Top 100 Vikram's Quotes
#1. Love makes a person go down on his /her knees ~ Meera says looking at her elder brother Vikram's elated face .
Ashwini Gopalkrishnan
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. I don't read as much as people may expect. In fact, sometimes I feel that I should probably read more, but then I do believe that one of the big problems of our times is that there's too much reading and not enough thinking.
Vikram Seth
#5. Contra: Why don't you trust me honey? Wait, rather I doubt that you are in a going around.
Vikrmn
#6. When the world falls asleep, authors weave the stories that are called dreams.. and when authors dare to jot down.. that's called making dreams come true.
Vikrmn
#7. It's not the gods But our own hearts We need to fear. The evil starts Against all odds Not there but here.
Vikram Seth
#8. Did you steal that fruit? " I asked.
"Of course. I want nothing more than to steal apples. I've also always manifested the ability to travel through time, and at night I turn into a beast and only your kiss can break the - "
"I get it. That's a no.
Roshani Chokshi
#9. Suppose it's your last day on earth. Have you done what all you wanted to do, you always dreamt of? If answer is NO, your time starts now.
Vikrmn
#10. Let's not call cancer patients as patients, they are cancer fighters. They are brave hearts.
Vikrmn
#11. Of course, the greater one's need, the greater one's propensity to be mesmerized.
Vikram Seth
#12. Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person's power. Be just to yourself.
Vikram Seth
#13. Ow, that hurts! It hurts like being in Connecticut!
S.J. Kincaid
#14. 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
#15. Doing differently what's already done is old and boring. Do something new, that's yet to be done.
Vikrmn
#16. 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
#17. And an equation is the same whether it's written in red or green ink
Vikram Seth
#18. Dream? What it is? If you realise it, it's everything; if not, continue the slumber.
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. 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
#27. To create a new belief is easy but to understand and improve someone's concept and to develop it for good is difficult.
Vikram Roy
#28. There is only one way to success.. and only one person can lead you there.. that's YOU.
Vikrmn
#29. In life's brief game to be a winner
A man must have ... oh yes, above
All else, of course, someone to love.
Vikram Seth
#30. I certainly think it's very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should talk about things that matter to them.
Vikram Seth
#31. Gift the children corruption free nation. Happy Children's day.
Vikrmn
#32. LIFE and YOU : What YOU exactly want from LIFE, it'll never give. LIFE gives for sure, but in pieces. It's YOU who have to assemble, all that LIFE ponders, according to your needs. It's YOU who have to realise how you can get what YOU exactly want.
Vikrmn
#33. Do not write if there is no tremendous urge to do so. At the heart, there must be an inspiration or muse or one of those old-fashioned things. Else, why bore yourself, destroy other people's interest and kill trees?
Vikram Seth
#34. I know from an editor's point of view or a publisher's point of view it's easier to slot me into a particular niche. But I know that I'd be bored unless I wrote a book that in some senses was a challenge.
Vikram Seth
#35. Strength is not only about winning the game; it's also about not giving-up.
Vikrmn
#36. CA study course in India is not the toughest study course. It's for them who are the toughest, the determined ones. I am a Chartered Accountant.
Vikrmn
#37. If someone breaks up, it's an opportunity to revamp yourself; this time better and stronger than before.
Vikrmn
#38. If you kill the Ravana in you, it's like killing the healthy cells along with cancer cells. Guru with Guitar. Happy Dussehra.
Vikrmn
#39. Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives rather than gymnastics of style or literary trends. It's a certain kind of academic who undervalues realism, largely because it is not amenable to endless exegesis.
Vikram Seth
#40. Talk only if it's worth, else it harms your worth only.
Vikrmn
#41. Having created a business that is a success, when you are in a nepotistic situation, people who don't do anything themselves, well, it is easy for them to say it's never good enough.
Vikram Chatwal
#42. Character depends on characters. Few people are character. Other's should try to opt one but they don't, they lose.
Vikram Roy
#43. One sock can't house two feet. If it does, it's of no use.
Vikrmn
#44. Let's fall, or rather rise, in Love.
Vikrmn
#45. I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
Vikram Seth
#46. I think if something is worth doing, it's worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.
Vikram Seth
#47. Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.
Vikram Seth
#48. My father is quite conservative and religious, and he's been wanting me to get married since I was 15.
Vikram Chatwal
#49. Austerity, if I were to define, I'll say, It's YOU.
Vikrmn
#50. Being lucky is in your hands as it's outcome of your deeds.
Vikrmn
#51. Music used to be a lot more about angst for me. Now it's the only form of meditation I do.
Vikram Chatwal
#52. Who said I won't fail? I might. Who said I might give up? I won't.
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. 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
#65. Life goes on.. no matter you are happy or not.. no matter you want someone to be happy or not.
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. 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
#77. Dear though the reader might be, I'd be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.
Vikram Seth
#78. It hurts deeper is when somebody you love becomes someone you loved.
Vikrmn
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. Best Quote of the day: Don't just sit and read the Quote of the day; Implement it.
Vikrmn
#82. 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
#83. Don't put things off till it's too late. You are the DJ of your fate.
Vikram Seth
#84. A friend with seed (capital), is a business-man in deed.
Vikrmn
#85. 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
#86. Be the one for others who they can look up to; the one you too want to.
Vikrmn
#87. Stop admiring the view," he said.
"Critiquing it."
"What do you find lacking? "
"Honor."
"Alas. I must have misplaced it.
Roshani Chokshi
#88. 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
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. God save us from people who mean well.
Vikram Seth
#92. Black and white is refuge of colors from their own nullity.
Vikrmn
#93. 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
#94. We both were there, but alone. "Bye," she said and left; I was alone; again, one more time.
Vikrmn
#95. 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
#96. At the end of the life you have to live your day alone and vice-versa.
Vikrmn
#98. Ram-fication of Ravan-ous thoughts is what Dussehra all about.
Vikrmn
#99. You are not smoking cigarette, it's cigarette that is smoking you.
Vikrmn
#100. 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
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