Arvind Quotes & Sayings

A writer observes you far sharply than others and therefore you find your traits in a book. — Arvind Parashar

Send me to jail in 48 hours if I am corrupt. — Arvind Kejriwal

Constitution is for the people, people are not for the constitution. Change it for the betterment of the common man. — Arvind Kejriwal

Where did all the money go? The Aam Aadmi wants to know. — Arvind Kejriwal

In my head, the 5 issues of A Spoon Too Short comprise one novel: a 100 page graphic novel sequel to Douglas' two Dirk books, taking some of the ideas he was working on before he died, and a whole bunch of new stuff from me and a little from Max Landis (who is the Executive Producer on the book as well as writing the forthcoming TV series). — Arvind Ethan David

Who is an aam aadmi? AAP believes that the middle class is part of the aam aadmi, anyone who is tired of this corrupt system is aam aadmi. — Arvind Kejriwal

Dirk Gently has been a long passion (my career started with Douglas Adams and my stage adaptation of Dirk Gently) . — Arvind Ethan David

You can't afford to hate politics. The politics of this country is democracy. Democracy is by the people, of the people and for the people. The day people stop taking active part in the politics of this country, democracy will not survive. — Arvind Kejriwal

If you fall in love with a writer, find your story in a book some day. — Arvind Parashar

If I take donations from Big Corporates to fund our election campaign, I'll be accountable to them and would have to do what they tell me to do after winning elections. But if I take donations from common people to fund our Election Campaign, after winning, I'll be accountable to them — Arvind Kejriwal

With trembling eyes, Like a caged bird, From behind the picket-fence, She watched you go. — Arvind Krishna Mehrotra

Whatever we say here today is not against any party or person. We are not here to do politics. I have not stood up here to save a government ... we want swaraaj, the people's rule, in Delhi. — Arvind Kejriwal

Parents are the biggest culprit. In a bid to make their child score high marks, they are willing to indulge in practices that are unethical, like buying projects. They do not realise that such attempts will not make their child brighter or think over ideas. — Arvind Gupta

In failure, you begin to lose friends. In success, you lose most of them. — Arvind Parashar

I love religion but I don't need it for votes. — Arvind Kejriwal

It is of course daunting to make ones public debut in a new format, particularly with a well loved character, and in a medium as much scrutinized by the web-o-sphere as comics ... But I had the comfort of having great editors at IDW (Chris Ryall and Denton Tipton) and I knew whatever I wrote, Ilias would make me look good. — Arvind Ethan David

Rule number one: your accounts must always present a true and factual picture of your business operations.' 'And what's the other rule?' asked Arvind. 'Rule number two is to occasionally forget rule number one. — Ashwin Sanghi

It was altogether a different story now. Abhilasha started coming out of the cold aloofness which had become her second nature, while for Arvind, it was like 'fiddle found a melody'. He was in love with his life again. With their growing intimacy, came the desire to meet each other. And at last it materialised when they fixed a date for meeting. The long awaited day came. A sleepless night of nervous apprehension, culminated at dawn, as Abhilasha could no longer lie down. While there was much excitement at the prospect of meeting him but the possibility of a probable mismatch between the real Arvind and the virtual one, loomed large on her mind, making her feel nervous. — Chitralekha Paul

Now that we are born, let us live in a trance. — Arvind Parashar

Life at times, gives the most unexpected and shocking outcome for the most ordinary person, leading to extraordinary tales. — Arvind Parashar

There is more sexy-stuff a coming in this book, though ... This ain't your grandmother's Dirk Gently. — Arvind Ethan David

If I had campaigned for it, Arvind Kejriwal would have become the chief minister of Delhi. — Kisan Baburao Hazare

Gandhiji used to say, 'True democracy is not run by twenty people sitting in Delhi. The power centres now are in capital cities like Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata. I would like to distribute these power centres in seven lakh villages of India. — Arvind Kejriwal

Good teachers must inspire children to work hard - make projects and give them good marks even if genuine projects look crude and unprofessional. — Arvind Gupta

For better or worse, I've become the person the Adams Estate has entrusted to guide Dirk Gently into new mediums and to new audiences. I take that responsibility pretty seriously, which is, I'm guessing, where Ilias's comment about me being a "hands-on collaborator" (code for control freak) comment comes from. — Arvind Ethan David

Education cannot be a matter of charity, Education has to be a matter of Right. — Arvind Kejriwal

bad luck. That is because what you focus — Arvind Devalia

You are criticizing me for my fashion statement. My wife keeps on criticizing me for my blank bank statement — Arvind Kejriwal

I wanted wherever possible to lean into the comic form and do things in the story telling that could only be done in comics and which pay homage to the many strands of comic and visual storytelling tradition. — Arvind Ethan David

I think it crucial to recognize that you can't straightforwardly "adapt" Douglas Adams. Douglas's genius was uniquely his own. What I've tried to do here, and in every other version, is to be true to the character and the Adams' tone and approach to narrative, his unique brand of word-play and "idea-play" humor. — Arvind Ethan David

I've always wanted to write comic books, my earliest memories are of waiting for Dad to come home from work, and, secreted in his lawyer's leather briefcase, would be comics from the store. — Arvind Ethan David

The concept of "the chosen people" is thus turned, in the plastic hands of Hinduism, into the "choosing people" - Hindus choose the gods they worship. — Arvind Sharma

Growing up in Malaysia and England, there wasn't an obvious route into the comics world, so my creative energy went into theatre and prose and then movies and TV. — Arvind Ethan David

If tonight is my last, I would run towards the sea, wildly swim the tides, the jump up the hills, flounder the cliffs and take all big strides, for I am a wanderer, awed by nature's charm who would love to breathe his last in its embracing arms. — Arvind Parashar

Will make Delhi a corruption-free , world class city. — Arvind Kejriwal