Balakrishnan Quotes & Sayings

Falling head over heals for Hunter would more than make up for all the bad that had come before him, because he wouldn't have it any other way. — Rochelle Paige

I wished for impossible things. It was never going to have been a fairy tale for us. There are no fairy tales about two princesses. — Erin Bow

If I took a month off, I was likely to be replaced by one of the other, say, two hundred freelancers vying to get my assignments. If I took six months off to have a baby, I believed I would be written off by my editors. I was in a man's profession. — Lynsey Addario

I was recruited by the former Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong. And I never forgot his key message to me when he was encouraging me to come in. He said: "You must hold fast to your values. If you have to compromise your values in order to join us, you lose your value to us." — Vivian Balakrishnan

How much do you want? Do you want three meals in a hawker centre, food court or restaurant? — Vivian Balakrishnan

Blondie pressed the gun into him even harder. "I'm gonna count to one," the man said into his ear. "Just one. — James Dashner

You are a child of the universe
Come to choose how to live here.
You are a child of the universe
Loved beyond measure. — Jay Woodman

Triumphant capitalism has unleashed a powerful drive toward inequality, not improvement, in the social sphere. — Herbert Schiller

If you want to dance on a bar top, some of us will fall off the bar top. Some people will die as a result of liberalising bar top dancing ... a young girl with a short skirt dancing on it may attract some insults from some other men, the boyfriend will start fighting and some people will die. — Vivian Balakrishnan

But the most reliable indication of the future of Open Source is its past: in just a few years, we have gone from nothing to a robust body of software that solves many different problems and is reaching the million-user count. There's no reason for us to slow down now. — Bruce Perens

Eternity is not a super-abundance of time, but timelessness. — Vijay Balakrishnan

I was so scared of doing the wrong thing I hardly ever did the right thing. Vic — Joe Hill

You better find out what you want in life, because that's what you're going to get! — James Kirkwood Jr.

Significantly opening up immigration to skilled workers solves two problems. The companies could hire the educated workers they need. And those workers would compete with high-income people, driving more income equality. — Alan Greenspan

While 9 Songs is sexually explicit in the basic sense, its directness is what's most fascinating, and ultimately most moving, about it. — Stephanie Zacharek

I durst not laugh for fear of opening my lips and receiving the bad air. — William Shakespeare