
Vikram Seth
#43. No one else can understand you better than you yourself.
Vikrmn
#44. Complex means simply difficult.
Vikrmn
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. Be a master of your dreams, not the slave of your sorrows.
Vikrmn
#49. Doing differently what's already done is old and boring. Do something new, that's yet to be done.
Vikrmn
#50. The emptiness that fills in when once-the-beloved says, Who are you?
Vikrmn
#51. 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
#52. Life goes on.. no matter you are happy or not.. no matter you want someone to be happy or not.
Vikrmn
#53. One religion, one civilisation, above all is Love and Humanity, respectively.
Vikrmn
#54. My main motivation is not to get bored. I'm just hoping I get a vaguely maverick reputation.
Vikram Seth
#55. Friendship is Divine; think anything, get everything. (10 Alone; Vikrmn)
Vikrmn
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
Vikram Seth
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. I'm not a mouse or a tigress, she thought, I'm a hedgehog.
Vikram Seth
#62. 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
#63. The past is the past, and he can't make amends, only hope that the gain will outlast the damage.
Vikram Seth
#64. 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
#65. Who said I won't fail? I might. Who said I might give up? I won't.
Vikrmn
#66. 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
#67. Idea-less steps and step-less ideas are greatest wastes.
Vikrmn
#68. Life is all about Takeaways from great people and Giveaways to the needy ones.
Vikrmn
#69. 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
#70. Trying something different won't ensure that you would be liked by everyone. Still.. Go on..
Vikrmn
#71. In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.
Vikram Seth
#72. Perfection is pure action that comes with zeal to excel.
Vikrmn
#73. Let your feelings dream, dreams act, actions speak.
Vikrmn
#74. Hurting a softhearted caring person would please you but loss is yours; you would have friends less one.
Vikrmn
#75. I need you forever, for you are my teddy.
Vikrmn
#76. 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
#77. Contra: Why don't you trust me honey? Wait, rather I doubt that you are in a going around.
Vikrmn
#78. 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
#79. It hurts deeper is when somebody you love becomes someone you loved.
Vikrmn
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. Best Quote of the day: Don't just sit and read the Quote of the day; Implement it.
Vikrmn
#83. 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
#84. Don't put things off till it's too late. You are the DJ of your fate.
Vikram Seth
#85. A friend with seed (capital), is a business-man in deed.
Vikrmn
#86. 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
#87. Be the one for others who they can look up to; the one you too want to.
Vikrmn
#88. Stop admiring the view," he said.
"Critiquing it."
"What do you find lacking? "
"Honor."
"Alas. I must have misplaced it.
Roshani Chokshi
#89. 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
#90. Dear though the reader might be, I'd be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.
Vikram Seth
#91. 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
#92. God save us from people who mean well.
Vikram Seth
#93. Black and white is refuge of colors from their own nullity.
Vikrmn
#94. 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
#95. We both were there, but alone. "Bye," she said and left; I was alone; again, one more time.
Vikrmn
#96. 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
#97. At the end of the life you have to live your day alone and vice-versa.
Vikrmn
#99. Ram-fication of Ravan-ous thoughts is what Dussehra all about.
Vikrmn
#100. You are not smoking cigarette, it's cigarette that is smoking you.
Vikrmn
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